Irai Island is the main island of the
Conflict Islands, in the
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 ...
in
Milne Bay Province
Milne Bay is a province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Alotau. The province covers 14,345 km2 of land and 252,990 km2 of sea, within the province there are more than 600 islands, about 160 of which are inhabited. The province has ...
,
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 ...
. It was sighted in 1879 by
HMS Cormorant and named in 1880 by Bower, captain of
HMS Conflict.
[Arthur Wichman (Hrsg.)]
History of New-Guinea (bis 1828).
Bd. 1, E. J. Brill, Leiden 1909, S. 271
References
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Atolls of Papua New Guinea
Islands of Milne Bay Province
Louisiade Archipelago