Parama Island

Parama Iceland (formerly Bampton Iceland ) is an island near the south coast of Papua New Guinea. It is located 17 km east of Daru Iceland, on which lies the provincial capital of the Western Province, on the southern end of the Fly River Delta, and at the same time is considered the northernmost of the Torres Strait Islands. Bampton Point, the southern cape of the island, marking the southwest corner of the Gulf of Papua. The Coral Sea lies to the southeast. The Torres Strait is to the south and southwest, specifically separates Great North East Channel, the Parama Iceland from the nearest Australian (Queensland ) island ( and thus also on the Great Barrier Reef ), from Bramble Cay, 48 km east-southeast.

Parama has an approximately rectangular shape, is 9.6 km long and up to 5.7 km wide, with a circumference of 27.7 km and an area of ​​37 km ². The island is low, flat and dominated by mangroves. It is separated from the main island of New Guinea by the Toro Passage, which is 400 to 700 meters wide and seven miles long, and 1.8 to 5.5 meters deep.

Administratively, the island is part of the Kwai Rural LLG (Local Level Government area) of the South Fly District in the Western Province.

The entire population of 441 ( census 2000) lives in the village Parama on the east coast of the Gulf of Papua. For 1991, a population of 240 was specified. Only a small area around the village is used for agriculture. The village consists of six districts communities. The clans that bear names of animals, from north to south (1991 ):

A recent list (1995 ) has only five clans after, and replaces Hegeredai and Oromorubi by Sobogu.

In the southwest of the island is Gaziro ( Gasiri ), a temporary fishing camp, which is also used by the population of the main island.

The fringing reef on the east coast before the village, the home reef is locally known as Podomaza.

Worimo Reef, a low-tide reef with rocks and sand, over which the waves break while the southeast winds, is eight kilometers south-east of Bampton Point. It extends further to the Merrie England Shoals, with depths of less than two meters.

Ellengowan skirt, a submarine rock with a depth of only 1.1 meters, lies 11 km east of Parama Iceland.

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