D’Entrecasteaux Channel

D’Entrecasteaux Channel, inlet of the Tasman Sea, extending northeast for about 35 miles (55 km) between Bruny Island (east) and the southeast coast of mainland Tasmania, Australia, to merge with the River Derwent estuary. It was sighted in 1642 by the Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman and was surveyed in 1792 by the French admiral Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, who proved it to be a channel rather than a bay. It is known locally as The Channel....