Tabar (island)
| Tabar Southern Gardner Island (former name) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Tabar Islands | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 47 ′ S , 151 ° 58 ′ E | |
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| length | 20 km | |
| width | 9 km | |
| surface | 110 km² | |
Tabar is an island that belongs to the Tabar Islands in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea . It is the main island of the group and is inhabited by the Tabar tribe. Administratively, the island is part of the Namatanai district . The approximately 100 square kilometers large island is 25 km northeast of New Ireland , the main island of the province. The island is of volcanic origin, about 9 km wide, 20 km long and mainly characterized by flat land with andesitic elevations of over 400 m and raised coral limestone .
Tabar is separated from the neighboring island of Tatau by a narrow channel.
The population is mainly divided into a few villages along the coast and the interior of the island is largely covered by rainforest. The main town Datava is located in the northern part of the island in Koko Bay. The islands can only be reached by boat as they do not have an airport.
history
The island has probably been in existence since around 1500 BC. Inhabited by Melanesians.
The Dutch navigators Jacob Le Maire and Willem Cornelisz Schouten passed the Tabar Islands in 1616 without realizing that Tatau was separated from Tabar. They first called the island Mossiinsel , in 1642 the island was visited by Abel Tasman and referred to as Visscherinsel .
In 1885 the area became part of German New Guinea , previously it was administered by the German New Guinea Company and the island was named Southern Gardner Island . At that time there was a dealer station in the northwest.
After the First World War , the area came under Australian mandate sovereignty , which officially extended over the entire Bismarck Archipelago on behalf of the United Nations .
The territory was occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945 but returned to the mandate of the Australian government until Papua New Guinea gained independence in 1975.
Carl Emil Pettersson , a Swedish seaman who was shipwrecked in 1904 and landed on the island, became king of the island after his death (nicknamed "Strong Charly") after his marriage to the daughter of a local chief . Pettersson is said to be the historical model of Efraim Longstocking (father of Pippi Longstocking ) in the children's books of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomes H. Slone: One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspapers: Volume 1 Tales from 1972-1985. Masalai Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-9714127-0-5. Page: 148
- ↑ a b Keyword Tabar. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 461 ( online ).
- ↑ United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center: Sailing directions for the Pacific Islands, v.1 - Western groups, including the Solomon Islands . Dept. of Defense, Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Center, 1976, p. 197 (accessed December 31, 2012).
- ↑ Keyword Gardner Islands. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume I, p. 678 ( or Gardener Islands online ).
- ↑ Volker Weidermann: Pippi Longstocking's father: Kiss from a distant world . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 16, 2004. Retrieved January 22, 2013.