Blanche Bay
Blanche Bay is a bay near Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The bay is named after HMS Blanche, which surveyed the bay under the command of Captain Cortland Simpson in 1872.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: Bay in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Abit Nata”, “Blanche-Bai”, and “Blanchebucht”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tavurvur and Vulcan.
Tavurvur
Volcano
Photo: Taro Taylor, CC BY 2.0.
Tavurvur is an active stratovolcano near Rabaul, on the island of New Britain, in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on the eastern rim of the larger feature.
Vulcan
Volcano
Vulcan is a pumice cone in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on its western rim. Its most recent eruption was in 1994, when it and another vent, Tavurvur, forced the city of Rabaul to be temporarily abandoned and the local administrative centres of East New Britain Province to be moved to a new capital, Kokopo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rabaul.
Rabaul
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rabaul is the former provincial capital of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. It was evacuated and nearly destroyed in 1994 when the nearby volcano Tavurvur erupted.
Blanche Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.26389° or 4° 15′ 50″ southLongitude
152.19068° or 152° 11′ 26″ eastOpen location code
6R7JP5PR+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 4954136923OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2099340Wikidata ID
Q15199677
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Blanche Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Blanche Bay (luuk sa Papua New Guinea)”
- Cebuano: “Blanche Bay”
- Chinese: “布兰奇湾”
- French: “Blanche Bay”
- German: “Blanche Bay”
- Japanese: “ブランチェ湾”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include WWII Gun and Japanese WWII Bunker.
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