Everything about Bismarck Islands totally explained
The
Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of
New Guinea in the western
Pacific Ocean and part of
Papua New Guinea.
History
The first inhabitants of the Archipelago arrived around 33,000 years ago after sailing from what is now Papua New Guinea. Later arrivals included the
Lapita people.
The first European to visit these islands was
Dutch explorer
Willem Schouten in 1616.
The islands remained unsettled by western Europeans until they became part of the
German protectorate of
German New Guinea in
1884. The area was named in honour of the
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
On
13 March 1888, a
volcano erupted on
Ritter Island causing a
megatsunami. Almost 100% of the volcano fell in to the ocean leaving a small
crater lake.
Following the outbreak of
World War I, the
Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force seized the islands in
1914 and
Australia later received a
League of Nations mandate for the islands. They remained under Australian control — interrupted only by
Japanese occupation during
World War II — until Papua New Guinea became independent in
1975.
Geography
The Bismarck
archipelago includes mostly
volcanic islands spread into 4 provinces with an area of where the most important islands include:
Manus Province (9)
New Ireland Province (12)
West New Britain Province (18)
Bougainville Province (14) Autonomous and lying southeast of the Feni Islands **
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