Bougainville Island
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Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Solomon Islands group.
Bougainville, the adjacent island of Buka, and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets are sometimes known as North Solomons. Together they make up the Papua New Guinean province of that name. The population is 175,160 (2000 census).
The island is ecologically and geographically, although not politically, part of the Solomon Islands. Buka, Bougainville, and most of the Solomons are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion.
Louis Antoine de Bougainville named the island after himself.
[edit] See also
- Bougainville Province
- Bougainville campaign (1944-45)
- Empress Augusta Bay
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
