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The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre ... Map including the Trobriand Islands This page was last edited on 14 January 2025, at 18:55 (UTC). ...
Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of 290.5 km 2 (112.2 sq mi). [1] It is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.Most of the 12,000 people who live in the Trobriands live on Kiriwina.
The Trobriand Islands rain forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southeastern Papua New Guinea. [2] [3] [4] [5]The islands of this ecoregion have been separated from mainland New Guinea since the Late Pleistocene, and much of the biota is unique, including four mammal species and two birds-of-paradise plant species.
The 1929 map of the Trobriand Islands shows five villages on Kayleuna. Kaileuna is an island in the Trobriand Islands group of Papua New Guinea. With an area of 45.53 km 2, it is the second-largest island in the group, after Kiriwina. [1] As of the census of the population of 2000, there were 1,908 people living on the island, in five villages:
Pages in category "Trobriand Islands" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Kitava is one of the four major islands in the Trobriand Islands archipelago group of the Solomon Sea, located in Milne Bay Province of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Vakuta immediately south of Kiriwina on the map of the Trobriand Islands. Vakuta is an island in the Trobriand Islands group of Papua New Guinea.. Vakuta is a near continuation of the Trobriands' main island Kiriwina to the south, separated from it only through the 400-metre (1,300 ft) wide Kasilamaka Passage.
The Trobriand plate was, and likely is, an independent microplate between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has some unique geology, having the presence of the youngest metamorphic core complexes on earth. If there is presently active subduction between it and the Solomon Sea plate, at the Trobriand Trough, it continues to be an active ...