Buka Island (Papua New Guinea)
Enlarge text Shrink text-
Place
|
מספר מערכת
987007553868605171
Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
בוקה (פפואה גיניאה החדשה : אי)
Name (Latin)
Buka Island (Papua New Guinea)
Coordinates
154.6333333 154.6333333 -5.25 -5.25 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Islands Papua New Guinea
See Also From tracing place name
Solomon Islands
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q860540
Library of congress:
sh 91002003
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Rimoldi, M. Hahalis and the labour of love, 1991.
- Lippincott:p. 287.
- Old catalog heading(Buka Island)
- Web. geog.:p. 187.
Wikipedia description:
Buka Island (pronounced: [buːkə]) is the second-largest island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It is in Buka Rural LLG of North Bougainville District, with the Autonomous Region's and district's capital city of Buka on the island. The island is separated by the narrow Buka Passage from the northwestern coast of Bougainville Island, and has an area of approximately 500 km2 (190 sq mi). Buka, Bougainville Island and the Tabar Islands and their surrounding waters are identified as being part of the Solomon Archipelago terrestrial ecoregion and marine ecoregion.
Read more on Wikipedia >