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Dumoulin Islands (Louisiade)

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Location
  
Oceania

Total islands
  
6

Highest point
  
Mount Baiiri

Area
  
66 ha

Adjacent body of water
  
Solomon Sea

Adjacent bodies of water
  
Solomon Sea

Highest elevation
  
110 m (360 ft)

Elevation
  
110 m

Archipelago
  
Louisiade Archipelago

Dumoulin Islands (Louisiade)

Major islands
  
Ana Karu Karua Island Baiiri Island

The Dumoulin Islands are an uninhabited group of islands in Louisiade Archipelago.

Map of Dumoulin Islands, Papua New Guinea

The Dumoulin Islands belong to the western foothills of Louisiade archipelago. They lie 25 km south of Sideia Island and 40 km east of Brumer Islands. The archipelago consists of four big islands and two small islands.

The four islands rise from an undersea shelf of about 6 km in length up to 110 m above sea level. The islands measuring just a few hundred meters in diameter. They are hilly, wooded with steep slopes and cliffs and dense. Baiiri, the largest island, is located at the western end of the group, the second largest island Ana Karu Karua at the eastern end.

In the north of the Dumoulin Islands is a large area of shoals and reefs (Siriki Shoals), the south is a long undersea barrier reef . The people of Wari have copra plantations on Baiiri.

References

Dumoulin Islands (Louisiade) Wikipedia