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Bismarck Sea

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A sea of the southwestern Pacific north of Papua New Guinea's mainland, enclosed by the Bismarck Archipelago and named for the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck during the era of German colonial claims in the region. It was the site of a major Allied naval and air victory in 1943.

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