Manne Island
| Manne Island Mane, Namane (former names) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | New Ireland | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 10 km | |
| width | 3 km | |
Manne Island is an island that belongs to the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea . Administratively it is part of the Kavieng District . The approximately 17 square kilometers large island is separated by a narrow channel, the Albatross Channel , from Cape Masala , the extreme western foothills of New Ireland , the main island of the province. It is about ten kilometers wide, three kilometers long and mainly characterized by flat land with andesitic elevations of over 40 m high coral limestone . Cape Jeschke forms the extreme western point of the island.
Just north is the island Baudisson Iceland and separated by the two-kilometer wide strait Steffen Strait , lies west Selapiu Iceland . Manne Island, as well as the surrounding smaller islands between Lavongai ( German Neuhannover , English New Hanover ) and New Ireland, were called road islands in the German colonial era . At that time, coconut palms and lemongrass were planted on the island .
The island was named Mane or Namane during the German colonial era .
literature
Keyword Mane. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume II, p. 495 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boyd D. Peterson, William R. Garren, Charles M. Heyda: Gazetteer of Papua New Guinea: names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names . United States. Defense Mapping Agency, United States Board on Geographic Names, 1982, p. 313 (Accessed June 10, 2020).
- ↑ Keyword street islands. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 428 ( online )