Kawai Islands
Kawai Islands | ||
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Landsat image of the group | ||
Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
archipelago | Torres Strait Islands | |
Geographical location | 9 ° 11 ′ S , 142 ° 0 ′ E | |
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Number of islands | 3 | |
Main island | Kawa Island | |
Total land area | 20.66 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Location of the Torres Strait Islands |
The Kawai Islands are a group of islands in Papua New Guinea . They belong to the northernmost Torres Strait Islands and are only a few hundred meters off the south coast of New Guinea at the mouth of the Wassi Kussa River . The islands are flat, overgrown with mangroves and uninhabited. Of the original four islands that are still shown on a map from 1942, only three can now be made out on the satellite image. Adabadana Kawa Island can no longer be found. This island is already missing on a detailed map from 1948.
These are the following islands:
Island name | location | Area km² |
Geographic coordinates |
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Kawa Island | west | 9.69 | 09 ° 11 ′ S , 142 ° 00 ′ E |
Karobailo Kawa Island | north | 1.61 | 09 ° 11 ′ S , 142 ° 01 ′ E |
( Adabadana Kawa Island ) | south | - | 09 ° 12 ′ S , 142 ° 01 ′ E |
Mata Kawa Island | east | 9.36 | 09 ° 11 ′ S , 142 ° 03 ′ E |
The Kawai Islands belong geographically to the Talbot Islands located about 10 km to the east , even if they were transferred from Australia to Papua New Guinea in the Torres Strait Treaty of 1978 .
Kawa (plural Kawal ) means "island" in the Kala Kaiwau Ya language ( language of the northwestern Torres Islands ). The name component also occurs in other island names of the immediately neighboring Australian island region of the Top Western Islands , such as Warul Kawa ( Deliverance Island ) and Moegina Kawa.
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- The 1978 Torres Strait Treaty (with explanations)
- ( Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap )