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	Lihir Group NASA Lihir can refer to: * Lihir Group, an island group in Papua New Guinea * Lihir Island, the main island in the group * Lihir language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir island group * Lihir Gold Lihir Gold Limited was a gold mining company with operations in Papua New Guinea, Australia and West Africa. The company, incorporated in Papua New Guinea in June 1995, and named Lihir as its first project was to raise capital to build the Lihir ... , a gold mining company {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lihir Group Lihir Group is an island group in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ..., located north of New Ireland, at . It is a part of Bismarck Archipelago. Largest island of the group is Lihir (a.k.a. Niolam), other islands include: Mali, Mahur, Masahet and Sanambiet. External links Photos from Lihir IslandLihir Gold Mine Archipelagoes of Papua New Guinea Bismarck Archipelago New Ireland Province {{NewIrelandProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lihir Island Lihir Island (a.k.a. Niolam Island) is the largest island in the Lihir group of islands, 22 km long and 14.5 km wide, in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland Province. It consists of a complex of several overlapping basaltic stratovolcanoes rising 700 m above sea level. While the volcanoes are not currently active, geothermal activity is still present. The island is in what was the forearc basin associated with the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North Bismarck Plate. Subduction stopped about 10 million years ago with the collision of the Ontong Java plateau with the subduction zone. The name ''Lihir'' comes from the Patpatar language, cognate of the native name ''Lir''. ''Niolam'', also spelled ''Nualam'' or ''Nuolam'', means "big island" (''nua'' "island" + ''lam'' "big"). The island is located NE of Port Moresby. Annual rainfall averages ; temperature ranges between 19 and 35 degrees Celsius. The population of the Lihir Group increased from 12,570 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lihir Language The Lihir language (''Lir'') is an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir island group, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. It is notable for having 5 levels of grammatical number: singular, dual, trial, paucal and plural. It is questionable whether the trial is indeed trial or whether it is paucal, leaving there being a paucal and a greater paucal. Either way, this is the highest number of levels of grammatical number in any language. This distinction appears in both independent pronouns and possessor suffixes. There is some variation in pronunciation and orthography between the main island Niolam, and some of the smaller islands in the group. Name The name ''Lihir'' is an exonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ... from the related Patpatar language. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]