Nuguria

The Nuguria Islands (also Nukuria, Abgarris or Fead Islands) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. You are 200 km northeast of New Ireland and consist of two atolls, the larger Nuguria and the smaller Malum, 4 km from the lies of the north-western tip of the Nukuria Atolls and separated from them by deeper water, and the small island of Sable Iceland in south. The archipelago has a total of a total land area of 10 km ². The total of around 500 inhabitants settle all the southern Nuguria Atoll; the smaller Malum Atoll is uninhabited.

The Nuguria Islands belong to Papua New Guinea and are therefore politically part of Melanesia. Administratively, they are part of the atoll Local Level Government of North Bougainville District in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Culturally, include the atolls due to the polynesischstämmigen population to the enclaves of Polynesia, which lie outside of the Polynesian triangle.

The islands were discovered in 1822 by the American whaling ship Abgarris for the Western world in 1826 rediscovered by the British merchant Renneck and called Fead Islands.