Tatau Island
Tatau Island is an island of the Tabar Group of Papua New Guinea, located to the east of New Ireland (island), New Ireland and about a mile south of Simberi Island. References Islands of Papua New Guinea {{PapuaNewGuinea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tabar Islands, Papua New Guinea, Sentinel-2
Tabar may refer to: * The Punjabi language, Punjabi word for "family" ** ''Tabbar'', 2021 Indian television series * The Pashto word for "tribe" in the Pashtun tribal structure * Tabar (axe), a type of battle axe from Asia ** INS Tabar (F44), INS ''Tabar'' (F44), an Indian naval vessel * Tabar, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran * Tabar, Isfahan, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran * The Tabar Islands, AKA Tabar Group, an island group in Papua New Guinea * Tabar, Navarre, a village in Navarre, Spain, part of Urraúl Bajo Municipality * Tabar Rural District, in North Khorasan Province, Iran * Tabar (surname) See also * Tabara (other) * Taber, Alberta, a town in southern Alberta, Canada * Tabor (other) * Tabaristan {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tabar Group
The Tabar Group is an island group in Papua New Guinea, located north of New Ireland. It is a part of the Bismarck Archipelago. The Tabar group consists of a short chain of three main islands - Tabar Island (a.k.a. Big Tabar) in the south, Tatau Island in the center, and Simberi Island in the north - as well as a number of smaller offshore islets. The highest peak is Mount Beirari at . The population of the island group was 3,920 at the 2000 Census. The Tabar Group is administered by the Sentral Niu Ailan Rural Local Level Government (LLG), New Ireland Province. The Tabar Group is the area of origin of Malagan art. The local language is Mandara (also known as Tabar), ISO 639-3 ISO 639-3:2007, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages'', is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for ... language code "tbf", an Austronesian languag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest list of island countries, island country, with an area of . The nation was split in the 1880s between German New Guinea in the North and the Territory of Papua, British Territory of Papua in the South, the latter of which was ceded to Australia in 1902. All of present-day Papua New Guinea came under Australian control following World War I, with the legally distinct Territory of New Guinea being established out of the former German colony as a League of Nations mandate. T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Ireland (island)
New Ireland (Tok Pisin: ''Niu Ailan''), or Latangai, is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately in area with 120,000 people. It is named after the island of Ireland. It is the largest island of New Ireland Province, lying northeast of the island of New Britain. Both islands are part of the Bismarck Archipelago, named after Otto von Bismarck, and they are separated by Saint George's Channel (Papua New Guinea), Saint George's Channel. The administrative centre of the island and of New Ireland province is the town of Kavieng located at the northern end of the island. While the island was part of German New Guinea, it was named Neumecklenburg ("New Mecklenburg"). Geography The island is part of the Bismarck Archipelago and is often described as having the shape of a musket. New Ireland is surrounded by the Bismarck Sea in the southwest and by the Pacific Ocean in the northeast. For much of its in length, the island's width varies between less than to , yet the c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Simberi Island
Simberi Island is a volcanic island in the Tabar Group, in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland Province. Geography and geology Simberi is the northernmost and smallest of the three islands in the Tabar Group. The island is about long and wide and has an area of about . Its highest point in the highlands on the eastern side of the island is a eroded volcanic cone. The interior of the island is largely covered by rainforest. Most of the island's coast is steep and surrounded by a fringing reef together with a series of small islets. There is a woman shaped figure made by trees on the island and a barrier reef about offshore from the west coast. A strait separates Simberi from Tatau Island to the south west. Simberi island is a potassium rich (high-K) calc-alkaline island arc volcano, the oldest in the Pliocene to Holocene Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni (TLTF) volcanic arc that formed above a subduction zone. People The population is about 1100 and made up of nine clans who live in small co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |