Steffen Street

Steffen-Straße English Steffen Strait
Connects waters	Bismarcksee
with water	Pacific
Separates land mass	New Hanover
of land mass	New Ireland
Data
Geographical location	2 ° 40 ′  S , 150 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 2 ° 40 ′  S , 150 ° 37 ′  E
length	50 km
Smallest width	1 km
Islands	Baudisson Island , Manne Island , Selapiu Island , Butei Island

The Steffen Strait ( English Steffen Strait ) is a sea strait about two kilometers wide and thirteen kilometers long that lies in the Kavieng district of the New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea and connects the Bismarck Sea with the Pacific Ocean .

The strait is surrounded by an archipelago during the German colonial era street islands called, between the larger islands Lavongai ( German New Hanover , English New Hanover ) and New Ireland is located. These islands include Baudisson Island , Manne Island , Selapiu Island and Butei Island , among others . The islands are located directly on the strait and narrow it to a width of just under two kilometers.

The strait was named in 1875 by Georg von Schleinitz , the first governor of the New Guinea Company in what would later become the German colony. It is named after the chief helmsman Steffen, who was wounded by the natives by throwing a javelin. When it was first discovered in 1767 by the British navigator and explorer Philipp Carteret , the Strait of the Sea was named Byron Strait , which is now used for the strait west of Selapiu.

literature

Keyword Steffenstrasse. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 403 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boyd D. Peterson, William R. Garren, Charles M. Heyda: Gazetteer of Papua New Guinea: names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names . United States. Defense Mapping Agency, United States Board on Geographic Names, 1982, p. 478 (Accessed June 10, 2020).