Quessant

Quessant
	NASA satellite image from Quessant
Waters	Solomon Lake
Archipelago	Louisiade Archipelago
Geographical location	11 ° 9 '2 " S , 151 ° 15' 24" E Coordinates: 11 ° 9 '2 " S , 151 ° 15' 24" O
length	1 km
width	500 m
surface	50 ha
Residents	uninhabited

Quessant (Tariwerwi or Ouessant) is an uninhabited coral island in the southeast of Papua New Guinea . It belongs to the Louisiade archipelago . Politically, it is part of the Milne Bay Province .

The Low Quessant lies on the northeast edge of a reef and is covered with thick vegetation . There are three more reefs between Quessant and the next, approx. 16 km northwest of the Stuers Islands .

Louis Antoine de Bougainville discovered the island on June 17, 1768 and named it because of its similarity after Ouessant , the French island near Brest , the starting point of his circumnavigation.

Individual evidence

↑ Louis Antoine de Bougainville: Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du Roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L'Étoile , (Ed.): Jacques Proust, Gallimard, Paris 1990, p. 303 ISBN 2-07-037385-1 p 303

[1] Louis Antoine de Bougainville: Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du Roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L'Étoile , (Ed.): Jacques Proust, Gallimard, Paris 1990, p. 303 ISBN 2-07-037385-1 p 303