Alcester Islands
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| Waters | Solomon Lake | |
| archipelago | Trobriand Islands | |
| Geographical location | 9 ° 33 ′ S , 152 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
| Main island | Alcester | |
| Total land area | 5.77 km² | |
| Residents | 93 (2000) | |
The Alcester Islands (also Nasikwabw, Tokuna or Toguna) are an island group that belongs to the Trobriand Islands . Politically, they are part of Murua Rural LLG, Samarai-Murua District, Milne Bay Province in the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea .
The group is located 70 km southwest of the Woodlark Islands . The main island of Alcester (5.41 km²) extends over 6.5 km from east to west and is up to 1 km wide. It is 55 m high and densely forested. A good 600 meters from its eastern end is the small and approximately 30 m high island of Tokona (0.35 km² or 35 ha ).
The only village Nasikwabu is on the north coast of the main island of Alcester .
The critically endangered cuscus Phalanger lullulae is endemic to Alcester and the Woodlark Islands. The species was not sighted for decades and was considered extinct before it was rediscovered in large numbers in the 1990s.
The inhabitants of the Alcester Islands speak Misima-Paneati .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 New Guinea Enroute, Guna Isu to Isulailai Point National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, ProStar Publications, Annapolis 2004, ISBN 1-57785-569-8 , p 186 (accessed February 21, 2011)
- ↑ Phalanger lullulae IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4
- ^ M. Paul Lewis (ed.): Misima Paneati, A language of Papua New Guinea Ethnologue: Languages of the World. SIL International, Dallas 2009
Web links
- Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 New Guinea Enroute, Guna Isu to Isulailai Point National Geospatial-intelligence Agency, ProStar Publications, Annapolis 2004, ISBN 1-57785-569-8 .