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Vitiaz Strait is a strait between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula, northern New Guinea.〔George R. Cresswell 2000 'Coastal currents of northern Papua New Guinea, and the Sepik River outflow' ''Marine Freshwater Research'' 51 pp 553–64 at p 553〕〔Walter Zenk, Gerold Siedler, Akio Ishida, Jürgen Holfort, Yuji Kashino, Yoshifumi Kuroda, Toru Miyama, Thomas J. Müller 2005 'Pathways and variability of the Antarctic Intermediate Water in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean' ''Progress in Oceanography'' 67 pp 245–281 at p 247, see map at Fig.2(a) p 248〕 The Vitiaz Strait was so named by Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai to commemorate the Russian corvette ''Vitiaz'' in which he sailed from October 1870 by way of South America and the Pacific Islands reaching Astrolabe Bay in September 1871.〔( R. W. de M.-Maclay, 'Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1846 - 1888)', "Australian Dictionary of Biography" )〕 ==Hydrography== The 1200 m deep Vitiaz Strait "was a focus of attention by Australian and USA oceanographers on voyages in 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991 and 1992 as part of the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study, WEPOCS".〔George R. Cresswell 2000 'Coastal currents of northern Papua New Guinea, and the Sepik River outflow' ''Marine Freshwater Research'' 51 pp553–64 at 553〕 The New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent transports "high-salinity, low-tritium, high-oxygen, low-nutrient water from the Solomon Sea northwestward along the north coast of Papua New Guinea through the Vitiaz Strait".〔M. Tsuchiya, R. Lukas, R. A. Fine, E. Firing, E. Lindstrom, 1989 'Source waters of the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent.' ''Progress in Oceanography'' 23, pp 101–47 at p 101〕 However, the surface layer current running through the strait, the New Guinea Coastal Current, experiences a seasonal reversal. In boreal summer (northern hemisphere summer) characterized by the south-easterly monsoon, the westward current dominates; during boreal winter (northern hemisphere winter) under the influence of the northwesterly monsoonal winds, the eastward flow dominates.〔Yoshifui Kuroda 2000 Variability of Currents off the Northern Coast of New Guinea ''Journal of Oceanography'' 56 pp 103-116 at p 107〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vitiaz Strait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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