Nuguria Islands
Nuguria Islands | ||
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Nuguria Islands ( Nuguria Islands and Mallum Islands on the map) | ||
Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
Geographical location | 3 ° 12 ′ S , 154 ° 31 ′ E | |
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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.
Web links
- Nuguria Islands on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)