Lihir Islands
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| archipelago | Bismarck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 0 ′ S , 152 ° 38 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 6th | |
| Main island | Niolam | |
| Residents | 17,300 (2005) | |
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The Lihir Islands are a group of six islands north of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago , which belong to Papua New Guinea , New Ireland Province . They are part of the Tabar- Lihir- Tanga - Feni -Island chain .
Niolam or Aniolam is the official name of the main island of the Lihir Islands. However, it is more commonly called Lihir . Alternatively, the islands or the main island were also referred to as: Lir, Gardenijs, Gerrit Denys, Gerrit de Nijs, Garde Neys, Gerard de Nys, Isle du Bouchage or Day. Niolam is a volcanic island .
Other islands in the group are, in order of distance from the main island, the flat coral islands Sinambiet (Sanambiet) and Mando, as well as the upscale coral islands Malie (Mali, formerly San Antonio), Masahet (Massait, formerly Saint Joseph Island) and Mahur (formerly San Francisco). The latter three are also grouped under the collective name Ihot ( e.g. Steinplatz ).
The archipelago was discovered by Abel Tasman in April 1643 . From 1885 to 1899 the Lihir Islands belonged to the so-called " German Protected Area " and from 1899 to 1914 to the colony of German New Guinea . In 1914 the islands were conquered by Australian troops, and after the First World War they were administered as a mandate of the League of Nations of Australia. Since 1975 they have been part of the independent state of Papua New Guinea.
About 17,300 people lived on the five islands in October 2005, including 13,600 Lihirians and about 3,700 immigrants from other parts of Papua New Guinea.
The residents of the Lihir Islands speak Lihir , an Austronesian language that has five numbers : singular , dual , trial , paucal and plural .
One of the largest gold deposits in the world is located on Niolam .
literature
- Otto Schlaginhaufen: Information about a trip to the island of Lir in Melanesia (December 15, 1908 to January 19, 1909). In: Mitteilungen der Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich, 19 (1918–1919), pp. 5–24 ( online , doi : 10.5169 / seals-17000 )
- Lir . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 2: H - O. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 458.
- Nicholas A. Bainton, Chris Ballard, Kirsty Gillespie: The End of the Beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir . In: The Australian Journal of Anthropology . Volume 23, 2012, pp. 22-49 ( online )
Web links
- Lihir Islands on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- University of Melbourne, Institute of Land and Food Resources, Land use in tropical lowlands, Lihir Island Group, photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicholas A. Bainton, Chris Ballard, Kirsty Gillespie: The End of the Beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir. In: Australian Anthropological Society (Ed.): The Australian Journal of Anthropology . Pp. 22-49. No. (2012) 23 , pp. 23–24 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1757-6547.2012.00169.x ( wcaanet.org [PDF; 350 kB ; accessed on December 1, 2016]).