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Goodenough Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica (765 words) |
 | formerly Morata, one of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands (q.v. |
| It is separated from Goodenough Island (northwest) by Moresby Strait and from Normanby Island (southeast) by Dawson Strait. |
| The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west. |
| PAPUA NEW GUINEA ORCHID NEWS (3441 words) |
| The D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the islands of the Lousiade Archipelago are peaks of submerged mountains and are considered an extension of the cordillera. |
| New Hanover and the islands of Feni, Tanga, Lihir and Tabar are of volcanic origin as is Mussau in the St. Matthias group and the islands south of Manus. |
| The island of New Guinea is of biogeographic importance because of its past and present geographic position between Asia to the west and Australia and Pacific to the south and east. |
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