Sebakor Bay
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| name = Sebakor Bay
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| location = South East Asia
| pushpin_map = Indonesia West Papua#Indonesia Western New Guinea
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| type = Bay
| inflow = Ceram Sea
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| basin_countries = Indonesia
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Sebakor Bay ({{langx|id|Teluk Sebakor}}), is a bay on the west of Bomberai Peninsula in Province of West Papua.[https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-3737644&fid=2551&c=indonesia Teluk Sebakor: Indonesia] National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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 Vaez de Torres on 30 October 1606. Sebakor Bay was charted by the Spaniards as Bahía Bermeja (Reddish Bay in Spanish). 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 {{ISBN|070221275X}} {{ISBN|978-0702212758}} Sabakor is the name of the tribal troops from this region under the influence of Narawatu of the Kaimana Kingdom for fighting Hongi wars (Hongitochten).{{cite journal | last=Usmany | first=Desy Polla | title=SEJARAH RAT SRAN RAJA KOMISI KAIMANA (History of Rat Sran King of Kaimana) | journal=Jurnal Penelitian Arkeologi Papua Dan Papua Barat | volume=6 | issue=1 | date=2017-06-03 | issn=2580-9237 | doi=10.24832/papua.v6i1.45 | pages=85–92 | url=https://jurnalarkeologipapua.kemdikbud.go.id/index.php/jpap/article/view/45/0 | language=id | access-date=2021-04-24| doi-access=free }}
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Category:Landforms of Western New Guinea