St. George's Canal (Papua New Guinea)

St. George's Canal
Connects waters	Bismarcksee
with water	Solomon Lake
Separates land mass	New Britain
of land mass	New Ireland
	Data
Geographical location	4 ° 31 '39 " S , 152 ° 33' 38" E Coordinates: 4 ° 31 '39 " S , 152 ° 33' 38" E
Coastal towns	Rabaul , Kokopo
Islands	Duke of York Islands , Credner Islands
Peninsulas	Gazelle Peninsula
	The St. George's Canal runs between New Britain and New Ireland from the Solomon Sea to the Bismarck Sea

The St. George's Channel ( English St. George's Channel ) is a strait in the Southwest Pacific .

The strait, named after the sea channel of the same name between Wales and Ireland , lies between New Britain (English New Britain; formerly Neupommern ) and New Ireland (English New Ireland; German formerly Neumecklenburg ) in the Bismarck Archipelago , which is politically part of the state of Papua New Guinea . The Duke of York Islands lie in the channel . The Bismarck Sea borders the canal to the northwest and the Solomon Sea to the southeast .

The first European to sail the St. George's Canal was the navigator , privateer and geographer William Dampier at the beginning of 1700 . Dampier, however, did not go ashore because of the hostility of the inhabitants, refrained from a more detailed exploration of the waters and mistakenly mistook the passage for a bay.

The St. George's Canal was finally named on August 29, 1767 by Philipp Carteret , Seigneur of Trinity, a seafarer from Jersey ( Channel Islands ) on behalf of the British Admiralty.

Individual evidence

↑ Lexicon entry: Neupommern. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume 2, Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 638 ff.
Quote: “Neupommern is the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago belonging to German New Guinea (approx. 34,000 km²) […] It was discovered by Dampier in 1700 and called New Britain, as it is still called in English and French scriptures; For a time in the 19th century the name Birara was common, but it actually only refers to a small area of the island, and in 1885 the island was taken over by the German commissioner v. Örtzen renamed Neupommern. "
↑ Lexicon entry: Neumecklenburg. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume 2, Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1920, pp. 633 ff. Accessed August 1, 2013.
↑ Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal vol. 6, 1841, London English, accessed November 5, 2015
^ Samuel Wallis, 1728–1795 / Philip Carteret, d. 1796 , on Princeton University Library website Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific (accessed October 22, 2015)

literature

Keyword: St. Georgs Canal. Online in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, Volume III, Leipzig 1920, p. 251.

[Kolonial-Lexikon_1920-Neupommern-1] Lexicon entry: Neupommern. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume 2, Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 638 ff.
Quote: “Neupommern is the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago belonging to German New Guinea (approx. 34,000 km²) […] It was discovered by Dampier in 1700 and called New Britain, as it is still called in English and French scriptures; For a time in the 19th century the name Birara was common, but it actually only refers to a small area of the island, and in 1885 the island was taken over by the German commissioner v. Örtzen renamed Neupommern. "

[Kolonial-Lexikon-Neumecklenburg-2] Lexicon entry: Neumecklenburg. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume 2, Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1920, pp. 633 ff. Accessed August 1, 2013.

[3] Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal vol. 6, 1841, London English, accessed November 5, 2015

[4] Samuel Wallis, 1728–1795 / Philip Carteret, d. 1796 , on Princeton University Library website Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific (accessed October 22, 2015)