Area Maps
- Central and Southwestern Pacific Ocean
- Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Western Islands
- War time map of the Bismarck Archipelago
- The Western Islands and Manus Island
- The Western Islands
- Early Maps
- Links to Maps of Interest
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Central and Southwestern Pacific Ocean
Central and Southwestern Pacific Ocean © 1996 Brandon Plewe
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Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Western Islands
Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Western Islands
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War time map of The Bismarck Archipelago
War time map of the Bismarck Archipelago and part of the Western Islands (Wuvulu, Aua, Manu and the Anchorites islands are missing)
Source: U.S. Army Center of Military History - War Department, March 1947, General Order No. 24, CAMPAIGNS, WORLD WAR II-List of battles and compaigns, ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATER, 14. Bismarck Archipelago. (Fig. 14.)
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The Western Islands and Manus Island
![The Western Islands & Manus Is. [FRB map]](images/map-western-islands-manus.gif)
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The Western Islands
![The Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago [FRB map]](images/map-western-islands.gif)
The Western Islands
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Early Maps
Descripcion de las Indias del Poniente by Antonio de Herrera, Madrid 1601
The oldest known map of New Guinea and the Western Islands
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Links to Maps of Interest
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The Western Islands
The north coast of Papua New Guinea and the Western Islands - area is 3.52 deg. wide by 1.40 deg. (96.60 miles) high.
Western Islands - area is 2.80 deg. wide by 1.38 deg. (95.22 miles) high.
Wuvulu and Aua islands - area is 0.72 deg. wide by 0.32 deg. (22.08 miles) high.
Wuvulu, Aua, Manu and Sumasuma Islands - area is 1.40 deg. wide by 0.65 deg. (44.85 miles) high.
The Ninigo Group and Liot Island - area is 0.90 deg. wide by 0.40 deg. (27.60 miles) high.
The Hermit Group - area is 0.56 deg. wide by 0.25 deg. (17.25 miles) high.
Above maps ©1997 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center -
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Above maps ©1996 NGS Cartographic Division. Developed in association with GeoSystems Global Corp.
Papua New Guinea - University of Michigan, ca 1980. Large shaded relief map (176214 bytes)
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Oceania
Pacific Islands - ©1996 MAGELLAN Geographix Santa Barbara, CA (800) 929-4MAP
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