Choiseul Island
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  Choiseul Choiseul Island (off the coast of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea) | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Solomon Islands |
| Coordinates | 7°05′S 157°00′E / 7.08°S 157.0°E |
| Area | 2,971 km2 (1,147 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 1,067 m (3501 ft) |
| Highest point | Mount Maetambe |
| Administration | |
Solomon Islands | |
| Province | Choiseul Province |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 36,719 (2020) |
Choiseul Island, native name Lauru,[1] is the largest island (2,971 km2 (1,147 sq mi)) of the Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands, at 7°05′S 157°00′E / 7.08°S 157°E. The administrative headquarters of Choiseul Province is situated in the town of Taro, on Taro Island.
History
In 1768, the French explorer
The first recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of
In the nineteenth century Choiseul islanders suffered attacks from blackbirding (the often brutal recruitment or kidnapping of labourers for the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji).
In April 1885, the
The Austrian anthropologist and photographer Hugo Bernatzik visited Choiseul in 1932. Bernatzik documented some of the few remaining ancestral customs of the island people and described them in an ethnography that he published a few years later. He also took some photographs of the islanders and brought back a stone urn with carvings, reflecting a culture that he deemed was dying in contact with the modern world.[4]
During
Following the independence of the Solomon Islands in July 1978, Choiseul has been administered as part of Choiseul Province.
Environment
Mount Maetambe – Kolombangara River Important Bird Area
This 78,398 ha site in central Choiseul has been identified by
See also
References
- ^ Hugo Bernatzik, Südsee; ein Reisebuch, first edition Leipzig 1934
- ^ Sharp, Andrew The discovery of the Pacific Islands Oxford, 1960, p.45.
- ^ Brand, Donald D. The Pacific Basin: A History of its Geographical Explorations The American Geographical Society, New York, 1967, p.133.
- Owa Raha. Büchergilde Gutenberg, Vienna / Zürich / Prague, 1936
- ^ Shaw, Henry & Kane, Douglas, Isolation of Rabaul, 1963, p. 194.
- ^ "Mount Maetambe – Kolombangara River". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
External links
Media related to Choiseul, Solomon Islands at Wikimedia Commons
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