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data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_(isola)" title="Manus (isola) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Manus (isola)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="მანუსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მანუსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B" title="Манус ошмаоты – Western Mari" 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.infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:260px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:260px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:260px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Manus Island is located in Papua New Guinea"><img alt="Manus Island is located in Papua New Guinea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg/260px-Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg/390px-Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg/520px-Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg.png 2x" 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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 .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Manus_Island&params=2.1_S_146.9_E_scale:400000_type:isle_region:PG"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">2°06′S</span> <span class="longitude">146°54′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">2.1°S 146.9°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-2.1; 146.9</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Archipelago</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Islands" title="Admiralty Islands">Admiralty Islands</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">2,100 km<sup>2</sup> (810 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">100 km (60 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Width</th><td class="infobox-data">30 km (19 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation</th><td class="infobox-data">718 m (2356 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest point</th><td class="infobox-data">Mt. Dremsel</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Administration</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div><b>Papua New Guinea (PNG)</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Province</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manus_Province" title="Manus Province">Manus Province</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest settlement</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lorengau" title="Lorengau">Lorengau</a> (pop. 5,829)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Demographics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">50,321 (province)<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> (2011)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Manus Island</b> is part of <a href="/wiki/Manus_Province" title="Manus Province">Manus Province</a> in northern <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> and is the largest of the <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Islands" title="Admiralty Islands">Admiralty Islands</a>. It is the fifth-largest island in Papua New Guinea, with an area of 2,100 km<sup>2</sup> (810 sq mi), measuring around 100 km × 30 km (60 mi × 20 mi). Manus Island is covered in rugged jungles which can be broadly described as lowland <a href="/wiki/Tropical_rain_forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical rain forest">tropical rain forest</a>. The highest point on Manus Island is Mt. Dremsel, 718 metres (2,356 ft) above sea level at the centre of the south coast. Manus Island is <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_rock" title="Volcanic rock">volcanic</a> in origin and probably broke through the ocean's surface in the late <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a>, 8 to 10 million years ago. The substrate of the island is either directly volcanic or from uplifted <a href="/wiki/Coral" title="Coral">coral</a> <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Lorengau" title="Lorengau">Lorengau</a>, the capital of Manus Province, is located on the island. <a href="/wiki/Momote_Airport" title="Momote Airport">Momote Airport</a>, the terminal for Manus Province, is located on nearby <a href="/wiki/Los_Negros_Island" title="Los Negros Island">Los Negros Island</a>. A bridge connects Los Negros Island to Manus Island and the provincial capital of Lorengau. In the 2000 census, the whole Manus Province had a population of 50,321. The Austronesian <a href="/wiki/Manus_languages" title="Manus languages">Manus languages</a> are spoken on the island. </p><p>Papua New Guinea allowed the government of Australia to run a controversial offshore immigration detention centre, the <a href="/wiki/Manus_Regional_Processing_Centre" title="Manus Regional Processing Centre">Manus Regional Processing Centre</a>, which was situated on adjacent Los Negros Island from 2001 to 2017, to house asylum seekers arriving by boat found within Australia's defined territorial borders. </p><p>Manus Island is home to the <a href="/wiki/Emerald_green_snail" title="Emerald green snail">emerald green snail</a>, whose shells were harvested to be sold as jewellery; this continues, albeit at a lesser scale, as due to the snail's status as a threatened species, its sale for this purpose is now illegal in many jurisdictions. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first recorded sighting of Manus Island by Europeans was by Spanish explorer <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Saavedra_Cer%C3%B3n" title="Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón">Álvaro de Saavedra</a> on board the <a href="/wiki/Carrack" title="Carrack">carrack</a> <i>Florida</i> on 15 August 1528, while trying to return to <a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Maluku_Islands" title="Maluku Islands">Maluku Islands</a>. Saavedra circled Manus Island, and landed possibly on Murai <a href="/wiki/Islet" title="Islet">islet</a> to the south west. Murai was found to be inhabited and some natives came out in <a href="/wiki/Canoes" class="mw-redirect" title="Canoes">canoes</a>, attacking with <a href="/wiki/Bow_(weapon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bow (weapon)">bows</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arrow" title="Arrow">arrows</a>. Three of these men were captured by the Spaniards, and were returned by Saavedra to the same island, on his second attempt to return to North America the following year. Manus Island was charted as <i>Urays la Grande</i> or Big Urays, which is probably a projection of Murai to signify "big Murai".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> Manus Island was the site of an observation post manned by No. 4 Section, 'B' Platoon, <a href="/wiki/1st_Independent_Company_(Australia)" title="1st Independent Company (Australia)">1st Independent Company</a>, Australian Imperial Force,<sup id="cite_ref-Klemen_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klemen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who also provided medical treatment to the inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Manus was first bombed by the Japanese on 25 January 1942, the radio mast being the main target.<sup id="cite_ref-Klemen_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klemen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 April 1942 an Imperial Japanese force consisting of the light cruiser <a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tatsuta_(1918)" title="Japanese cruiser Tatsuta (1918)"><i>Tatsuta</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Mutsuki" title="Japanese destroyer Mutsuki">destroyer <i>Mutsuki</i></a> and a troop transport ship <i>Mishima Maru</i> entered <a href="/wiki/Lorengau" title="Lorengau">Lorengau</a> harbour and several hundred Japanese soldiers of the 8th Special Base Force swarmed ashore onto the Australian-mandated island. The vastly outnumbered Australians withdrew into the jungle to fight a guerilla campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-Klemen_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klemen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later in 1942, Japan established a military base on Manus Island, using prisoners of war (notably Sikh prisoners of the 5th/11th Sikh regiment taken in the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore" title="Fall of Singapore">Fall of Singapore</a>) as slave labor.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The island was attacked by United States forces in the <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Islands_campaign" title="Admiralty Islands campaign">Admiralty Islands campaign</a> of February – March 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> naval base was established at <a href="/wiki/Seeadler_Harbor" title="Seeadler Harbor">Seeadler Harbor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manus_Naval_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Manus Naval Base">Manus Naval Base</a>, on the island and it later supported the <a href="/wiki/British_Pacific_Fleet" title="British Pacific Fleet">British Pacific Fleet</a>. The ammunition ship <a href="/wiki/USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-11)" title="USS Mount Hood (AE-11)">USS <i>Mount Hood</i></a> exploded in Seeadler Harbor on 10 November 1944 with a heavy loss of life of US Navy personnel. </p><p>In 1950–51 the Australian government conducted the last trials against <a href="/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes" title="Japanese war crimes">Japanese war criminals</a> on the island.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One case heard was that of <a href="/wiki/Takuma_Nishimura" title="Takuma Nishimura">Takuma Nishimura</a>, who faced an Australian military court. He had already been tried by a British military court in relation to the <a href="/wiki/Sook_Ching_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sook Ching massacre">Sook Ching massacre</a> in Singapore and sentenced to life imprisonment. While on a stopover in Hong Kong he was intercepted by Australian military police. Evidence was presented stating that Nishimura had ordered the shootings of wounded Australian and Indian soldiers at <a href="/wiki/Parit_Sulong_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Parit Sulong massacre">Parit Sulong</a> and the disposal of bodies to cover up the killings. In this trial he was found guilty and was hanged on 11 June 1951. </p><p>American <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mead" title="Margaret Mead">Margaret Mead</a> lived on Manus Island before and after the war, and gave detailed accounts in <i>Growing up in New Guinea</i> and <i>New Lives for Old</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Detention_centre">Detention centre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Detention centre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Manus_Regional_Processing_Centre" title="Manus Regional Processing Centre">Manus Regional Processing Centre</a></div> <p>In addition to its resident population, asylum seekers have been located on Los Negros between 2001 and 2004 and since 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Australia set up the Manus Regional Processing Centre on Manus Island in 2001 as part of its <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Solution" title="Pacific Solution">Pacific Solution</a> immigration policy. In August 2012, the Australian Government controversially<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> announced it would resume offshore processing; in November 2012 the relocation of asylum-seekers to Manus Island resumed.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 26 April 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Papua_New_Guinea" title="Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea">Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea</a> ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island was illegal,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Neill" title="Peter O'Neill">Peter O'Neill</a> announced that the centre would be closed.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a stand-off involving PNG military and police, all remaining men were removed to new accommodation at the East Lorengau Refugee Transit Centre, Hillside Haus and West Lorengau Haus<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by 23 November 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-aust-last-gone_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aust-last-gone-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian-refuse_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-refuse-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 2019, the remaining asylum seekers were moved to <a href="/wiki/Port_Moresby" title="Port Moresby">Port Moresby</a>, and upon request by the PNG government, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Government" title="Australian Government">Australian Government</a> terminated the contracts of the service providers for the detention centre and other facilities as of 30 November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-senateoct19_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-senateoct19-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Naval_bases">Naval bases</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Naval bases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USCGC_Oliver_Henry_(WPC_1140)_crew_arrives_in_Manus,_Papua_New_Guinea,_on_Aug._14,_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/USCGC_Oliver_Henry_%28WPC_1140%29_crew_arrives_in_Manus%2C_Papua_New_Guinea%2C_on_Aug._14%2C_2022.jpg/220px-USCGC_Oliver_Henry_%28WPC_1140%29_crew_arrives_in_Manus%2C_Papua_New_Guinea%2C_on_Aug._14%2C_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/USCGC_Oliver_Henry_%28WPC_1140%29_crew_arrives_in_Manus%2C_Papua_New_Guinea%2C_on_Aug._14%2C_2022.jpg/330px-USCGC_Oliver_Henry_%28WPC_1140%29_crew_arrives_in_Manus%2C_Papua_New_Guinea%2C_on_Aug._14%2C_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/USCGC_Oliver_Henry_%28WPC_1140%29_crew_arrives_in_Manus%2C_Papua_New_Guinea%2C_on_Aug._14%2C_2022.jpg/440px-USCGC_Oliver_Henry_%28WPC_1140%29_crew_arrives_in_Manus%2C_Papua_New_Guinea%2C_on_Aug._14%2C_2022.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2250" /></a><figcaption>PNG Defence Force and United States Coast Guard patrol boats at Manus Island in 2022</figcaption></figure> <p>On 20 September 2018, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Australian" title="The Australian">The Australian</a></i> reported that Australia and Papua New Guinea were discussing providing port facilities to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Navy" title="Royal Australian Navy">Royal Australian Navy</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">US Navy</a> on Manus Island.<sup id="cite_ref-theaustralian2018-09-20_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theaustralian2018-09-20-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Australia and the United States would help expand <a href="/wiki/Lombrum_Naval_Base" title="Lombrum Naval Base">Lombrum Naval Base</a>, so there would be facilities for Australian naval vessels there.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The newspaper reported that Australia was countering interest China had placed in expanding Papua New Guinea's port facilities at <a href="/wiki/Wewak" title="Wewak">Wewak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kikori" title="Kikori">Kikori</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vanimo" title="Vanimo">Vanimo</a> and Manus Island. Manus Island is the most important of these four ports, as it is a deep-water port near important shipping lanes. The RAN operated a naval base on Manus Island from the 1950s until transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_Defence_Force" title="Papua New Guinea Defence Force">Papua New Guinea Defence Force</a> in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-Janes7778_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Janes7778-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interstellar_meteor">Interstellar meteor</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Interstellar meteor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2022, the 2014 meteor called <a href="/wiki/CNEOS_2014-01-08" title="CNEOS 2014-01-08">CNEOS 2014-01-08</a> was confirmed to have been the first known object from beyond the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a> to have struck Earth. Some debris had reached the surface off the coast of Manus Island and may be recoverable.<sup id="cite_ref-SciAm_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SciAm-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Islands_languages" title="Admiralty Islands languages">Admiralty Islands languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manus_languages" title="Manus languages">Manus languages</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manus_Island&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://citypopulation.de/PapuaNewGuinea.html">"Papua New Guinea"</a>. <i>citypopulation.de</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927072501/http://www.citypopulation.de/PapuaNewGuinea.html">Archived</a> from the original on 27 September 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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