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- proper noun The channel connecting the
Irish Sea to the north and theAtlantic Ocean to the southwest.
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St George's Channel, through which his ship found a way, between New Britain and New Ireland, from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean, to use the Captain's own words, "is a much better and shorter passage, whether from the eastward or westward, than round all the islands and lands to the northward." [
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