Sebakor Bay (), is a bay on the west of
Bomberai Peninsula
Bomberai Peninsula () is located in the Western New Guinea region. It is south of the Bird's Head Peninsula, and Bintuni Bay separates the two peninsulas. To the west lies the Sebakor Bay and to the south Kamrau Bay. On the southeast Arguni ...
in
Province of West Papua
West Papua (), formerly Irian Jaya Barat (West Irian), is an Indonesian province located in Indonesia Papua. It covers most of the two western peninsulas of the island of New Guinea: the eastern half of the Bird's Head Peninsula (or Doberai P ...
.
Karas and Semai islands are in the bay.
History
First recorded sighting by Europeans of Sebakor Bay and Karas Island was by the Spanish expedition of
Luís Vaz de Torres, Luís Vaez de Torres on 30 October 1606. Sebakor Bay was charted by the Spaniards as ''Bahía Bermeja'' (''Reddish Bay'' in
Spanish
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).
[Hilder, Brett ''The voyage of Torres: the discovery of the southern coastline of New Guinea and Torres Strait by Captain Luis Baéz de Torres in 1606'', University of Queensland Press, 1980, pp.114,115 ] ''Sabakor'' is the name of the tribal troops from this region under the influence of Narawatu of the
Kaimana Kingdom
The Kingdom of Kaimana (Papuan Malay language, Papuan Malay: ''Petuanan Kaimana''; Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) or Kingdom of Sran is one of the oldest Sultanate, Muslim kingdoms in West Papua (province), West Papua, now Indonesia. The kingdom was est ...
for fighting Hongi wars (''Hongitochten'').
References
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Bays of Indonesia
Landforms of Western New Guinea
Landforms of Papua (province)
Islands of Indonesia