Topographic map of Choiseul |
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Choiseul Island (off the coast of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea)
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| Location | Solomon Islands |
| Area | 2,971 km2 (1,147.1 sq mi) |
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Solomon Islands
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| Province | Choiseul Province |
Choiseul Island, native name Lauru[1], is the largest island (2 971 km²) of the Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands, at .
This island is named after Étienne François, duc de Choiseul.
Choiseul was visited by Austrian anthropologist and photographer Hugo Bernatzik in 1932. Bernatzik documented some of the few remaining ancestral customs of the island people which are included in an ethnography that he published a few years later. He also took some photographs of the islanders and brought back a stone urn with carvings, reflecting a culture that he deemed was dying in contact with the modern world.[2]
The administrative headquarters of Choiseul Province is situated in the town of Taro.
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