Dampier Strait
Dampier Strait in Papua New Guinea separates Umboi Island and New Britain, linking the Bismarck Sea to the north with the deeper Solomon Sea to the south.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Dampier Strasse”
Dampier Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-5.59857° or 5° 35′ 55″ south
Longitude
148.20158° or 148° 12′ 6″ east
Open location code
6R6CC622+HJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=strait
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Dampier Strait” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դամպիր”
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Dampier”
- Azerbaijani: “Dampir boğazı”
- Cebuano: “Dampier Strait”
- Chinese: “丹皮爾海峽”
- Czech: “Dampierova úžina”
- Dutch: “Straat van Dampier”
- French: “détroit de Dampier”
- French: “Détroit de Dampier”
- German: “Dampier-Straße”
- German: “Dampierstraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר דמפייר”
- Hebrew: “מצר דמפיר”
- Italian: “Stretto di Dampier”
- Japanese: “ダンピール海峡”
- Japanese: “ダンピア海峡”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Dampiera”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Dampier”
- Russian: “Дампир (Папуа - Новая Гвинея)”
- Russian: “Дампир”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Dampier”
- Swedish: “Dampiersundet”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Dampier”
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