Tench (island)
| Tench | ||
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| Archipelago | St. Matthias Islands | |
| Geographical location | 1 ° 39 ′ 2 ″ S , 150 ° 40 ′ 19 ″ E | |
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| length | 825 m | |
| width | 615 m | |
| surface | 50 ha | |
| Residents | 100 200 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Tench | |
Tench (also Enus or Nuse) is an island in the north of Papua New Guinea . Administratively it belongs to the Murat Rural Local-Level Government Area of the Province of New Ireland .
geography
Tench is 130 km north of New Ireland and 100 km east of the island of Mussau which, like Tench, belongs to the St. Matthias Islands . The coral island, which is wooded in the west, is 850 m long, 600 m wide and is one meter above sea level. It is surrounded by coral reefs, a passage in the southwest, near the village of Tench, makes it possible to land on the island. Tench is located on an undersea mountain that rises 1000 m from a submarine mountain range.
history
The island has probably been in existence since around 1500 BC. Inhabited by Melanesians . Tench was in 1790 by Henry Lidgbird ball on a trip with the HMS Supply from Sydney to Batavia discovered and after Watkin Tench , a naval officer in the Royal Marines named, of the First Fleet in the penal colony Australia came. The area came under German administration in 1885 and belonged to German New Guinea since 1899 . During the First World War the island was conquered by Australian troops and after the war it was administered as a mandate of the League of Nations of Australia. The island was occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1944, but returned to Australian administration in 1949 until Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975.
On December 8, 2008 , large tidal waves hit the coasts of northern Papua New Guinea , triggered by tropical storms in the West Pacific . The eastern part of Tench was flooded. The patrol boat HMPNGS Dreger of the Papua New Guinea Defense Force (PNGDF) evacuated 118 inhabitants of the island on December 13, 2008 and brought them to Emirau .
Collared pigeons and fairy terns , the white-tailed tropical bird , the Pacific fruit pigeon , the gray-headed monarch and the lizard-tree live on the island . Tench is one of the few places where the atoll star appears.
Tenis is spoken on Tench. Together with Mussau-Emira, Tenis forms the St. Matthias subgroup of the Oceanic languages in the Austronesian language family . The almost extinct language still had around 30 speakers in 2000.
Marine casualty of the MS Beluga Revolution
On April 30, 2010, who at the time nor the German shipping company stranded Beluga Shipping owned cargo ship MV Beluga Revolution on the island, because during the trip from Noumea ( New Caledonia ) to Pohang ( South Korea had noticed at any time) captain and officers of the watch that the map course was set off almost over the 50 hectare small island. The damaged ship was able to continue its voyage after the rescue.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darrell T. Tryon, Shigeru Tsuchida: Comparative Austronesian dictionary: an introduction to Austronesian studies Volume 1, Part 1, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-012729-6
- ↑ (December 14, 2008) 50,000 PNG villagers flee huge waves ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FijiLive (accessed February 7, 2011)
- ↑ (December 11, 2008) Simon Eroro: hit 25,000 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Post-Courier (accessed February 7, 2011)
- ↑ Stephen Wurm: Highly endangered languages of Papua New Guinea. (PDF; 17 kB)
- ^ Tenis: a language of Papua New Guinea SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World
- ↑ Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation: Stranding of the MS Beluga Revolution on Enus (Tench) Island in the South Pacific on April 30, 2010 , investigation report 174/10 of August 1, 2011
