Trobriand Islands
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Key facts
- Location
- Solomon Sea
- Area
- 450 km (170 sq mi)
- Province
- Milne Bay
- Largest settlement
- Losuia
- Population
- 60,000 (2016)
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Milne Bay Province
- Area
- 440
- Body of water
- Solomon Sea
- Image
- Wmalinowski trobriand isles 1918.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Most of the population of 60,000 (2016) indigenous inhabitants live on the main island of Kiriwina, which is also the location of the government station, Losuia.
Other major islands in the group are Kaileuna, Vakuta, and Kitava. The group is considered to be an important tropical rainforest ecoregion in need of conservation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trobriand Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.