The ship fought Japanese forces in and around the Sunda Strait during the collapse of the East Indies.
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In November 1941, HMAS Sydney undertook a mission to escort the troopship Zealandia to the Sunda Strait.
In January plans were made for the Aquitania to transport troops from Australia to Singapore until concern about putting such a large and valued transport loaded with 3,456 troops in range of Japanese air strikes resulted in a plan to transfer the troops to smaller vessels from Aquitania at Ratai Bay in the Sunda Strait.
South Lampung Regency is a regency of Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia, a strip of land lying between the provincial capital of Bandar Lampung and the Sunda Strait, as such its a major transit corridor to/from Java island.