Brumer Islands are an island group of
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 n ...
. The islands are located off the southeast coast of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
, about 10 km from the South Cape. The islands belong to
Suau Rural LLG, and are not related to
Louisiade Archipelago
The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands in Papua New Guinea.
It is located 200 km southeast of New Guinea, stretching over more than and spread o ...
.
Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua (2,49 km
2), is the westernmost island of the group. it is long and narrow, and extends over 14 km from northeast to southwest. It is dense with coconut forests and other trees. The soil is fertile. In the valleys, many fenced fields of the farmers who raise bananas and sugar cane can be seen. At its highest point, Mount Bonarua, it reaches 120 m. There is a light beacon on the southwest cape of the island.
Harikoia, the second largest island (1,32 km
2) is located east of Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua, it is higher and reaches 165 m.
The other islands of the group, including Ahana rock, are all located southeast of Harikoia.
Population
At the time of the 2000 census the population of the group was 160, all in the only village on the main island Bonarua.
History
First recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of
Luís Vaez de Torres
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...
in the summer of 1606, that charted it as ''Mira Como Vas'' (Look How You're Going in Spanish).
References
External links
Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 New Guinea Enroute, Guna Isu to Isulailai PointNational Geospatial-intelligence Agency, ProStar Publications, Annapolis 2004,
Islands of Milne Bay Province
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