Sissano Lagoon is a lagoon located in
West Aitape Rural LLG,
Sandaun Province,
Papua New Guinea.
The
Piore River languages (also called the ''Lagoon languages''), as well as the
Sissano language
Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), ...
, are spoken on the shores of the lagoon.
History
The lagoon was heavily affected by a
tsunami in 1998.
[Matsuyama, M., Walsh, J.P. and Yeh, H. 1999]
The effect of bathymetry on tsunami characteristics at Sisano Lagoon, Papua New Guinea
''Geophysical Research Letters'', 26, 23: 3513–3516.
References
Lagoons of Papua New Guinea
Sandaun Province
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