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Bismarck Archipelago
Bismarck Archipelago volcanic island group, 19,200 sq mi (49,730 sq km), SW Pacific, a part of Papua New Guinea. The group includes New Britain (the largest island), New Ireland , the Admiralty Islands , the Mussau Islands, New Hanover , the Vitu Islands , and the Duke of York Islands . The ... Read more
Admiralty Islands
Admiralty Islands group of 40 volcanic islands, c.800 sq mi (2,070 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Bismarck Archipelago and part of Papua New Guinea. Lorengau, the chief port and administrative center of the group, is on Manus, the largest island. Copra, pearls, and marine shells are the principal pro... Read more
Melanesia
Melanesia , one of the three main divisions of Oceania , in the SW Pacific Ocean, NE of Australia and S of the equator. Melanesia includes the Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , New Caledonia , Tuvalu , the Bismarck Archipelago , the Admiralty Islands , and Fiji . New Guinea is sometimes included... Read more
New Hanover
New Hanover or Lavongai , volcanic island, c.460 sq mi (1,190 sq km), in the Bismarck Archipelago , part of Papua New Guinea. New Hanover is mountainous and densely forested. Coconuts, fishing, and timber are economically important. The island is known for long canoes, capable of holding 30 peo... Read more
Rabaul
Rabaul , town (1990 pop. 17,044), on New Britain island, Bismarck Archipelago , a part of Papua New Guinea. Situated within an active caldera surrounded by volcanoes, the city has long been vulnerable to volcanic eruptions. It was nearly destroyed in 1937, but after being rebuilt Rabaul flourishe... Read more
New Britain
New Britain volcanic island (1990 pop. 315,649), c.14,600 sq mi (37,810 sq km), SW Pacific, largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago and part of Papua New Guinea, in which it forms two provinces (East and West New Britain). Rabaul is the chief town and port. The island is mountainous, with ac... Read more
New Ireland
New Ireland volcanic island (1990 pop. 64,615), c.3,340 sq mi (8,650 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Bismarck Archipelago , part of Papua New Guinea. New Ireland is largely mountainous, rising to c.4,000 ft (1,220 m). Much of the island is under cultivation, especially the east coast. Kavieng is the ch... Read more
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially Independent State of Papua New Guinea, independent Commonwealth nation (2005 est. pop. 5,545,000), 183,540 sq mi (475,369 sq km), SW Pacific. It encompasses the eastern half of the island of New Guinea , as well as the Bismarck Archipelago , the Trobriand Islands , ... Read more
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages , sometimes also called Austronesian languages , family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madagascar; the Malay Peninsula; Indonesia and New Guinea; the Philippines; Taiwan; the Melanesian, Micronesi... Read more

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Bismarck Archipelago
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Bismarck Archipelago, group of about 200 Pacific islands which lie in a crescent shape off the east coast of what...Ireland , and the Admiralty Islands which all saw fighting during the Pacific war . See also Bismarck Sea , below.
Bismarck Sea, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Bismarck Sea, battle of. The most devastating air attack on shipping since...place in March 1943 in the waters which divide New Guinea from the Bismarck Archipelago. But on this occasion it was Allied aircraft which sank many Japanese...
Papua New Guinea
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...Islands and the Louisiade Archipelago are out of the monsoon pattern...to the Pacific Ocean. The Bismarck Sea is to the north of the...Guinea and is encircled by the Bismarck Archipelago. To the east...New Guinea. Islands and Archipelagos Papua New Guinea includes...Guinea are the islands ...
climate change and palaeovolcanism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...Askja, Iceland 300 1878 Ghaie, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago possibly 1250 1883 Krakatoa, Indonesia 1000 1888 Bandai San, Japan 250 1888 Ritter Is., Bismarck Archipelago 250 1902 Mont Pelée, Martinique 100...
Manam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...the northwest, are part of the Schouten Island archipelago, a chain of small volcanic islands that stretches...Austronesian Lapita culture, centered in the Bismarck Archipelago since at least 1,600 b.c., is believed to...
Rabaul
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1990 pop. 17,044), on New Britain island, Bismarck Archipelago , a part of Papua New Guinea. Situated within an...flourished as the principal city and port of the archipelago, with one of the finest harbors in the world...
South-West Pacific Area
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...established in Brisbane in April 1942, commanded an area which took in Australia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck archipelago, Solomon Islands, and the Netherlands East Indies (except Sumatra). In August 1942 the boundary was changed...
New Britain campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...campaign, fought during the Pacific war on this island 500 km. (320 mi.) long in the Bismarck archipelago, which was part of the Australian mandate of New Guinea. The mandate's capital, Rabaul , at the island's...
New Guinea
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...mandate comprised the island's north-east quarter and extended to the islands of Bougainville , Buka, and the Bismarck archipelago which included New Ireland , the Admiralty Islands , and New Britain —at the eastern end of which was...
New Britain
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...volcanic island (1990 pop. 315,649), c.14,600 sq mi (37,810 sq km), SW Pacific, largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago and part of Papua New Guinea, in which it forms two provinces (East and West New Britain). Rabaul is the chief...

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Bismarck Archipelago Campaign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO CAMPAIGN BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO CAMPAIGN of World War II was fought in Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific area from late 1943 to early 1944. Located just north of New Guinea, these islands were situated along the Allied...
German Second empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...south-east Europe. In 1884 Bismarck presided over a conference of...for German Colonization, and Bismarck was prepared to claim three areas...Northern New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago in the Pacific were also claimed...
Papua New Guinea
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Guinea A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea north of Australia, together with the Bismarck Archipelago and other adjacent islands in the south-west Pacific Ocean. The western half of the island of New Guinea forms...

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Dating Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...spread extremely rapidly from the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea to Western...the decorative system in the Bismarck Archipelago. The difference...issues of dating for sites in the Bismarck Archipelago (Fig. 1), widely...
Pleistocene colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago: new evidence from West New Britain.
Magazine article from: Archaeology in Oceania; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...about human colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago. Analyses of the stratigraphy...been similar across the entire Bismarck Archipelago...Pleistocene colonisation in the Bismarck Archipelago from the perspective...
Analysis of plant microfossils in archaeological deposits from two remote archipelagos: the Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia, and the Pitcairn Group, Southeast Polynesia (1).
Magazine article from: Pacific Science; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...and Ward 2002, 2004). In Melanesia, Araceae starch residues have been identified at Lapita settlements in the Bismarck Archipelago (Crowther 2005) and Vanuatu (Horrocks and Bedford 2005). Similarly, Lentfer and Green (2004) identified...
New Species of Platymantis (Amphibia; Anura; Ranidae) from New Britain and Redescription of the Poorly Known Platymantis nexipus
Magazine article from: Copeia; 12/20/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Mountains, New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Southwestern Pacific. The...1999) and the Solomon-Bismarck archipelagos (21 species; Brown, 1952...1999). The islands of the Bismarck Archipelago (Fig. 1) support...
TRI-NATIONAL COMMITMENT TO LEATHERBACK TURTLE CONSERVATION IN PACIFIC
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/29/2006; 604 words ; ...Vogelkop (Doberai) Peninsula of Papua, Indonesia, across the Admiralty and Bismarck archipelagos of Papua New Guinea to Makira Island of the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Solomon Seas Ecoregion covers approximately 2 million km2 of Pacific Ocean...
The peopling of New Guinea: Evidence from class I human leukocyte antigen
Magazine article from: Human Biology; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...populations, and populations from the Bismarck Archipelago and New Caledonia. The study...spread throughout Sahul, the Bismarck Archipelago, and, shortly afterwards...island of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago during the Pleistocene...
Social networks and the spread of Lapita.(Research)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...of Lapita pottery within the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea continues...enormous region stretching from the Bismarck Archipelago, across Melanesia...decoration was imported to the Bismarck Archipelago with immigrants or...
Evolutionary lineages in Emballonura and Mosia bats (mammalia: microchiroptera) from the southwestern Pacific (1).(Report)
Magazine article from: Pacific Science; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...widely distributed in archipelagos of the southwestern...differentiation to archipelago biogeography. Specimens...rodents are found in the Bismarck Archipelago, but the former do...vertebrates within archipelagos are substantially...populations from the Bismarck Archipelago ...
PACNEWS DIGEST - USP researchers discover face of the first Fijians.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 10/22/2004; 700+ words ; ...between the Natadola site and the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, some 3400...pottery has been found outside the Bismarck Archipelago. As such it represents...Vanuatu) except the remote Bismarck Archipelago, which is thought...
Far Western, Western, and Eastern Lapita: a re-evaluation.(Oceania)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...stylistic change over time within the Bismarck Archipelago. The definition of provinces...longer pottery sequences in the Bismarck Archipelago can assess the insularity...Oceania, passing through the Bismarck Archipelago, carrying with them...