Torres Strait

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 45

(tör'rāz,) about 18 m. broad, divides York Peninsula, the N.E. point of Australia, from the S.E. const of the island of Papua or New Guinea; bet. N. Lat. 9° 20'-10° 40', E. Lon. 142° 30′. [s. 901]