Brumer Islands
| Brumer Islands | ||
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| Waters | Coral Sea | |
| Geographical location | 10 ° 45 ′ S , 150 ° 23 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 5 | |
| Main island | Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua | |
| Total land area | 4.1 km² | |
| Residents | 160 (2000) | |
The Brumer Islands are a group of islands in the Coral Sea . Politically, they belong to the Milne Bay province in the southeastern area of Papua New Guinea . The islands are located off the southeast coast of New Guinea , 10 km from the South Cape.
Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua (2.49 km²), also called West Brumer Island, is the westernmost island in the group. Bonarua is long and narrow, the island stretches for 14 km from northeast to southwest. It is densely forested with coconut palms and other trees. The soil is fertile. Bananas and sugar cane are grown in large, fenced fields . There is a beacon on the highest point in the west of the island, at 120 m. Harikoia, the second largest island (1.32 km²) is east of Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua, it is up to 165 m high. The other islands in the group, including Ahana Rock, are located southeast of Harikoia.
At the time of the 2000 census, the population of the only village on the main island, Bonarua, was 160.
history
The first Europeans were the Spaniards of the expedition of Luís Vaz de Torres , who mapped the islands in the summer of 1606 as Mira Como Vas (Eng. "Look how you go.").
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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 147 (accessed February 19, 2011)
- ↑ Brumer Island Light ARLHS PAP-005 Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (accessed February 19, 2011)
- ↑ Bonarua, Province: 05 Milne Bay, District: 01 Alotau, LLG: 06 Suau Rural, Ward: 03 Bonarua, Census Unit: 005 ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Justo, Zaragoza: Descubrimientos de los españoles en el Mar del Sur y en las costas de la Nueva Guinea. In: Boletín de Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid , t.IV. 1st semestre, Madrid 1878: 60.