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<ref>Hide, R.L., Allen, B.J., Bourke, R.M., Fritsch, D., Grau, R., Helepet, J.L., Hobsbawn, P., Lyon, S., Poienou, M., Pondrilei, S., Pouru, K., Sem, G. and Tewi, B. (2002). Manus Province: Text Summaries, Maps, Code Lists and Village Identification. Agricultural Systems of Papua New Guinea Working Paper No. 18. Land Management Group, Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. Revised edition.</ref>. Initial cooperative success was followed by financial collapse, and the plantation was later divided into blocks. |
<ref>Hide, R.L., Allen, B.J., Bourke, R.M., Fritsch, D., Grau, R., Helepet, J.L., Hobsbawn, P., Lyon, S., Poienou, M., Pondrilei, S., Pouru, K., Sem, G. and Tewi, B. (2002). Manus Province: Text Summaries, Maps, Code Lists and Village Identification. Agricultural Systems of Papua New Guinea Working Paper No. 18. Land Management Group, Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. Revised edition.</ref>. Initial cooperative success was followed by financial collapse, and the plantation was later divided into blocks. |
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Rambutyo Island is one of the Admiralty Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, located at 2°17′S 147°49′E / 2.283°S 147.817°E. Politically, Rambutyo Island is part of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.
Geography
Rambutyo Island is located 50 km SE of Manus Island, part of the Hornos Island Group. It is roughly triangular in shape with a base 16 km in diameter E-W. The centre of the island has a volcanic peak about 230 m high. Offshore lie important reef complexes.
The island was surveyed in 1958 by the Royal Australian Survey Corps.[1]
History
Sago is the most important local food but fishing supplements traded rice.[2]
European discovery of the island took place as part of the 1616 expedition by the Dutch navigators Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, who traversed Manus, Los Negros,Los Reyes, Pak, Naura, Rambutvo, Baluan, Sauwai, Lou, Tong other small islands.[3]
In 1885 the Admiralty Islands were declared a German Protectorate, administered by the New Guinea Company. German presence ended in 1914. They were governed by Australia until independence in 1975.
During World War II, the island was occupied by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. On 3 April 1944, Allied forces led by the U.S. 12th Cavalry Regiment landed on Rambutyo. By 23 April, the forces were withdrawn for mop-up by the native police force.
The Lengendrowa plantation on Rambutyo was bought in 1964 to form a cooperative, with 269 people moving from Mouk Island off Baluan [4]. Initial cooperative success was followed by financial collapse, and the plantation was later divided into blocks.
References
- ^ https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/115269 | Map in ANU repository (copyright expired)
- ^ Hide, R.L., Allen, B.J., Bourke, R.M., Fritsch, D., Grau, R., Helepet, J.L., Hobsbawn, P., Lyon, S., Poienou, M., Pondrilei, S., Pouru, K., Sem, G. and Tewi, B. (2002). Manus Province: Text Summaries, Maps, Code Lists and Village Identification. Agricultural Systems of Papua New Guinea Working Paper No. 18. Land Management Group, Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. Revised edition.
- ^ Tanner, Vasco M. (1951). Pacific Islands Herpetology No. IV, Admiralty Islands. Great Basin Naturalist 11: 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol11/iss1/1
- ^ Hide, R.L., Allen, B.J., Bourke, R.M., Fritsch, D., Grau, R., Helepet, J.L., Hobsbawn, P., Lyon, S., Poienou, M., Pondrilei, S., Pouru, K., Sem, G. and Tewi, B. (2002). Manus Province: Text Summaries, Maps, Code Lists and Village Identification. Agricultural Systems of Papua New Guinea Working Paper No. 18. Land Management Group, Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. Revised edition.
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