Malum (atoll)
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| archipelago | Nuguria Islands | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 9 ′ S , 154 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | over 10 | |
| Main island | Paona | |
| length | 13 km | |
| width | 4 km | |
| Land area | 4 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Malum (also Mallum ) is the smaller of the two atolls of the Nuguria Islands in the Pacific Ocean . It belongs politically to Papua New Guinea and there to the Atolls Local Level Government of the North Bougainville District in the autonomous region of Bougainville .
geography
Malum is four kilometers northwest of the larger neighboring atoll Nuguria and is separated from it by deep water. It is a narrow, elongated atoll with a length of 13 km and a width of up to 4 km. The land area amounts to around four square kilometers. The atoll is uninhabited, but was previously inhabited. The atoll includes numerous flat and dense coconut palm islands on the fringing reef , of which Paona in the north and Puna in the south are the largest.
Web links
- Malum on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The book by Richard Parkinson ( [1] 1909, page 226) names an area of 1000 hectares or 10 km² for the Nuguria Islands. According to Sustainability of Agriculture in Bougainville Province, the Atoll Nuguria accounts for 6.1 km². This leaves around 4 km² for the Malum atoll.
- ↑ Tim Bayliss-Smith: Constraints on population growth: The case of the Polynesian Outlier Atolls in the precontact period (accessed October 15, 2010)
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (English; PDF; 5.1 MB) (accessed October 14, 2010)