Le Maire Islands

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Le Maire Islands
Bam, the easternmost island
Bam , the easternmost island
Waters Pacific Ocean
Geographical location 3 ° 31 ′  S , 144 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 3 ° 31 ′  S , 144 ° 38 ′  E
Le Maire Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Le Maire Islands
Number of islands 6th
Main island Vokeo
Total land area 35 km²
Residents 3789 (2000)
Overview map
Overview map
Map sheet 1: 250,000 (1962) with Schouten Islands

The Le Maire Islands (occasionally also called Schouten Islands ) are a small group of islands in the Pacific Ocean located in front of the mouth of the Sepik River near the east coast of New Guinea .

The group belongs to the East Sepik province of the South Pacific island state of Papua New Guinea ; during the German colonial period it was part of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land .

geography

The following islands belong to the archipelago (from west to east), with population information from the 2000 census:

No. island former
name		 Area
km² 		Population
2000
1 Vokeo Roissy 16 899
2 Koil Deblois 2 721
3 Wiei Jacquinot 9 68
4th Kadovar Blosseville 1 434
5 Blup blup Garnot 3.5 513
6th Bam Lesson 3.8 1,154
  Le Maire Islands   35 3,789

Not all islands are inhabited; some of them have extinct or still active volcanoes .

administration

The archipelago forms part of the Wewak Island LLG (Local Level Government Area in the Wewak District of the East Sepik Province ).

history

The Le Maire Islands were probably discovered in 1545 by the Spanish navigator Íñigo Ortiz de Retez , but were not found again until 1616 on an expedition by the two Dutchmen Willem Cornelisz Schouten and Jacob Le Maire .

In 1823 the French cartographer Louis Isidore Duperrey named the Schouten Islands . However, as early as 1616, Le Maire had named a group of islands about 800 km northwest in the Cenderawasih Bay ( Indonesia , Papua Province ) as the Schouten Islands . Because of the ambiguity, the double designation ( Schouten ) accidentally assigned by Duperrey was later replaced by Le Maire .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/PNG/GMAP/PNG-GMAP.htm ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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