Tolokiwa Island, also known as Lottin Island, is an island in the

Bismarck Sea The Bismarck Sea (, ) lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean within the nation of Papua New Guinea. It is located northeast of the island of New Guinea and south of the Bismarck Archipelago. It has coastlines in districts of the Islands Region, ...

. The island is volcanic in origin and part of the

Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km. History The first inhabitants o ...

Description

Tolokiwa Island was built up by a series of volcanic eruptions during the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

epoch. The well-vegetated island is an important natural site for birds, and is home to several species of resident birds (which it unusually shares with nearby islands). Tolokiwa is also home to a subspecies of

Turdus Poliocephalus The island thrush (''Turdus poliocephalus'') is a common forest bird in the thrush family. Almost 50 subspecies have been described, ranging from South East Asia and Melanesia, to Samoa, exhibiting great differences in plumage. Several subspecie ...

. The island sustained damage during the 1888 eruption of nearby

Ritter Island Ritter Island is a small crescent-shaped volcanic island north-east of New Guinea, situated between Umboi Island and Sakar Island. There are several recorded eruptions of this basaltic-andesitic stratovolcano prior to a spectacular lateral coll ...

, which caused a tsunami to hit Tolokiwa.

References

Bismarck Archipelago Islands of Papua New Guinea {{Island-stub