Baudisson Island
| Baudisson Island Baudissin Island (former name) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | New Ireland | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| width | 1 km | |
Baudisson Island is an island that belongs to the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea . Administratively it is part of the Kavieng District . The approximately one square kilometer island is five kilometers west of Cape Masala , the extreme western foothills of New Ireland , the main island of the province. It is about 1 km wide, 1.1 km long and predominantly flat land with andesitic elevations of coral limestone .
Furthermore, there is the island just north of the bigger man Iceland and separated by the two-kilometer wide strait Steffen Strait east of Selapiu Iceland . Baudisson Island, as well as the surrounding smaller islands between Lavongai ( German Neuhannover , English New Hanover ) and New Ireland, were called road islands in the German colonial era . There is a plantation on the island.
The island was named Baudissin Island during the German colonial era .
literature
Keyword Baudissin Island. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume I, p. 144 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boyd D. Peterson, William R. Garren, Charles M. Heyda: Gazetteer of Papua New Guinea: names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names . United States. Defense Mapping Agency, United States Board on Geographic Names, 1982, p. 51 (Accessed June 10, 2020).
- ↑ Keyword street islands. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 428 ( online )