🚤 Endeavour Strait

Australia · Oceania · 10.78°S, 142.29°E

The Endeavour Strait is a strait running between the Australian mainland Cape York Peninsula and Prince of Wales Island in the extreme south of the Torres Strait, in northern Queensland, Australia. It was named in 1770 by explorer James Cook, after his own vessel, HMS Endeavour, and he used the strait as passage out to the Indian Ocean on his voyage.

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Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Coordinates (approx.)	10.78°S, 142.29°E · view on map

Endeavour Strait is located in Australia, in Oceania.

More straits in Australia

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

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