Muli Strait
| Muli Strait | |
|---|---|
| Selat Muli (Indonesian) | |
 Yos Sudarso Island and the Muli Strait | |
  Muli Strait Location within Western New Guinea | |
| Location | South Papua, Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 7°49′23.23″S 139°0′43.74″E / 7.8231194°S 139.0121500°E |
| Type | strait |
| Etymology | Princess Marianne of the Netherlands |
| Basin countries | Indonesia |
Muli Strait (Indonesian: Selat Muli, formerly Salat Moeli), also called the Marianne Strait (Dutch: Straat Marianne), is a narrow, winding strait in the Indonesian province of South Papua.[1] It separates Yos Sudarso Island (formerly Frederik Hendrik Island) from the New Guinea mainland to the east.[2][3]
The Dutch naval officer Dirk Hendrik Kolff charted the strait's north-western entrance in 1825–1826 and, taking it for a river, named it the Dourga River; its south-eastern entrance was charted as the St. Bartholomew River.[4] The waterway was confirmed to be a strait in 1835, cutting off the south-western extremity of New Guinea,[4] and was renamed after Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, a Dutch naval officer[a] having sailed through it on her birthday.[1]
At the strait's southern end, Bensbach Creek separates Komoran Island from Yos Sudarso.[1]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ Sources differ on the officer involved in the 1835 passage. Kolff's account names Lieutenant Kaal as proving the waterway to be a strait, while the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië credits Lieutenant Langenberg Kool with renaming it.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 de Graaff, S.; Stibbe, D. G., eds. (1919). "Prinses Marianne (Moeli) Straat". Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië (in Dutch). Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
- ↑ "Selat Marianne". GeoNames. Retrieved 27 June 2026.
- ↑ "Frederik Hendrik-eiland". Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (in Dutch). 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2026 – via Ensie.
- 1 2 Kolff, Dirk Hendrik (1840). "Chapter XIX". Voyages of the Dutch Brig of War Dourga, through the Southern and Little-known Parts of the Moluccan Archipelago, and along the Previously Unknown Southern Coast of New Guinea, Performed during the Years 1825 & 1826. Translated by Earl, George Windsor. London: James Madden – via Project Gutenberg.
Further reading
[edit]- Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J., ed. (2018). Met de Triton en Iris naar Nieuw-Guinea: De reisverhalen van Justin Modera en Arnoldus Johannes van Delden uit 1828. Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging (in Dutch). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. ISBN 978-94-6249-308-7.