Louisiade Archipelago
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Key facts
- Total islands
- 300+
- Area
- 1,871.1 km (722.4 sq mi)
- Province
- Milne Bay Province
- Largest settlement
- Bwagaoia on Misima Island (pop. 2680)
- Population
- 47000 (2014)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archipelago
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Milne Bay Province
- Area
- 1871.1
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Body of water
- Coral Sea
- Image
- Louisiadearchipelago.JPG
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- Louisiade Archipelago
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- Louisiade Archipelago
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Encyclopedic overview
Moving westward from eastern end of the chain are the islands of Rossel and Vanatinai (Tagula). Misima Island, which harbors the largest village in the region, is obscured by a patch of clouds northeast of image center The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands in Papua New Guinea.
It is located 200 km southeast of New Guinea, stretching over more than 160 kilometres (99 mi) and spread over an ocean area of 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 mi) between the Solomon Sea to the north and the Coral Sea to the south. The aggregate land area of the islands is about 1,871 square kilometres (722 mi), with Vanatinai (Sudest) beingness the largest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louisiade Archipelago” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.