Selapiu Island
| Selapiu Island Mausoleum Island (former name) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Bismarck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 41 '12 " S , 150 ° 33' 52" E | |
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| length | 9 km | |
| width | 6 km | |
| surface | 18 km² | |
Selapiu Island is a densely forested island that belongs to the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea . Administratively it is part of the Kavieng District . The approximately 18 square kilometer island is about 10 kilometers west of Cape Masala , the extreme western foothills of New Ireland , the main island of the province, separated. It is about nine kilometers long, about six kilometers wide at its widest point, and is predominantly characterized by flat land of upscale coral limestone . There is also an Andesite elevation about 100 m high.
Just east, the island is man Iceland from Iceland Selapiu by the two-kilometer wide strait Steffen Strait is separated. About ten kilometers further west is Lavongai ( German Neuhannover , English New Hanover ). Selapiu Island, as well as the surrounding smaller islands between Lavongai and New Ireland, were called road islands in the German colonial times .
During the German colonial era, the island was named Mausoleum Island and the small mountain there was named after Mausoleum Mountain .
literature
Keyword Selapiu. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume II, p. 495 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boyd D. Peterson, William R. Garren, Charles M. Heyda: Gazetteer of Papua New Guinea: names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names . United States. Defense Mapping Agency, United States Board on Geographic Names, 1982, p. 313 (Accessed June 10, 2020).
- ↑ Keyword street islands. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 428 ( online )