Urara Island is a small inhabited island in the northern part of Ataliklikun Bay (Bismarck Sea) in Papua New Guinea, located just off the mainland of the northern coast of New Britain. There are 3 villages, the largest lying on the southern central part of the coastline. Urara Island lies about 3 miles westward of Cape Liguan, and stands on a reef which extends a short distance only eastward of it and 1.5 miles to the westward.[1] Materbert Island lies about 6 miles west of the island and Watom Island lies to the north-east.[2]

References

  1. ↑ United States. Hydrographic Office (1916). Pacific islands pilot. Govt. Print. Off. p. 469. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  2. ↑ Shaw, Norton; Galton, Sir Francis (1881). Proceedings ... Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). pp. 92–3. Retrieved 1 November 2011.

4°10′59″S 151°56′26″E / 4.18306°S 151.94056°E / -4.18306; 151.94056


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