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Woodlark Island, known to its inhabitants simply as Woodlark or Muyuw, is an island in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. It is called Murua by the inhabitants of some other islands in the province. Muyuw language, one of the Kilivila-Louisiades languages and therefore part of the Austronesian language family, is spoken on the island.
Operation Chronicle was the name given to the landing of Allied forces on Woodlark Island and Kiriwina on June 30, 1943, during World War II. Within a few months of the landing U.S. Navy Seabees had constructed a major airbase at Guasopa Bay, known as Woodlark Airfield (later Guasopa Airport).
Conservation
A plan by the Malaysian company Vitroplant to use 70% of the island for palm oil production was scrapped after opposition from the islands inhabitants. The project was seen as a threat to endemic organisms on the island.[1]
References
- ^ Rheeney, Alexander (2008-01-17). "Controversial Oil Palm Project Abandoned In PNG", Pacific Magazine. Retrieved on 17 January 2008.
External links
- pacificwrecks.com "Woodlark Island"
- "Planned logging of Woodlark Island for biofuels opposed by islanders and scientists"
- "70% of rainforest island to be cleared for palm oil"
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