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Bass Strait

  [bas]
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–noun
a strait between Australia and Tasmania. 80–150 mi. (130–240 km) wide.
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Bass Strait   (bās)   
A channel between Tasmania and southeast Australia connecting the Indian Ocean with the Tasman Sea. Its discovery in 1798 by the British explorer George Bass (died c. 1812) proved that Tasmania was not part of the Australian continent.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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