Strait of Malacca
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/3411
- Note
- "The Strait of Malacca (Malay: Selat Melaka, Indonesian: Selat Malaka, Thai: ช่องแคบมะละกา, Tamil: மலாக்கா நீரிணை, Malākkā nīriṇai, Chinese: 馬六甲海峽/马六甲海峡) or Straits of Malacca is a narrow, 890 km (550 mi) stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. As the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, it is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. It is named after the Malacca Sultanate that ruled over the archipelago between 1400 and 1511, the center of administration of which was located in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia." - (en.wikipedia.org 13.09.2020)
- Latitude
- 4
- Longitude
- 100
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Straße von Malaga, 1928
Durch die Straße von Malaga...
Object information
Image: Harzmuseum Wernigerode - CC BY-NC-SA
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