Nuguria (atoll)
| Nuguria | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| archipelago | Nuguria Islands | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 19 ′ S , 154 ° 41 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | > 30 | |
| Main island | Paopao | |
| length | 35 km | |
| width | 8 kilometers | |
| Land area | 6.1 km² | |
| Residents | 502 (2000) | |
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Nuguria (also Nukuria , Abgarris or Fead Islands ) is the larger of the two atolls of the Nuguria Islands in the Pacific Ocean . Politically, it belongs to Papua New Guinea and is therefore part of Melanesia . Culturally, due to the Polynesian population, the atoll is one of the Polynesian exclaves that lie outside the Polynesian triangle . Administratively, it belongs to the Local Level Government atoll of the North Bougainville District in the autonomous region of Bougainville .
geography
Nuguria is a narrow, elongated atoll with a length of 35 km and a width between 3 and 8 km. The atoll includes, especially in the east and south, numerous flat and dense coconut palm islands on the fringing reef , of which Paopao (also Nugurba , Nukaruba or Goodman Island , in the south), Huhunati (in the southeast north of Paopao) and Namotu ( in the east) are the most important. The smaller neighboring atoll of Malum is four kilometers northwest of Nuguria . Nuguria has 502 inhabitants (as of 2000) on a land area of 6.1 km², who live in a subsistence economy mainly on fish, taro and coconuts.
Around 16 km southwest of the atoll is Sable Islet , which is 2.4 meters high and surrounded by a large coral reef.
Web links
- Nuguria on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Article about the canoe builder Nuguria, incl. Photos (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (English; PDF; 5.1 MB) (accessed October 14, 2010)
- ↑ Sustainability of Agriculture in Bougainville Province (English; PDF) (accessed October 14, 2010)