Volcanoes of Bougainville - Carteret Islands, Takuu, Billy Mitchell, Bagana, Mount Balbi, Tore, Loloru, Takuan Group, Emperor Range (Paperback)

Chapters: Carteret Islands, Takuu, Billy Mitchell, Bagana, Mount Balbi, Tore, Loloru, Takuan Group, Emperor Range. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Carteret Islands (also known as Carteret Atoll, Tulun or Kilinailau Islands/Atoll) are Papua New Guinea islands located north-east of Bougainville in the South Pacific. The atoll has a scattering of low-lying islands called Han, Jangain, Yesila, Yolasa and Piul, in a horseshoe shape stretching in north-south direction, with a total land area of 0.6 square kilometers and a maximum elevation of above sea level. The group is made up of islands collectively named after the British navigator Philip Carteret who was the first European to discover them, arriving in the sloop Swallow in 1767. As of 2005 about one thousand people live on the islands. Han is the most significant island with the others being small islets around the lagoon. The main settlement is at Weteili on Han island. The island is near the edge of the large geologic formation called the Ontong Java Plateau. When visited in 1830 by Benjamin Morrell in the schooner Antarctic, several islands had a native population which was growing several crops. One small island was uninhabited and covered with heavy timber. With the approval of the area's ruler Morrell's crew began construction on the southwest corner of the island in the northeast part of the atoll, with the intent to harvest snail meat and edible bird nests for the Chinese market. Departing after a fatal attack on his crew, Morrell named the islands the Massacre Islands. Food staples have been cultivated taro and coconut and fishing supports the people. The area had been inhabited for about 1,000 years before European contact in about 1880, when the copra trade and other activities ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=329012