🚤 D'Entrecasteaux Channel

Australia · Oceania · 43.22°S, 147.28°E

The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of mainland Tasmania, Australia. The channel forms the estuarine mouth for both the Derwent and Huon Rivers and empties into the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean. It was sighted by Abel Tasman in 1642 and later surveyed in 1792 by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.

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Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Coordinates (approx.)	43.22°S, 147.28°E · view on map

D'Entrecasteaux Channel is located in Australia, in Oceania.

More straits in Australia

Adolphus Channel · Backstairs Passage · Bass Strait · Clarence Strait (Northern Territory) · Dundas Strait · Endeavour Strait · Geographe Channel · Hells Gates (Tasmania) · Hinchinbrook Channel · Investigator Strait.

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