Woodlark Island

Woodlark, also known as Muyua, Muyuw or Murua, is an island east of the island of New Guinea.

Geography

Woodlark is 739 km ² and forms with their side islands Murua Local Level Government Area of Samarai - Murua District, Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, which also includes the Alcester Islands in the south and the Marshall Bennett Islands are in the southwest. The highest point is the 410 meter Suloga peak on a small peninsula in the south. Woodlark is the main island of Woodlark Islands, are among the more than 20 islands.

At the 2000 census had the main island has a population of 3151 in 14 villages and a separate facility. The largest villages were Wabununa ( 469 ) and Guasopa ( 358, with the only runway of the island) in the southeast, and Kaurai (317 ) on the north coast. In addition, three other villages on the west upstream side island Madau: Madau (307) Muneiveyova (273 ) and Boagis (178 ), and one on the south barrier island Mapas (104 ): f1 map with all coordinates: OSM, Google and Bing

The spoken language on the island is called Muyuw.

History

Under the name Operation Chronicle landed on 30 June 1943, the Allied forces on the Woodlark Island and Kiriwina. A small Japanese occupation force was quickly defeated, and sporadic air attacks required only minor losses. A few months after landing Navy SeaBees had already built a large military airfield in the Guasopa Bay, which was (later than Guasopa - airport) as Woodlark Airfield known.

Fauna

The island has a rich fauna. There lived there a whole range of mammals:

  • Wild Boar ( Sus scrofa) - introduced
  • Pacific rat (Rattus exulans ) - introduced
  • Phalanger lullulae ( a couscous - type )
  • Sugar Glider ( Petaurus Brevizeps )
  • Melomys lutillus ( a mosaic rat tail type )
  • Rattus mordax ( a species of rat )
  • Dobsonia pannietensis ( a nude back bats Style)
  • Nyctimene major ( a tube nose bats Style)
  • Glasses flying fox ( Pteropus conspicillatus )
  • Island Flying Fox ( Pteropus hypomelanus )
  • Syconycteris australis ( a long tongue bats Style)
  • Emballonura beccarii ( a species of bat of the genus group Emballonura )
  • Emballonura nigrescens - as well
  • Aselliscus tricuspidatus ( a species of bat of the genus Aselliscus )
  • Hipposideros ater ( a bat )
  • Rhinolophus megaphyllus ( a bat species of horseshoe bats )
  • Kerivoula agnella ( a species of bat of the genus Kerivoula )
  • Miniopterus australis ( a type of long- wing bats)
  • Miniopterus macrocneme - as well
  • Miniopterus propitristis - as well
  • Schreiber's bat ( Miniopterus schreibersii )
Allies Polynesian rat Spectacled flying fox Dusky leaf-nosed bat
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