Rossel (island)
Rossel (Yela) | ||
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NASA satellite image from Rossel | ||
Waters | Solomon Lake | |
Archipelago | Louisiade Archipelago | |
Geographical location | 11 ° 21 ′ S , 154 ° 9 ′ E | |
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length | 34 km | |
width | 11 km | |
surface | 262.5 km² | |
Highest elevation | Mount Rossel 838 m |
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Residents | 3821 (2000) 15 inhabitants / km² |
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main place | Jinjo | |
Rossel to the east of the Louisiade archipelago nautical chart |
Rossel (also Yela) is the easternmost island of the Louisiade archipelago ; politically it belongs to the Milne Bay province in the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea .
population
According to the 2000 census, the island had 3,821 inhabitants, spread over 27 small villages and four separate institutions. In addition, 70 residents were on the small located off the northwest coast of neighboring island Wule Iceland (High Iceland). The largest places are Pumba and Cheme in the northeast of the island near the main town Jinjo.
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
Census Unit Number |
Surname | Ward | households | Population male |
Population female |
population total |
Coordinates |
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001 | Kark | 10 Damunu | 22nd | 63 | 67 | 130 | 11.3507 ° S , 154.0095 ° O |
002 | Damujo | 10 Damunu | 16 | 69 | 67 | 136 | 11.3497 ° S , 154.0095 ° O |
003 | Biambe | 10 Damunu | 19th | 55 | 66 | 121 | 11.3611 ° S , 154.0108 ° O |
004 | Yendi | 10 Damunu | 17th | 61 | 72 | 133 | 11.3624 ° S , 154.001 ° O |
401 | Damunu Mission | 10 Damunu | 13 | 21st | 21st | 42 | 11.3432 ° S , 154.0061 ° O |
001 | Morpa | 11 Morpa | 41 | 99 | 109 | 208 | 11.2988 ° S , 154.0639 ° O |
003 | Wule Island | 11 Morpa | 13 | 36 | 34 | 70 | 11.3035 ° S , 154.0293 ° O |
004 | Mbuwo | 11 Morpa | 22nd | 47 | 61 | 108 | 11.3197 ° S , 154.0861 ° O |
005 | Ionga Bay | 11 Morpa | 34 | 81 | 93 | 174 | 11.3543 ° S , 154.1125 ° O |
010 | Wulanga Bay | 12 Wulunga Bay | 23 | 60 | 64 | 124 | 11.3096 ° S , 154.1286 ° O |
011 | Pum | 12 Wulunga Bay | 37 | 89 | 100 | 189 | 11.312 ° S , 154.1682 ° O |
012 | Pwepwo | 12 Wulunga Bay | 24 | 55 | 60 | 115 | 11.3084 ° S , 154.1835 ° O |
005 | Jinjo | 13 Jinjo | 23 | 73 | 73 | 146 | 11.3167 ° S , 154.2361 ° O |
006 | Pumba | 13 Jinjo | 54 | 162 | 162 | 324 | 11.3124 ° S , 154.2264 ° O |
007 | Cheme | 13 Jinjo | 46 | 113 | 121 | 234 | 11.3222 ° S , 154.2451 ° O |
501 | Jinjo Stn | 13 Jinjo | 16 | 42 | 55 | 97 | 11.317 ° S , 154.2373 ° O |
001 | Tia | 14 Abeleti | 21st | 44 | 45 | 89 | 11.3992 ° S , 154.2078 ° O |
002 | Mwakpe | 14 Abeleti | 17th | 35 | 33 | 68 | 11.3791 ° S , 154.1972 ° O |
003 | Ngatete | 14 Abeleti | 19th | 57 | 54 | 111 | 11.3965 ° S , 154.1571 ° O |
004 | Ghapa'Ambeme | 14 Abeleti | 12 | 38 | 37 | 75 | 11.4143 ° S , 154.251 ° O |
005 | Piniga | 14 Abeleti | 40 | 117 | 112 | 229 | 11.3781 ° S , 154.2829 ° O |
007 | N'Jaru | 15 N'Jaru | 8th | 24 | 20th | 44 | 11,403 ° S , 154.1481 ° O |
008 | Whales | 15 N'Jaru | 22nd | 64 | 72 | 136 | 11.4058 ° S , 154.1259 ° O |
009 | Wamadaknop | 15 N'Jaru | 18th | 40 | 32 | 72 | 11.4022 ° S , 154.1492 ° O |
010 | Vyukwa | 15 N'Jaru | 35 | 85 | 94 | 179 | 11.3978 ° S , 154.1567 ° O |
401 | Njaru Community School | 15 N'Jaru | 5 | 15th | 16 | 31 | 11.3935 ° S , 154.2228 ° O |
008 | Pambwa | 17 Pambwa / Saman | 11 | 37 | 46 | 83 | 11.418 ° S , 154.0655 ° O |
009 | Saman | 17 Pambwa / Saman | 11 | 34 | 33 | 67 | 11.4183 ° S , 154.0816 ° O |
010 | Dole | 17 Pambwa / Saman | 16 | 51 | 52 | 103 | 11.363 ° S , 154.0004 ° O |
011 | Pemma | 17 Pambwa / Saman | 34 | 93 | 97 | 190 | 11.4173 ° S , 154.0836 ° O |
012 | Chambwa | 17 Pambwa / Saman | 12 | 30th | 23 | 53 | 11.4203 ° S , 154.0985 ° O |
502 | Pambwa Station | 17 Pambwa / Saman | 4th | 7th | 3 | 10 | 11.4043 ° S , 154.0127 ° O |
history
The Louisiade archipelago has been around since 1500 BC. Inhabited by Polynesians . The islands of the archipelago were probably discovered by the Spanish captain Luiz Váez de Torres as early as 1606 . In 1768 she visited Louis Antoine de Bougainville , who named her after the then French King Louis XV. named. The island of Rossel was named in 1793 by Joseph Bruny d'Entrecasteaux after the geoscientist Elizabeth Paul Edouard de Rossel, then the first officer of the frigate Recherche and later Rear Admiral .
In 1858 the French ship St. Paul under the command of Captain Pennant with 327 Chinese coolies on the way to Australia before Rossel sank. A search and rescue expedition of the ship Styx under the command of Lieutenant Grimoult, who returned on January 25, 1859, found that all of the survivors except for one Chinese who was brought to Sydney were successively killed and eaten by the locals .
description
The volcanic island extends 34 km in an east-west direction, it is up to 11 km wide. With an area of 262.5 km², it is the second largest island in the archipelago after Vanatinai . In 1978 the population was estimated at 3,000 people. The inhabitants speak Yélî Dnye , an isolated language . The main town is Jinjo on the east coast. Rossel is covered with thick forest; almost the entire south coast is completely forested. The higher elevations are always overcast during the southeast monsoon .
The highest point is Mount Rossel (also Mbgö ) at 838 m near the eastern end of the island, Cape Deliverance. The rugged summit has steep slopes to the north and west, while it is flatter to the south. The southwestern ridge has two peaks that can be seen from afar, both of which rise 549 m high. The eastern, Mount Mo, has a flat plateau while the western is conical. At the western end of the island is a conspicuous conical peak with a height of 347 m.
A fringing reef surrounds the large, approximately 88 km long and up to 20 km wide Rossel lagoon in the west and a smaller lagoon in the east. The Rossel Lagoon extends over 40 km from the westernmost point of the island to the Rossel Passage at the western end of the fringing reef. The barrier reef that surrounds the island is narrow and has four entrances to the west of the island. The barrier reef runs continuously in the south to the Rossel Passage. The lagoon is 37 to 64 m deep with a multitude of sandbanks.
One type of melomys , Melomys arcium is on Rossel endemic . A species of the balsam tree family , namely Rosselia bracteata Forman et al. from the tribe Canarieae endemic to the island.
According to the definition of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), a line from the southeastern tip of the island of New Guinea through the Louisiade archipelago to Rossel forms the southwestern border of the Solomon Sea to the Coral Sea . In the section to the Coral Sea, however, it says that this line extends along the reefs from the Uluma Reefs to Tagula .
Web links
- Rossel, Nautical Information (PDF; 418 kB) Atlas of Pilot Charts, US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
literature
- EPE de Rossel: Voyage de D'Entrecasteaux Vol. 1–2, Paris 1808, In: Leslie R. Marchant: France and New Zealand 1769-1846: A List of Naval Records in Paris , Perth 1962
Individual evidence
- ^ Jordan Goodman: Losing it in New Guinea: the voyage of HMS Rattlesnake. Endeavor, Elsevier, Kidlington 2005 Vol. 29 No. 2 pp. 60-65 ISSN 0160-9327
- ↑ Arthur Wichman (ed.): History of the discovery of New Guinea (until 1828). Vol. 1, EJ Brill, Leiden 1909, p. 104
- ↑ LL Forman, RWJM van der Ham, MM Harley, TJ Lawrence: Rosselia, a New Genus of Burseraceae from the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. In: Kew Bulletin , Volume 49, Issue 4, 1994, pp. 601-621. doi : 10.2307 / 4118063
- ↑ International Hydrographic Organization (1953): Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition (PDF; 994 kB), p. 38 (Solomon Sea) and 37 (Coral Sea). Retrieved February 7, 2010.