Sebakor Bay

Sebakor Bay
Indonesian: Teluk Sebakor
Sebakor Bay
Location South Asia
Coordinates 03°35′00″S 132°50′00″E / 3.58333°S 132.83333°E / -3.58333; 132.83333Coordinates: 03°35′00″S 132°50′00″E / 3.58333°S 132.83333°E / -3.58333; 132.83333
Type Bay
Primary inflows Ceram Sea
Basin countries  Indonesia

Sebakor Bay (Indonesian: Teluk Sebakor), is a bay on the west of Bomberai Peninsula in northern Province of Papua.[1]

Karas and Semai islands are in the bay.

History

First recorded sighting by Europeans of Sebakor Bay and Karas Island was by the Spanish expedition of Luís Vaez de Torres on 30 October 1606. Sebakor Bay was charted by the Spaniards as Bahía Bermeja (Reddish Bay in Spanish). [2]

References

  1. ↑ Teluk Sebakor: Indonesia National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
  2. ↑ Hilder, Brett The voyage of Torres: the discovery of the southern coastline of New Guinea and Torres Strait by Captain Luis Baéz de Torres in 1606, University of Queensland Press, 1980, pp.114,115 ISBN 070221275X ISBN 978-0702212758
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