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Bougainville has been inhabited by humans for at least 29,000 years, according to evidence obtained from Kilu Cave on Buka Island. [11] Until about 10,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, there was a single island referred to as "Greater Bougainville" that spanned from the northern tip of Buka Island to the Nggela Islands north of Guadalcanal.
Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) [1] is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Its land area is 9,300 km 2 (3,600 sq mi). The highest point is Mount Balbi , on the main island, at 2,715 m (8,907 ft).
It appears that some of the community are now looking to relocate permanently to the Bougainville mainland. The population dropped rapidly from around 2010 with the end of regular shipping, and expatriate Takuu chartered open boats to bring off family members, most of whom settled in Buka. In 2019 the estimated resident population was 150.
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Population grew rapidly in the early 1900s, and overcrowding in the 1930s caused a population decline. [2] Food shortages since the 1960s, in recent times caused by international commercial fishers, caused resettlement of some islanders to the Kuveria area of Bougainville from 1984 through the late 1980s. [ 4 ]
Austria does not collect data on the ethnicity or race of its citizens but does collect data on the nationality of residents currently in the country. [16] According to the Austrian Statistical Bureau, 814,800 foreigners legally lived in Austria in mid-2006, representing 9.8% of the total population, one of the highest rates in Europe.
Lake Loloru, a volcanic crater lake northeast of Buin, where south Bougainvillean people believe deceased souls live.. Buin was within German New Guinea from 1884 to 1919. . Three anthropologists explored traditional cultures in Bougainville in the 1930s, one in Siwai, the ethnically and culturally closely related region immediately to the west of the later Buin; another in the region of the ...
In 1921, the population of Bougainville was recorded at 46,832. The Australian district officer was based at Kieta and controlled a native police force of 40 constables and five officers. [ 22 ] The civil administration "pursued pacification less ferociously than its military predecessor" and recruited Bougainvilleans as interpreters. [ 23 ]