Iwa (island)

Iwa
	The Marshall Bennett Islands with Iwa to the northwest.
Waters	Solomon Lake
Archipelago	Marshall Bennett Islands
Geographical location	8 ° 42 ′ S , 151 ° 41 ′ E Coordinates: 8 ° 42 ′ S , 151 ° 41 ′ E
surface	2.87 km²
Residents	766 (2000)

Iwa , also called Jouveney Island , actually Jouvency , is an island in the Solomon Sea . Politically, it belongs to Papua New Guinea .

description

Iwa belongs to the Marshall Bennett Islands and thus to the Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea. The island is located about 200 km from mainland New Guinea and 500 km from Port Moresby , just under 40 km east of Kitava .

It consists of the remains of corals and represents an upscale atoll . Its shape is almost circular, it is about a mile (1.6 km) in diameter and around 1900 it was densely forested.

At the 2000 census, Iwa had 766 inhabitants, making it second among the Marshall Bennett Islands after Gawa . The Obomatu Village archaeological site is located on the island of Iwa.

Trivia

The island is briefly mentioned in the Italian documentary La donna nel mondo (Eng .: All women in the world ) from 1963. According to the film, a retired Scottish colonel, Roger Hopkins, was living on the island at the time with 84 women and 52 children. The film claims the women were between 13 and 18 years old. Hopkins, who was much older than his wives, was introduced as deaf and dumb, but he wore a hearing aid in his right ear during the recording. He is shown smoking a pipe, wearing flimsy European clothing, but no other objects of European origin appear on the island.

Web links

Geoview Info , accessed August 14, 2014.
Volcano Live , accessed August 14, 2014.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d William T. Brigham : Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Hololulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1900, p. 81 . It was named after Jouvency, the geographer of the Espérance , and later printed on nautical charts as Jouveney.
↑ Simon H. Bickler and Baiva Ivuyo: Megaliths of Muyuw (Woodlark Island) . Milne Bay Province, PNG. In: Archeology in Oceania . Vol. 37, No. 1 (Apr., 2002), pp. 22-36. ( JSTOR 40387191 , accessed August 15, 2014).
^ IMDB entry , Italy 1963, director: Gualtiero Jacopetti , production: Cinematografica RI.RE, accessed on 23 August 2014.

[Brigham-1] A ^b ^c ^d William T. Brigham : Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Hololulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1900, p. 81 . It was named after Jouvency, the geographer of the Espérance , and later printed on nautical charts as Jouveney.

[2] Simon H. Bickler and Baiva Ivuyo: Megaliths of Muyuw (Woodlark Island) . Milne Bay Province, PNG. In: Archeology in Oceania . Vol. 37, No. 1 (Apr., 2002), pp. 22-36. ( JSTOR 40387191 , accessed August 15, 2014).

[3] IMDB entry , Italy 1963, director: Gualtiero Jacopetti , production: Cinematografica RI.RE, accessed on 23 August 2014.