Vitiaz Strait
Strait in Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vitiaz Strait is a strait between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula, northern New Guinea.[1][2]
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.[3]