New Hanover Island, (), also called Lavongai, is a large
volcanic island
Geologically, a volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin. The term high island can be used to distinguish such islands from low islands, which are formed from sedimentation or the uplifting of coral reefs (which have often formed ...
in the
New Ireland Province
New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg (), and Nova Hibernia, is the northeasternmost Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea.
Physical geography
The largest island of the province is New Ireland (island), New Irelan ...
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 ...
. This region is part of the
Bismarck Archipelago
The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about .
History
The first inhabitants of the archipela ...
and lies at . Measuring some , it had a population of 5,000 in 1960, which increased to approximately 17,160 by 2000.
In the interior the Tirpitz Range reaches a height of 2,800 feet.
Culture
Friedrich Ratzel
Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term ''Lebensraum'' ("living space") in the sense that the National Socialists later would.
Life
Ratzel's father was th ...
in ''The History of Mankind''
[Ratzel, Friedrich. The History of Mankind. (London: MacMillan, 1896). URL]
www.inquirewithin.biz/history/american_pacific/oceania/melanesian-ornament.htm
accessed 21 October 2009. reported in 1896, when discussing Melanesian ornament, that there were luxurious feather ornament displays in New Hanover, showing much taste in the combination of forms and colours with vegetable fibres and beads on sticks. An example was a delicately formed face in feather-mosaic forming the head of a hairpin.
See also
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Johnson cult (so-called)
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List of volcanoes in Papua New Guinea
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Papua New Guinea.
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
Bougainville
D'Entrecasteaux Islands
New Britain
New Ireland
Offshore islands
References
* Volcanoes of the World
Ex ...
References
External links
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Islands of Papua New Guinea
Volcanoes of Papua New Guinea
New Ireland Province