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New Hanover Island (Papua New Guinea)
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| Geography | |
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| Archipelago | Bismarck Archipelago |
| Area | 1,186 km2 (457.9 sq mi) |
| Length | 60 km (37 mi) |
| Width | 30 km (19 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 900 m (3,000 ft) |
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Papua New Guinea
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| Province | New Ireland Province |
| District | Kavieng District |
| LLG | Lavongai Rural LLG |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 17,160 (as of 2000) |
| Density | 15.4 /km2 (39.9 /sq mi) |
New Hanover Island, (German: Neuhannover), also called Lavongai, is a large volcanic island in New Ireland Province, part of the Bismarck Archipelago of the New Guinea Islands region of Papua New Guinea, at . Measuring some 460 square miles (1,200 km2), it had a population of 5,000 in 1960 which increased to approximately 17,160 by 2000.[1]
Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind[2] reported in 1896, when discussing Melanesain ornament, that there were luxurious feather ornament displays in New Hanover, showing much taste in the combination of forms and colours with vegetable fibres and beads on sticks. An example was a delicately-formed face in feather-mosaic forming the head of a hairpin.