Vitiaz Strait

Vitiaz Strait
Vitiaz Strait
Coordinates6°S 148°E / 6°S 148°E / -6; 148
Typestrait

Vitiaz Strait is a strait between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula, northern New Guinea.

The Vitiaz Strait was so named by Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai to commemorate the Russian corvette Vitiaz in which he sailed from October 1870 by way of South America and the Pacific Islands reaching Astrolabe Bay in September 1871.

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