Buka Island
Buka Island is the second-largest island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It is in Buka Rural LLG of North Bougainville District, with the Autonomous Region's and district's capital city of Buka on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Bouka”, “Lord Anson’s Island”, and “Winchelsea’s Island”
Buka Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Buka Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Buka Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة بوكا”
- Asturian: “Buka”
- Asturian: “islla Buka”
- Basque: “Buka”
- Belarusian: “Бука”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Бука”
- Cebuano: “Buka Island”
- Central Bikol: “Buka (isla)”
- Central Bikol: “Buka”
- Chinese: “布卡岛”
- Chinese: “布卡島”
- Chinese: “布喀島”
- Czech: “Buka”
- Dutch: “Buka”
- Esperanto: “Buka”
- Estonian: “Buka saar”
- Estonian: “Buka”
- French: “Buka”
- French: “Ile Buka”
- French: “Île Buka”
- Galician: “Illa de Buka”
- Georgian: “ბუკა”
- German: “Buka”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Buka”
- Italian: “Buka”
- Japanese: “ブカ島”
- Korean: “부카섬”
- Lithuanian: “Buka”
- Mingrelian: “ბუკა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buka”
- Norwegian: “Buka”
- Persian: “جزیره بوکا”
- Polish: “Buka”
- Portuguese: “Buca”
- Portuguese: “Buka”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Buka”
- Russian: “Бука”
- Spanish: “Buka”
- Swedish: “Buka”
- Turkish: “Buka Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Бука”
- Welsh: “Ynys Buka”
- Western Mari: “Бука ошмаоты”
- Western Panjabi: “بوکا جزیرہ”
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