Purdy Islands
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| archipelago | Admiralty Islands | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 54 ′ S , 146 ° 23 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 5 | |
| Main island | mole | |
| Total land area | 3 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Purdy Islands (also Mwilitau, rodent islands ) are a widely scattered, uninhabited group of islands in the north of Papua New Guinea . Politically, they belong to the Manus Province .
geography
General
The islands and reefs are located in the southern area of the Admiralty Islands , Manus is 69 km north of the group.
The Purdy Islands consist of the three uninhabited islands of Mole , Mouse and Rat and the two (unnamed) islands of the subgroup of the Bat Islands . Mole, the largest island, is in the northeast of the group, Mouse Island is 6 km southwest of Mole; the narrow island of Rat is 2 km southwest of Mouse, at the southwest end of a 5 km long reef. The two islands of the Bat Islands are located in the northwest of the Purdy Group, 15 km northwest of Rat Reef and 23 km west of Mole. The islands are all low lying and fringed by coral reefs ; vegetation is present on all except the island of Rat.
List of islands
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
List of archipelagos and islands of the Purdy Islands:
| Island name | Alias | Coordinates | surface | Residents | annotation |
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| mole | 02 ° 52 ′ S , 146 ° 27 ′ E | ... | - | ||
| Mouse | 02 ° 54 ' S , 146 ° 24' E | ... | - | ||
| advice | 02 ° 46 ′ S , 146 ° 21 ′ E | ... | - | ||
| Bat Islands | 02 ° 51 ′ S , 146 ° 14 ′ E | ... | - | 2 islands |
history
The Purdy Islands were partially seen by Jacob Le Maire in 1616 and rediscovered in 1817 by the whaler Abraham Bristow . The area came under German administration in 1885 and belonged to German New Guinea since 1899 . In 1887 Carl Schrader explored the Purdy Islands. They were conquered by Australian troops in 1914 , and after the First World War they were administered as a mandate of the League of Nations of Australia. The islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1944 , but returned to Australian administration in 1949. Since 1975 they have been part of the independent state of Papua New Guinea.
Web links
- Purdy Islands (December 23, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ), the island encyclopedia.
- Purdy Islands . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 3: P - Z. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 117.