Geelvink Bay penetrates 125 miles southward into the western arm of New Guinea. Its entrance, some 155 miles wide, is protected by several islands; its shores are well wooded, flat, and fertile, but unhealthy. The bay is separated by a narrow isthmus from the Alfora Sea on the south, and by a still narrower isthmus from M'Clure Gulf on the west.
Geelvink Bay
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 122
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