Etna Bay (, ) is a bay in eastern
Kaimana Regency
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, situated in the southeastern corner of
West Papua province,
Indonesia
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.
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Kaimana
Kaimana is a district and a small port town in West Papua, Indonesia, and the capital of the Kaimana Regency. The district had a population of 44,332 in mid-2022, while the town had 16,718 and Krooy (the other ''kelurahan'' in the district) had ...
is located to the west of Etna Bay. Etna Bay is geographically part of the administrative area of the
Etna Bay District
Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily.
Etna or ETNA may also refer to:
Places
United States
*Etna, California, a city
*Etna, Georgia, a village
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in Kaimana Regency.
The
Etna Bay languages are spoken in the area.
[Peckham, Lloyd. 1991. ''Etna Bay survey report: Irian Jaya Bird’s Neck languages''. ''Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures'' 10: 147–185.] The bay got its name from the
Etna expedition.
See also
*
Etna Bay languages
References
Bays of Indonesia
Landforms of Western New Guinea
Landforms of West Papua (province)
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