Sebakor Bay (), is a bay on the west of Bomberai Peninsula in Province of West Papua.Teluk Sebakor: Indonesia National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
The Karas Islands, alongside a few smaller islands, are located 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 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).
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