Admiralty Islands

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Admiralty Islands

A group of volcanic islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean in the Bismarck Archipelago. Inhabited for around 40,000 years, the islands are now part of Papua New Guinea.

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Admiralty Islands

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(Placename) a group of about 40 volcanic and coral islands in the SW Pacific, part of Papua New Guinea, in the Bismarck Archipelago: main island: Manus. Pop (whole province): 43 589 (2000). Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles). Also called: Admiralties

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Ad′miralty Is′lands

n.pl.

a group of islands in the SW Pacific, N of New Guinea. 30,160; ab. 800 sq. mi. (2070 sq. km).

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Admiralty Islands - a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago

Bismarck Archipelago - a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea

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But D'Entrecasteaux, ignoring this communication-- rather uncertain, besides--directed his course towards the Admiralty Islands, mentioned in a report of Captain Hunter's as being the place where La Perouse was wrecked.

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Newcomer Galerie Lemaire, one of the world's oldest tribal art galleries, shows a ceremonial dance skirt made out of snail shells from the Admiralty Islands (Fig.

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10, 1944, during World War II, the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded while moored at the Manus Naval Base in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific; the blast annihilated the Mount Hood and damaged nearby vessels, leaving 45 confirmed dead and 327 missing and presumed dead.

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Sourcing of this material both by relative density and later by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis indicated that obsidian was obtained both from closer sources in the Admiralty Islands and more distant ones on New Britain.

Identification of Fergusson Island obsidian on the Sepik coast of northern Papua New Guinea

Perhaps the most striking example of sex-biased language change however comes from a genetic study on the prehistoric encounter of expanding Polynesians with resident Melanesians in New Guinea and the neighboring Admiralty Islands. The New Guinean coast contains pockets of Polynesian-speaking areas separated by Melanesian areas.

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He drove us to the Admiralty Islands which can be seen from the North End of the Island.

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Lola Ramanucci-Ross, "The Hierarchy of Resort in Curative Practices: The Admiralty Islands, Melanesia," Journal of Health and Social Behavior 10 (1969): 119: quoted by Pilch, Healing in the New Testament, 75.

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A personal viewpoint of unfolding history, World War II: A Legacy of Letters chronicles Captain George's answer to President Roosevelt's desperate call for pilots, his service in the South Pacific, and his battles in New Guinea with the 7th Australian Infantry Division and the 1st Cavalry Division into the Admiralty Islands. A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this behind-the-scenes glimpse of life on and off battlefields in the sky and the ground.

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In addition, the station maintained constant communication with AWA owned stations at Aitape and Madang, on mainland New Guinea; Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands; Kavieng on New Ireland; Kieta on Bougainville; Marienberg Radio on the New Guinea Oilfields, and Bulolo and Salamoa on the New Guinea Goldfields.