Hibernian Islands
Hibernian Islands (English Hibernian Range ) is a collective name coined by Abraham Bristow in 1812 for the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago , which comprise the large islands of New Ireland (formerly Neumecklenbug ) and Lavongai (formerly Neuhannover ) in the east and north at a distance of 25 to 125 Kilometers and over a length of around 630 kilometers, from the Green Islands in the southeast to the St. Matthias Islands in the northwest.
The following islands or archipelagos were included in the Hibernian Islands (from southeast to northwest):
- Green Islands ( Nissan and Pinipel )
- Feni Islands
- Tanga Islands
- Lihir Islands
- Tabar Islands
- Tench (formerly Storm Island )
- St. Matthias Islands (including Mussau and Emirau )
The middle part is known as the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni island chain.
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Johann von Krusenstern : Recueil de Mémoires Hydrographiques pour servir d'Analyse et d'Explication a l'Atlas de l'Océan Pacifique . St. Petersburg, 1827, p. 454 (French).
- ^ Heinrich Schnee (ed.): Hibernian Islands , German Colonial Lexicon, Volume II, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 66.