Vulcan Island
Manam, known locally as Manam Motu, is an island located in the Bismarck Sea across the Stephan Strait from Yawar on the northeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea's Bogia District.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Manam”, “Manam Motu”, “Manumudar”, “Volcano”, “Vulkan”, “마남 화산”, “마남모투”, “마남모투 화산”, “마남산”, “マナム山”, and “マナム島”
Vulcan Island
- Categories: mountain, volcanic island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-4.07756° or 4° 4′ 39″ south
Longitude
145.03528° or 145° 2′ 7″ east
Population
10,700
Elevation
1,729 metres (5,673 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PG MAM
Open location code
6R77W2CP+X4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Panjabi—“Vulcan Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Manam Island”
- Cebuano: “Manam Island”
- Chinese: “馬納姆島”
- Dutch: “Manam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مانام”
- French: “Manam”
- German: “Manam”
- Greek: “Μανάμ”
- Indonesian: “Manam Motu”
- Italian: “Manam”
- Japanese: “マナム火山”
- Korean: “마남모투섬”
- Ladin: “Manam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Manam”
- Panjabi: “ਮਨਮ ਮੋਟੂ”
- Polish: “Manam”
- Portuguese: “Manam”
- Russian: “Манам”
- Slovak: “Manam”
- Venetian: “Manam”
- Western Panjabi: “مانام”
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