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Well
Waters	Bismarcksee
Archipelago	Admiralty Islands
Geographical location	2 ° 12 '49 " S , 148 ° 11' 58" E Coordinates: 2 ° 12 '49 " S , 148 ° 11' 58" E
length	1.8 km
width	1.4 km
surface	2 km²
Highest elevation	131 m
Residents	100 ; 50 inhabitants / km²
main place	Chakol

Nauna (also La Vandola Island, Balletwi Island) is an island in the north of Papua New Guinea . Administratively it belongs to the province of Manus .

geography

Nauna is 40 km east of Rambutyo and is the easternmost of the Admiralty Islands . It is about 131 m high and densely forested. The island is surrounded by coral reefs . The north coast of Nauna is steep and rugged. A narrow sandy beach with coconut trees stretches almost around the small island. There is a beacon on the west coast. The only village on the island is Chakol in the north. The residents speak Nauna, an endangered language that had 130 speakers in 1977 and only 100 speakers in 2000, and Titan as a second language.

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 . 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.

Individual evidence

↑ Nauna ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lighthouses and Beacons, PNG National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA), 2008 @1@ 2

↑ Stephen Adolphe Wurm: Australasia and the Pacific, Nauna In: Christopher Moseley (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages Routledge Shorton, 2007, p. 523, ISBN 0-7007-1197-X

^ M. Paul Lewis (Ed.) Nauna, A language of Papua New Guinea Ethnologue: Languages of the World, SIL International, Dallas 2009.

[1] Nauna ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lighthouses and Beacons, PNG National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA), 2008 @1@ 2

[2] Stephen Adolphe Wurm: Australasia and the Pacific, Nauna In: Christopher Moseley (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages Routledge Shorton, 2007, p. 523, ISBN 0-7007-1197-X

[3] M. Paul Lewis (Ed.) Nauna, A language of Papua New Guinea Ethnologue: Languages of the World, SIL International, Dallas 2009.