Bismarck archipelago
The archipelago Bismarck is a group of islands to broad of the New Guinea in the south-west of the Pacific Ocean, named in the honor of the chancellor German Otto von Bismarck and pertaining to the New Guinea-News-Guinea.
The Archipel is mainly made up of volcanic islands. The most important islands are:
- Islands of Admiralty
- islands of the Duke of York
- islands Mussau
- New Britain
- island of the News-Hanover or Lavongai
- New Ireland
- islands Vitu
The first inhabitants of the archipelago arrived 33.000 years ago by the sea of what is now New Guinea New Guinea. Later, arrived of the populations Lapita.
The first European to discover these islands was a Dutch explorer Willem Schouten in 1616, but it were colonized by Europeans only when they became a territory of the Protectorat of the German New Guinea in 1884.
As of the release of the First World War in 1914, the Australian naval Task force seized some and the Australia received later a mandate on these islands the Société the Nations. They remained under Australian control — stopped only by one Japanese occupation during the second world war — until the independence of New Guinea New Guinea in 1975.
| Random links: | Rangers of Texas | Mae C. Jemison | Jerry McCain | Santa Cruz del Valle | Large sand desert | Peter_Lynch |