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Island group
  
Trobriand Islands

Kaileuna

Kaileuna is an island in the Trobriand Islands group of Papua New Guinea. With an area of 45.53 km², it is the second-largest island in the group, after Kiriwina.

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Map of Kaileuna Island, Papua New Guinea

As of the census of population of 2000, there were 1,908 people living on the island, in five villages:

  • Kaduwaga (645)
  • Kaisiga (409)
  • Tawema (352)
  • Koma (282)
  • Giva (220)
  • A sixth village, Lebola, was uninhabited. Older maps still show a seventh village, Bulakwa, in the very south. The largest village, Kaduwaga, is on the north-west coast of the island.

    Literature

  • Gunter Senft: Landscape terms and place names in the Trobriand Islands – the Kaile’una subset. In: Language Sciences 30 (2008) 340–361 (online)
  • References

    Kaileuna Wikipedia