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It is part of <a href="/wiki/Milne_Bay_Province" title="Milne Bay Province">Milne Bay Province</a> in southeastern <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. Mount Tanorabwa is the highest point on the island at 1,072 feet (327 m).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="People">People</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nuakata_Island&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: People"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The island is inhabited by about 500 people. The people of the island speak a dialect of the <a href="/wiki/%27Auhelawa_language" class="mw-redirect" title="'Auhelawa language">'Auhelawa language</a>, also spoken on the south coast of Normanby Island. They live in traditional settlements and practicing subsistence horticulture and some harvesting of sea resources such as fish, beche-de-mer and trochus for cash. An international NGO, <a href="/wiki/Conservation_International" title="Conservation International">Conservation International</a>, has selected the island for the future development of a community-based marine protected area.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Center. 1976. p. 310.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sailing+Directions+for+New+Guinea%3A+Includes+Halmahera+and+Islands+Southward&rft.pages=310&rft.pub=U.S.+Department+of+Defense%2C+Defense+Mapping+Agency%2C+Hydrographic+Center&rft.date=1976&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWe2TjFMpGdgC%26dq%3D%2522Nuakata%2BIsland%2522%2B-wikipedia%26pg%3DPA310&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANuakata+Island" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output 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