Nuguria Islands

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Nuguria Islands
Nuguria Islands (Nuguria Islands and Mallum Islands on the map)
Nuguria Islands ( Nuguria Islands and Mallum Islands on the map)
Waters Pacific Ocean
Geographical location 3 ° 12 ′  S , 154 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 3 ° 12 ′  S , 154 ° 31 ′  E
Nuguria Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Nuguria Islands
Number of islands approx. 50
Main island Nuguria Atoll
Total land area 10 km²
Residents 502 (2000)

The Nuguria Islands (also Nukuria , Abgarris , Faed or Fead Islands ) are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean . They are located 200 km northeast of New Ireland and consist of two atolls , the larger Nuguria and the smaller Malum , which is 4 km away from the northwest tip of the Nukuria Atoll and is separated from it by deeper water, and the small island of Sable Island in South. The archipelago has a total land area of ​​around 10 km². The total of around 500 inhabitants all settle in the southern Nuguria Atoll; the smaller Malum Atoll is uninhabited.

The Nuguria Islands belong to Papua New Guinea and are therefore politically part of Melanesia . Administratively, they belong to the Atolls Local Level Government of the North Bougainville District in the autonomous region of Bougainville . Culturally, due to the Polynesian population, the atolls are among the Polynesian exclaves that lie outside the Polynesian triangle .

The islands were discovered for the western world by the American whaling ship Abgarris in 1822 , found again in 1826 by the British trader Renneck and named the Fead Islands.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Parkinson ( [1] ) 1909, page 226