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Indispensable Strait

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A Directory for the Navigation of the South Pacific Ocean: With Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc., from the Strait of Magalhaens to Panama, and Those of New Zealand, Australia, Etc., Its Winds, Currents, and
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The strait was first recorded on European maps after it was encountered by Captain William Wilkinson in the merchantman
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Findlay's Directory gives the year of discovery as 1790, but this date is in error.
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Indispensable Strait is part of the navigation route for merchant shipping from
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Josef Rick; Rüdiger Wolfrum; Ursula E. Heinz; Denise A. Bizzarro (1991).
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Indispensable Strait between Guadalcanal island and Malaita Island
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and Indispensable Strait, which link the Pacific Ocean,
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Solomon Islands
Santa Isabel
Makira
Nggela Islands
Guadalcanal
Malaita
Torres Strait
Panama Canal
Bougainville Strait
Solomon Sea
Coral Sea
Manning Strait
New Georgia Sound
Guadalcanal
Pacific War
Indispensable
American Neptune
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9°00′S 160°32′E / 9.00°S 160.53°E / -9.00; 160.53
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