NEW NAMES TO MAP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 24, 14 November 1944, Page 5

NEW NAMES TO MAP

WAR ADDITIONS WASHINGTON. J A 10-colour wail map of Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands, which will supplement the October issue of the National Geographic Magazine, contains four new names that are used for the first time on a general map. Armchair strategists need no longer worry about the name of the sea between the. Philippines and the Marianas recently hotly contested expanse of the. Pacific. Admiral Nimitz named it the Philippine Sea. Other new names are "The Slot," descriptive of the narrow channel that separates tlie two island chains of the Solomon Islands north of Guadalcanal; the Solomon Sea s between, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea; and ' tho Bismarck Sea } bounded by the Bismarck Archipelago and New Guinea. The new map, on a transverse Mercator projection, centres on the Philippines. Important islands are keyed and presented in 16 enlarged insets. For instance. Ponape Island in the Carolines, on the main map ? is only about as big as the eraser of a pencil. In the. inset the rcef,rimmed island is large, enough to show its haffcours, villages and even its highest elevations. Six other insets are large-scale drawings of the ports of Shanghai Hong Kong 5 Singapore, Manila Soerabaja } and Davao, which may spring into the. headlines at. any time as United Nations forces move north and west over the face of eastern seas.