Tanga Islands
| Tanga Islands | ||
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| archipelago | Bismarck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 26 ′ S , 153 ° 16 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 11 | |
| Main island | Boang | |
| Total land area | 1 km² | |
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The Tanga Islands are a group of islands in Papua New Guinea , 55 km northeast of New Ireland . They belong to the Province of New Ireland and the Bismarck Archipelago . The largest islands are Malendok (35 km²) and Boang (27 km²), smaller islands are Lif, Tefa, Bitlik and Bitbok. The Tanga Islands are the smallest islands of the Tabar - Lihir -Tanga- Feni -Inselkette .
The archipelago was discovered by Abel Tasman in April 1643 . They were also called Anthony Caens Islands , Caen Islands or D'Oraison group . From 1885 to 1899 the Tanga Islands belonged to the so-called " German Protected Area " and from 1899 to 1914 to the colony of German New Guinea . In 1914 the islands were conquered by Australian troops and administered as a mandate of the League of Nations of Australia after World War I. Since 1975 they have been part of the independent state of Papua New Guinea.
literature
- Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 3: P - Z. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 455.
Web links
- Tanga Islands on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Tanga in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)