Unea
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| Archipelago | Vitu Islands | |
| Geographical location | 4 ° 53 '20 " S , 149 ° 8' 25" E | |
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| length | 7 km | |
| width | 7 km | |
| surface | 33 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Kumbu 591 m |
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| Residents | 8802 (July 9, 2000) 267 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Bali | |
Unea , also called Bali or Merite , is a volcanic island of Papua New Guinea , located in the Bismarck Archipelago , north of New Britain .
Unea has an area of 33.0 km². For the census on July 9, 2000, 8802 inhabitants were counted. It is the most populous and after Garove the second largest of the Vitu Islands and is located in the province of West New Britain .
The almost circular island has a diameter of about 7 km and protrudes 591 m from the sea at its highest point in the summit of the volcanic cone Kumbu , making it the highest of the Vitu Islands.
literature
- WR Ambrose and RW Johnson: Unea: An Obsidian Non-Source in Papua New Guinea. The Journal of the Polynesian Society: Volume 95 No. 4, 1986, pp. 491-498 (with map of the island)
Web links
- Anthropomorphic stone carvings on Unea Island, Inge Riebe - The Journal of the Polynesian Society , Vol. 76, No. 3 (Sep. 1967), pp. 374-378
- German Colonial Lexicon (1920), Volume III, p. 573
- Unea ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Insel-Encyclopedia www.oceandots.com (English)
- Bird species on Unea (PDF, English; 118 kB)