Tassafaronga Point
Tassafaronga Point is a point on the north shore of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The Battle of Tassafaronga, one of several naval engagements fought in the waters north of the island during the World War II Guadalcanal Campaign, took its name from this point.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: point on the north shore of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
- Also known as: “Tasavaronga”, “Tassafarong Point”, and “Tassafarongo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kokumbona and White River.
Kokumbona
Village
Kokumbona is a village on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. It was a Japanese base during World War II and the site of a United States Marine Corps amphibious landing on 19 August 1942.
White River
Suburb
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
White River is a suburb on the fringe of Honiara, Solomon Islands and is located 3 kilometres west of the main center on the Tandai Highway. White River is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi.
Tassafaronga Point
- Category: landform
- Location: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-9.36844° or 9° 22′ 6″ southLongitude
159.86429° or 159° 51′ 51″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
6R2XJVJ7+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 9734785128OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tassafaronga Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tasivarongo Point”
- Chinese: “塔薩法朗加角”
- Chinese: “塔薩法隆加角”
- Czech: “Mys Tassafaronga”
- Japanese: “タサファロンガ岬”
- Persian: “تاسافارونگا”
- Swedish: “Tassafaronga Point”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tassafaronga Point”. Photo: Nash Belarus, CC BY-SA 3.0.