Tingwon Islands

Tingwon Islands
NASA satellite image of the Tingwon Islands
Waters	Bismarcksee
archipelago	Bismarck Archipelago
Geographical location	2 ° 37 ′  S , 149 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 2 ° 37 ′  S , 149 ° 40 ′  E
Number of islands	4th
Main island	Tingwon
Total land area	5 km²

The Tingwon Islands (also Portland Islands or Duke of Portland Islands ) are a group of islands in the Bismarck Sea . Politically, they belong to the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea . They are located 30 km west of Lavongai .

geography

The group of Tingwon Islands consists of the main island Tingwon with the small offshore island Nusamani as well as Kolenusa and Beligila . The islands, surrounded by a common coral reef, stretch over 15 km from northeast to southwest.

Location of the islands

Surname	Coordinates	population	Area km²
Tingwon	02 ° 37 ′  S , 149 ° 42 ′  E	...	1.54
Kolenusa	02 ° 38 '  S , 149 ° 41'  E	...	0.69
Beligila	02 ° 38 ′  S , 149 ° 40 ′  E	...	0.59
Nusamani	02 ° 36 '  S , 149 ° 42'  E	uninhabited	0.02

population

The residents of the islands live on basket and mat weaving, Sagoanbau , making dugout canoes and the cultivation of cassava and sweet potatoes . Clan membership is matrilineally inherited, while property inheritance is patrilinearly . The islanders have had exemplary success in growing a variety of crops. The National Agricultural Research Institute of Papua New Guinea sent a research group in 2006 to study and disseminate the Tingwon experience.

history

The islands have probably been around since around 1500 BC. Inhabited by Melanesians . Philipp Carteret discovered the Tingwon Islands in 1767 and named them after William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland . The area came under German administration in 1885 and belonged to German New Guinea since 1899 . In 1913, a 220 hectare coconut palm plantation was established on Tingwon . In 1914, Australian troops conquered the islands, which were administered as a mandate of the League of Nations of Australia after the First World War . They were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1944 , but returned to Australian administration in 1949. Since 1975 they have been part of the independent state of Papua New Guinea.

Transport and tourism

The IATA airport code for Tingwon Airport is TIG.

The coral reef was visited by cruise ships from time to time .

Web links

• Portland Islands , German Colonial Lexicon (1920), Volume III, p. 87

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (February 16, 2006) Study on for atolls agriculture  ( 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 8, 2011)  
2. ↑ Peter Sack. Dymphna Clark: German New Guinea: The Draft Annual Report for 1913-14 Canberra, Department of Law and Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1980.