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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.
Buka became the capital of the Bougainville Province decades later, during the 1990s Bougainville Civil War. The former, or "proper" capital of Bougainville, Arawa, was all but destroyed in 1990 as tensions reached a critical level in a civil uprising, which ended with the Bougainville Peace Agreement in 1998. The Bougainville government ...
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).
There are 22 provincial-level divisions, which include 20 provinces, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and the National Capital District of Port Moresby. In 2009, the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea created two additional provinces, that officially came into being on 17 May 2012. [1]
Map of Papua New Guinea Port Moresby, Capital of Papua New Guinea. This is a list of cities, towns, ... Central Bougainville District: Bougainville (North Solomons)
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator, explorer, and military commander; Hyacinthe de Bougainville (1781–1846), French naval officer and son of Louis Antoine de Bougainville; Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1722-1763), French writer, member of the Académie française, brother to Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Arawa is the largest town and the former capital of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.It is administered under Arawa Rural LLG. [1]The town was largely destroyed during the Bougainville Civil War, [citation needed] resulting in the relocation of the capital to Buka, though there are plans to rebuild Arawa and make it the capital again. [2]
Buin is a town on Bougainville Island, and the capital of the South Bougainville District, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea.The island is in the northern Solomon Islands Archipelago of the Melanesia region, in the South Pacific Ocean.