|
New Ireland is an island in the Pacific, and the most northeastern province of Papua New Guinea. For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ...
This article is about political regions. ...
Physical Geography
The island is part of the Bismarck Archipelago, and is often described as having the shape of a musket. The tropical island of New Ireland is long, narrow and mountainous. For much of its 320 km length, it is less than 10 km across, yet the central mountainous spine is very steep and rugged. The highest peak is Lambel (2,150 metres or 7,054 feet). The island lies between one and five degrees south of the equator. The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and belonging to Papua New Guinea. ...
muskets and bayonets aboard the frigate Grand Turk A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore long gun. ...
The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ...
The equator is an imaginary line drawn around a planet, halfway between the poles. ...
Also part of the province are numerous smaller islands, including New Hanover, Saint Matthias Group (Mussau, Emirau), Tabar Group (Tabar, Tatau, Simberi), Tanga Group (Malendok, Boang), Feni Islands (Ambitle, Babase), Djaul, Lihir and Anir. Emirau Island is an island in the Bismarck Archipelago located at 1°38. ...
The land area of the province is around 9600 square km.
Human Geography The current population is approximately 100,000, the vast majority of whom live in small rural villages. The main town is Kavieng, the provincial capital, on the northern tip of the main island; Namatanai is another small town halfway along the island. The Boluminski Highway runs down the east coast, linking the two largest towns. Kavieng is the capital of the Papua New Guinean province of New Ireland and the largest town on the island of the same name. ...
Namatanai is a town on the island province of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. ...
Around twenty languages are spoken in New Ireland, and the number of dialects and subdialects totals perhaps 45. All are in the Austronesian language family, except for one isolated language (Kuot). A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ...
The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ...
Culture New Ireland, like much of Papua New Guinea, has a mixture of the old and the new: traditional cultural practices ("custom") are widespread and almost universally respected, yet society is changing as a result of church activity, urbanisation, and various aspects of global contemporary culture making their mark. A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ...
Urbanization is the degree of or increase in urban character or nature. ...
Probably the most famous cultural system of New Ireland is "Malagan", a Nalik word for an ancient and revered set of practices and ceremonies practiced throughout much of the main island.
History There have been at least three waves of migration into New Ireland over the last 40,000 years. The famous Lapita pottery culture was present around 3,300 years ago. Human migration denotes any movement of groups of people from one locality to another, rather than of individual wanderers. ...
Lapita is the common name of an ancient Pacific Ocean culture which is believed by some to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia and surrounding areas. ...
Chinese and South-East Asian contact appears to have been longstanding, though evidence is thin.
Dutch explorers made the first European contact in 1516. Missionary activity did not begin until 1877, and New Ireland was colonised by Germany in 1886, along with the rest of the northern half of present-day Papua New Guinea. Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. ...
A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ...
1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...
|
Feeds |
Contact