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Vitiaz Strait
The 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 RussiancorvetteVitiaz in which he sailed from October 1870 by way of South America and the Pacific Islands reaching Astrolabe Bay in September 1871.