New Hanover Island
New Hanover Island, also called Lavongai or Lovongai, is a large volcanic island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. This region is part of the Bismarck Archipelago and lies at.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Labongai”, “Lavongai”, and “Neu-Hannover”
New Hanover Island
- Categories: volcanic island, locality, and landform
- Location: New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.49379° or 2° 29′ 38″ south
Longitude
150.24878° or 150° 14′ 56″ east
Population
17,200
Elevation
348 metres (1,142 feet)
Open location code
6R9GG64X+FG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“New Hanover Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة نيو هانوفر”
- Basque: “Hannover Berria”
- Bavarian: “Nei-Hannova”
- Breton: “Lavongai”
- Catalan: “Lavongai”
- Cebuano: “New Hanover”
- Chinese: “新漢諾威島”
- Dutch: “Lavongai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيو هانوڤير ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيو هانوڤير”
- Esperanto: “Nov-Hanovero”
- Estonian: “Lavongai”
- Finnish: “Lavongai”
- Finnish: “New Hanover”
- Finnish: “Uusi-Hannover”
- French: “Nouvelle-Hanovre”
- Galician: “Nova Hanover, Papúa Nova Guinea”
- Georgian: “ახალი ჰანოვერი”
- German: “Lavongai”
- German: “Neuhannover”
- Greek: “Νέο Αννόβερο”
- Greek: “Νέο Ανόβερο”
- Greek: “Νήσος Νέο Αννόβερο”
- Indonesian: “Hanover Baru”
- Italian: “Nuova Hannover”
- Japanese: “ニューハノーバー島”
- Korean: “뉴하노버섬”
- Persian: “جزیره هانوفر جدید”
- Polish: “Nowy Hanower”
- Portuguese: “Nova Hanôver”
- Russian: “Новый Ганновер”
- Serbian: “Нови Хановер”
- Silesian: “Nowy Hanower”
- Slovak: “Nový Hanover”
- Spanish: “Nueva Hanover”
- Swedish: “Lavongai”
- Swiss German: “Lavongai”
- Tosk Albanian: “Lavongai”
- Turkish: “New Hanover Adası”
- Western Mari: “У Ганновер”
- Western Panjabi: “نواں ہانوور جزیرہ”
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