Deboyne Islands

The Deboyne Islands are an archipelago in the Salomonensee. Politically they belong to the Milne Bay Province in the southeast area of Papua New Guinea. You are 13 km from Misima and 5 km from the Torlesse Islands.

The main islands of the group are Panaeati, the northernmost island ( 30.32 km ² ) with the small offshore in the southeastern island of Pana Uya Wana Iceland, and Panapompom in the center of the lagoon ( 7.72 km ² ) with the small offshore in the South Island Nivani. A more recent source indicates areas at 30.1 and 6.8 km ² for these two largest islands in the group.

Table of Islands

Overview of Deboyne Islands: f1 map with all coordinates: OSM, Google and Bing

History

Joseph Bruny d' Entrecasteaux in 1793 discovered the archipelago and named it after Pierre Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes, the former Marine and Colonial Minister of France.

Population

On Panaeati lived 2004 1318 people in 254 households and 392 people in 84 households Panapompom

Compared to the 2000 census, these figures had changed little: 1717 inhabitants in total, of 1314 inhabitants in nine villages and a separate facility on Panaeati, and 403 residents in three villages on Panapompom. In addition, an uninhabited village were ever listed on each of the two inhabited islands.

The settlements in the main island Panaeati are all situated on the south coast of the island, facing the lagoon.

F1 map with all coordinates: OSM, Google and Bing

Other small uninhabited islands, all on the east side of the atoll, are Losai Iceland, Iceland Passage, Rara Iceland, and Nibub Islet.

On the islands of Misima - Paneati is spoken, a language that is also used by the inhabitants of the Calvados Islands, whose spokesman, however, live to 90% on Misima.