Rossel (island)

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Rossel (Yela)
NASA satellite image from Rossel
NASA satellite image from Rossel
Waters Solomon Lake
Archipelago Louisiade Archipelago
Geographical location 11 ° 21 ′  S , 154 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 11 ° 21 ′  S , 154 ° 9 ′  E
Rossel (Island) (Papua New Guinea)
Rossel (island)
length 34 km
width 11 km
surface 262.5 km²
Highest elevation Mount Rossel
838  m
Residents 3821 (2000)
15 inhabitants / km²
main place Jinjo
Rossel to the east of the Louisiade archipelago nautical chart
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.

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Census
Unit
Number 		Surname Ward households Population
male 		Population
female 		population
total 		Coordinates
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

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

  1. ^ 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
  2. ↑ Arthur Wichman (ed.): History of the discovery of New Guinea (until 1828). Vol. 1, EJ Brill, Leiden 1909, p. 104
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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.