Tabar Islands
- MODIS image
- date unknown
The Tabar Islands (at left in the image) are located 24 km northwards from the central coast of the major island of New Ireland (visible, beneath the cloud cover, at the bottom-left corner of the image) and 51 km northeast form the Lihir island group (visible on the right of the image). The Tabar island group — forming part of the Bismarck Archipelago — consists of a short chain of three main islands — Tabar in the south, Tatau in the center, and Simberi in the north — as well as a number of smaller offshore islets.
Tabar Island measures 20 km in length and is up to 9 km across in the south, narrowing to 2 km in the centre; Tatau measures 16 km by 11 km, and Simberi, 8 km by 7 km. Tabar and Tatau are separated by a narrow channel of less than 1 km in width and appear as a single landmass in the above image.
image: MODIS rapid response project at nasa/goddard space flight center
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