Indispensable Strait is a waterway in the Solomon Islands , running about 200 kilometres (108 nmi; 124 mi) northwest-southeast from Santa Isabel to Makira (San Cristóbal), between the Nggela Islands and Guadalcanal to the southwest, and Malaita to the northeast.
2-783: Indispensable Strait is part of the navigation route for merchant shipping from Torres Strait to the Panama Canal . It is one of three major routes for merchant shipping through the Solomon Islands; the routes are the Bougainville Strait and Indispensable Strait, which link the Pacific Ocean, Solomon Sea and Coral Sea ; and the Manning Strait that links the Pacific to New Georgia Sound , which
4-551: Is also known as ‘The Slot’, through which Japanese naval ships resupplied the garrison on Guadalcanal during the Pacific War . The strait was first recorded on European maps after it was encountered by Captain William Wilkinson in the merchantman Indispensable in 1794. 9°00′S 160°32′E / 9.00°S 160.53°E / -9.00; 160.53 This Solomon Islands location article
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