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A 1644 map of New Guinea and the surrounding area. The island has been known by various names: The name Papua was used to refer to parts of the island before contact with the West. [3] Its etymology is unclear; [3] one theory states that it derived from Tidore, the language used by the Sultanate of Tidore. [1]
British and American whaling ships visited the island for provisions, water, and wood in the 19th century. The first on record was the Roscoe in 1822, and the last was Palmetto in 1881. [5] Later, the German Empire laid claim to Bougainville in 1899, annexing it into German New Guinea. Christian missionaries arrived on the island in 1902. [6]
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [191] [192] [193] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [194]
The islands are named in honour of Philip Carteret, who discovered the set of islands aboard HMS Swallow on 24 June 1767. When visited in 1830 by Benjamin Morrell in the schooner Antarctic, several islands had a native population who were growing a variety of crops. One small island was uninhabited and covered with heavy timber.
The D'Entrecasteaux Islands are volcanically active, with a number of areas of historic/geologic volcanism and active geothermal fields. Fergusson Island has three volcanic masses over 1,828 m (5,997 ft) high. [3] There are geothermal areas in the south east area of Goodenough Island [4] and the Bwabwadana and Iamalele [5] on Fergusson Island ...
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as parts of Indonesia. Trans–New Guinea is perhaps the third-largest language family in the world by number of languages. The core of the family is ...
The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the central and eastern parts of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end.