Lavongai
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| Archipelago | Bismarck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 31 ′ S , 150 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| length | 60 km | |
| width | 30 km | |
| surface | 1 186 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Mount Deimling 957 m |
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| Residents | 17.160 (2000) 14 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Patiagaga | |
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Lavongai ( German Neuhannover , English New Hanover ) is an island in the Bismarck Archipelago and politically belongs to Papua New Guinea and the province of New Ireland . In the English-speaking world it is also called New Hanover Island with the English translation of the old name. Lavongai is crossed by the Tirpitz Mountains in an east-west direction. The highest elevation of the 1186 km² island measures 957 meters. In 1960 there were 5,000 inhabitants on the island.
Lavongai is quite isolated and mountainous, so coconut palms only grow on the coasts .
Only two species of mammals are known to exist on the island, the bat species Nyctimene albiventer and Rousettus amplexicaudatus . The Moorish nun , a small species of finch with a predominantly black body plumage, occurs exclusively on this island.
Individual evidence
- ↑ islands.unep.ch: Lavongai
- ↑ Jürgen Nicolai (ed.), Joachim Steinbacher (ed.), Renate van den Elzen, Gerhard Hofmann: Prachtfinken - Australia, Oceania, Southeast Asia . Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3249-4 , p. 273.
