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Ironbottom Sound

"Ironbottom Sound" is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between , , and Florida Island of the , because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the naval actions comprising the Battle of Guadalcanal during 1942–1943.
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Ironbottom Sound

Latitude
-9.25° or 9° 15′ south
Longitude
160° east
Open location code
6V22Q222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6336793337
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q1673110
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Ironbottom Sound” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayron-Botton boğazı”
  • Cebuano: “Iron Bottom Sound”
  • Chinese: “铁底海峡”
  • Chinese: “铁底湾”
  • Chinese: “鐵底海峽”
  • Chinese: “鐵底灣”
  • Czech: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Czech: “Průliv se železným dnem”
  • Czech: “Sealark Sound”
  • Danish: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Dutch: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • French: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • German: “Eisensund”
  • German: “Iron Bottom Sound”
  • German: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • German: “Savo Sound”
  • Hebrew: “איירונבוטום סאונד”
  • Japanese: “アイアン・ボトム・サウンド”
  • Japanese: “アイアンボトム・サウンド”
  • Japanese: “アイアンボトムサウンド”
  • Japanese: “鉄底海峡”
  • Japanese: “鋼鉄海峡”
  • Korean: “아이언바텀 해협”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Norwegian: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Polish: “Cieśnina Żelaznego Dna”
  • Polish: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Portuguese: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Russian: “Айрон-Боттом-Саунд”
  • Russian: “Пролив Железное дно”
  • Russian: “Пролив Железных днищ”
  • Russian: “Пролив с железным дном”
  • Serbian: “Теснац са гвозденим дном”
  • Serbian: “Тјеснац са гвозденим дном”
  • Slovenian: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de la Alondra de mar”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Savo”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho del fondo de hierro”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho del Fondo de Hierro”
  • Spanish: “Ironbottom Sound”
  • Spanish: “Sealark Sound”
  • Ukrainian: “Айронботтом-Саунд”

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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 “Ironbottom Sound”. Photo: Nash Belarus, CC BY-SA 3.0.