The Tabar Group is an island group in
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 ...
, located north of
New Ireland. It is a 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 ...
. The Tabar group consists of a short chain of three main islands -
Tabar Island (a.k.a. Big Tabar) in the south,
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.
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Islands of Papua New Guinea
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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
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 ...
.
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 language. Three dialects have been identified, Simberi, Tatau and Tabar.
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Islands of Papua New Guinea
New Ireland Province
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