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The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre (174-square-mile) archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the nation of Papua New Guinea and are in Milne Bay Province .
Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of 290.5 km 2 (112.2 sq mi). [1] It is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Most of the 12,000 people who live in the Trobriands live on Kiriwina. The Kilivila language, also known as Kiriwina, is spoken on the island.
The 1929 map of the Trobriand Islands shows five villages on Kayleuna. Kaileuna is an island in the Trobriand Islands group of Papua New Guinea. With an area of 45.53 km 2, it is the second-largest island in the group, after Kiriwina. [1] As of the census of the population of 2000, there were 1,908 people living on the island, in five villages:
The term "Trobriand" itself is not Kilivilan: the islands take this name from the French explorer Jean François Sylvestre Denis de Trobriand who visited in 1793. [2] Malinowski in the Trobriands. Drawing upon earlier work by Bronisław Malinowski, Dorothy D. Lee's scholarly writings refer to "non-lineal codifications of reality". In such a ...
The Trobriand plate underlies south-eastern parts of Papua New Guinea east of the Owen Stanley Range as it is separated in the range from the Australian plate by the Owen Stanley Fault Zone [1] [2] This extends along the southern border of the Goodenough Basin and through the southern part of Normanby Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
Botanically, New Guinea is considered part of Malesia, a floristic region that extends from the Malay Peninsula across Indonesia to New Guinea and the East Melanesian Islands. The flora of New Guinea is a mixture of many tropical rainforest species with origins in Asia, together
Kitava is one of the four major islands in the Trobriand Islands archipelago group of the Solomon Sea, located in Milne Bay Province of southeastern Papua New Guinea. Ethnography [ edit ]
Map of Papua New Guinea. This is a list of islands in Papua New Guinea, as to most of its 600 main islands, by province listed NW to SE. [1] Numbered provinces in Papua New Guinea, referred to in the text