New Ireland

New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

New Ireland (Niu Ailan) is the second largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago and the third largest of all PNG's islands with an area of 7,405 km². The island is extremely narrow and elongated measuring 340 km in length; in width the island averages around 10 km across, widening in the south to 46 km.

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