Gerrit Denys Island
Lihir Island is the largest island in the Lihir group of islands, 22 km long and 14.5 km wide, in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland Province. It consists of a complex of several overlapping basaltic stratovolcanoes rising 700 m above sea level.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Gardeney”, “Gardenijs”, “Gerrit de Nijs”, “Ile du Bouchage”, “Lihir Island”, and “Lir Island”
Gerrit Denys Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-3.08333° or 3° 5′ southLongitude
152.58333° or 152° 35′ eastPopulation
18,000Elevation
417 metres (1,368 feet)United Nations Location Code
PG LNVOpen location code
6R8JWH8M+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 305002969OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gerrit Denys Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ليهير”
- Catalan: “Lihir”
- Cebuano: “Lihir Island”
- Chinese: “利希爾島”
- Czech: “Aniolam”
- Czech: “Niolam”
- Dutch: “Lihir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليهير ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليهير”
- French: “Lihir”
- German: “Niolam”
- German: “Lir Insel” (historical)
- Indonesian: “Pulau Lihir”
- Italian: “Lihir”
- Japanese: “リヒール島”
- Persian: “جزیره لیهیر”
- Polish: “wyspa Lihir”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Lihir”
- Portuguese: “Lihir”
- Portuguese: “Niolam”
- Russian: “Лихир”
- Spanish: “Lihir”
- Ukrainian: “Ліхір”
- Western Mari: “Лихир ошмаоты”
- Western Panjabi: “لیہیر جزیرہ”
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