Sable Island (Papua New Guinea)

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Sable Island
Landsat image of Sable Island
Landsat image of Sable Island
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Nuguria Islands
Geographical location 3 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 3 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
Sable Island (Papua New Guinea) (Papua New Guinea)
Sable Island (Papua New Guinea)
length 200 m
width 200 m
surface 3 ha
Highest elevation 2.4  m
Residents uninhabited
Map of the province with the location of the island (the black point below the Nuguria Islands in the northwest of the province)
Map of the province with the location of the island
(the black point below the Nuguria Islands in the northwest of the province)

Sable Island (also Sable Islet or Sand Island ) is a small, uninhabited island of the Nuguria Islands in the Pacific Ocean , about 16 km southwest of the Nuguria Atoll . The approximately 2 m high island is surrounded by a coral reef . Politically, Sable Island belongs to Papua New Guinea and there to the Atolls Local Level Government of the North Bougainville District in the autonomous region of Bougainville .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (PDF; 5.1 MB) (accessed January 10, 2011)