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New Ireland structure is a thin island trending North- West with several narrow necks, situated between one and five degress south of the equator, covering area of approximately 9'600 square kilometers. It's a beutifull place with a freindly helpful atmosphere. Little is known and rarely visited, it has one of Papua New Guinea's longest records of contact with the European civilization. From the early 1600's Europeans aere sailing into St. George's channel and taking on fresh water at the islands southern tip at Cape St. George. New Ireland has broad white sand beaches, rivers of clean water running out of thick tropical jungle with abundant natural wild life. New Ireland has 149 islands spread over 230'000sq kilometers of sea. The biggest being Lavongai better known as New Hanover island located off the North West- end.

A distance from the east coast of the main island are the Tabar, Lihir (location of the Gold Mine), Tanga and Feni island groups. Further towards the Admirality Islands is the Mussau in the St.Matthias group and the smaller islands of Emirau and Tench. Kavieng is the main town, small but tidy and currently being constructed is a new International airport which will make travelling to peaceful New Ireland easier for you. Previously one had to take the capital city route (Port Moresby) which to many can be difficult at times. In Kavieng you can start your tour of New Ireland whether back packing or consult one of our tour operators who will assist you to discover the wonders of New Ireland.

HISTORY: Remains of rock shelters found near Namatanai suggest that New Ireland was inhabited 30'000 years ago. There's evidence of trade 12'000 years ago and lapita ceremic items (3'700 years old) have been found at Eloaua island in the St. Matthias group. The Dutch explorers, Schouten and Le Mare sighted New Ireland 1516 and 1517. Methodists missionaries began arriving in the 1875's. The legendary Rev. George Brown arrived at Kalil after having started a mission at Port Hunter in the Duke of York islands. "Black birding" in the 1870's saw many New Irelanders forcibly removed to work in the plantations and cane fields of Queensland (Australia) and Samoa.

History tell us that Marquis de Ray never set foot on New Ireland yet, he used the details of a ship's log to sell hundreds of hectares of land to gullible, would-be settlers. In 1879 he had raised US$50'000.00, but many of the colonist paid with there lives as well as their savings. The Marquis had advertised Cape Breton, near Lambom island off Cape St. George, as a thriving settlement with fertile soil, perpetual sunlight and freindly natives. In fact it was a tangled jungle where the rainfall was so heavy that, even today there is virtually no development. The Marquis sent four shiploads of European land buyers to southern New Ireland. With only a few weeks supplies and such useful equipment as amill for an area where grain would never grow, the settlers soon started to die like flies. The pitiful survivors were eventually rescued by Thomas and Emma Farrell (Queen Emma). The Marquis ended his days in a French asylum.

During the German reign, New Ireland became one of the most profitable parts of the colony. Under German administrator Baron Boluminski, a string of copra plantations were developed along the east coast and so began the famous Boluminski highway. You can pay a visit to the grave of Boluminski situated in Bagail cemetery on Nusa parade. Then WWII developed and soon after Kavieng fell to the Japanese forces on the 23rd January 1942. Kavieng became a stronghold of the Japanese empire of which several WWII relics and bunkers can be toured in and around the town

Do you know who named "New Ireland" and why, Criminal?

Originally posted by suicidalmarchingband
Do you know who named "New Ireland" and why, Criminal?
I don't know but I can assume that it was so named because it was near the Island of New Britian.

In the era of discovery it was common for explorers to name places after their homeland, even though these lands were very different from their namesake. For instance, New Caledonia (which refers to the southern part of Scotland) is very different from Scotland. Often these names were given in able to make the lands more attractive to settlement. New Ireland had been, in fact, a colony where many Europeans were transported. In spite of very attractive descriptions of the island, the Europeans found only disease and starvation. Today almost no europeans live there.

Strange I'd never heard of it before.

New Guinea fascinates me too, but mostly because it is the only place in which the disease of kuru exists.

Kuru is a fatal disease connected to the central nervous system and caused by cannabalism. Mad cow is similar in nature to kuru.

:)

Originally posted by SpabSFW
New Guinea fascinates me too, but mostly because it is the only place in which the disease of kuru exists.

Kuru is a fatal disease connected to the central nervous system and caused by cannabalism. Mad cow is similar in nature to kuru.

:)
Yup...

My dad was there during the war. He got malaria and dysantary along with everyone else there. There are also diseases such as elephantitus which leaves limbs enlarged and even causes genitles to become deformed.

There are 5 inch centipedes which will squirt poison into men's eyes leaving them blinded for life.

I know this one dude who went to Indonesia for vacation and came back blind from some illness. The doctors said it would be temporary but it never went away.

Originally posted by Criminal

Yup...

My dad was there during the war. He got malaria and dysantary along with everyone else there. There are also diseases such as elephantitus which leaves limbs enlarged and even causes genitles to become deformed.

There are 5 inch centipedes which will squirt poison into men's eyes leaving them blinded for life.

I know this one dude who went to Indonesia for vacation and came back blind from some illness. The doctors said it would be temporary but it never went away.

I have a fetish for unusual fatal illnesses and New Guinea has a lot to offer in that respect. :)

New Guinea is :cool:io~

Neat post, thanks Crimmy. :D

Originally posted by Criminal
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So the locals have reached the same level of civilisation as their namesake, eh?

:p

The man with the freeze-dried sneer, yet again, who speaks on behalf of what?

Civilization, hah!

Another tiresome, unoriginal advocate of civilized barbarity who can give the world only his spleen and bile and has the gall to call butchery the apogee of cultural achievement.

Originally posted by suicidalmarchingband
The man with the freeze-dried sneer, yet again, who speaks on behalf of what?

I have a freeze dried sneer? You learn something new every day.

Here I was thinking I made a harmless joke to annoy spab. :o

Let me explain it to you, since you seem to have entirely missed the point:

New Ireland is a very undeveloped place; they have not yet really developed civilisation as it is commonly known.

Ireland has historically been slightly less developed than most of the rest of western Europe.

By comparing New Ireland to Ireland, I make a joke which will annoy those obsessed with Ireland, such as Spab. That is all.

Did someone piss in your porridge this morning or something?

My apologies, kriz, but teenage-student-nazis tend to aggravate my morning hangover.
It's such a dull cliche.

lol, if you're hungover I understand. What I don't understand is how you can use your computer when hungover. When I'm hungover all I want to do is lie in the dark, drinking weak tea and tonic water and eating plain scrambled eggs and vitamins.

Computers give me headaches in the best of times. The thought of using a computer in that condition makes me ill.

Chris, I read it yesterday and I did smile.

You couldn't know but it often delightz me that, until recently, you have often been the only one to post regularly in my stupid Irish threadz even if it's just to pick on Irish in a little way. Often you have a point, which I never admit here, but makes me smile on this end whether you see it or not.

I don't demand my beloved Irish be perfect. If they were, they wouldn't be vulnerable, and we all know how much I like vulnerabiity.

:D

As for this morning, if you guyz are trying to entertain me, it's working. Nice workout on the vocabulary and unusual images, smb. And chris, I think that's the first time you've posted anything remotely personal and it's interesting.