The Dumoulin Islands are an uninhabited group of islands in
Louisiade Archipelago
The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands in Papua New Guinea.
It is located 200 km southeast of New Guinea, stretching over more than and spread ...
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The Dumoulin Islands belong to the western foothills of Louisiade archipelago. They lie south of
Sideia Island
Sideia Island is an island in the Louisiade Archipelago in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
Administration
The island is part of the following Wards:
* Sauasauaga, on the southwest cape. (This Ward is mostly on Sariba)
* Gotai, on the so ...
and east of
Brumer Islands. The archipelago consists of four big islands and two small islands.
The four islands rise from an undersea shelf of about in length up to above sea level. The islands measuring just a few hundred meters in diameter. They are hilly, wooded with steep slopes and cliffs and dense. Baiiri, the largest island, is located at the western end of the group, the second largest island Ana Karu Karua at the eastern end.
In the north of the Dumoulin Islands is a large area of shoals and reefs (
Siriki Shoals), the south is a long undersea barrier reef.
The people of
Wari have copra plantations on Baiiri.
The first recorded sighting by Europeans of Dumoulin Islands was by the Spanish expedition of
Luís Vaez de Torres
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...
on 20 July 1606.
[Hilder, Brett ''The voyage of Torres'', Brisbane, 1980, pp.26]
References
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Islands of Papua New Guinea