Lou (island)
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| Archipelago | Admiralty Islands | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 25 ′ S , 147 ° 22 ′ E | |
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| length | 12 km | |
| width | 3 km | |
| surface | 32 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Mount Bedul 281 m |
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| Residents | 1000 31 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | As long as | |
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Lou (also St. George Island) is an island in the north of Papua New Guinea . Administratively it belongs to the Balopa Rural Local-Level Government Area of Manus Province .
geography
Lou is about 20 km southeast of Manus . The area around Lou, also known as the “St. Andrew Strait region”, is home to various smaller islands and archipelagos. The Fedarb Islands are 7 km east, the St. Andrew Islands 5.5 km south-east and the Pam Islands south-south-east . Baluan Island, 9 km south, is the southernmost island of the Admiralty Islands .
Lou Island is steep and has three extinct volcanic peaks, the highest point being 281 m. There is a coral reef only on the northwest and northeast coasts .
There are four large villages on Lou: Rei and Lako in the east, Solang in the north and Baon (Paon) in the south.
history
The island has probably been in existence since around 1500 BC. Inhabited by Melanesians . The area came under German administration in 1885 and belonged to German New Guinea since 1899 . In 1899 Lou was visited by Georg Thilenius , who found micro-granite under the widespread obsidian . Lou's obsidian for tools and weapons was traded throughout the Southwest Pacific.
During the First World War the island was conquered by Australian troops and after the war it was administered as a mandate of the League of Nations of Australia. The island was occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1944, but returned to Australian administration in 1949 until Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975.
Web links
- Lou Island, Encyclopædia Britannica (Engl.)
- Volcano information
- Lou, Oceandots.com (further information & pictures) ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (engl.)
- Lou . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 2: H - O. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 464.
