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- Autonomous Region of Bougainville
- separatist state "Republic of Meekamui"
- since 1990 de facto independent from Papua-New Guinea
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The flag of Bougainville is single-coloured blue and shows in the middle a black disk with a white green-jagged border. In the middle of the black disk a stylized depiction of a ritual hat. Blue is the colour of the ocean, green stands for the abundant vegetation, black for the people and their skin colour. The white border represents a special kind of conches which were formerly used on the island as currency. The ritual hat is pulled on by the masculine adolescents if they become incorporated into the rows of the adults.
Source: Flags of the World
Source: Freeware, University of Texas Libraries, modyfied by: Volker Preuss
Area: 3.398 square miles
Inhabitants: 249.358 (2011)
Density of Population: 72 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Buka
Languages: English, Melanesian, Polynesian
Currency: probably the currency of Papua New Guinea
Time Zone: GMT + 11 h
Source:
Wikipedia (D)
1568 · appropriation by Spain, no Colonization
1768 · re-discovery by the French seafarer Antoine de Bougainville
1884 · appropriation by the German New Guinea Company
1899 · takeover by the German Empire
1921 · administration by Australia
1942–1944 · Occupied by Japan in World War II
1975 · annexation to Papua New Guinea as North Solomons Province
since 1974 · considerable destructions of environment by the Panguna Mine
1979 · first agitations because of Panguna
1980 · street fights
1988 · civil war (Liberation Army of Bougainville, BRA, Bougainville Revolutionary Army)
1990 · independence
1990 · decommission of Panguna
1990 · blockade by Papua New Guinea demands 15 000 human lifes
1994 · armistice
1996 · once more attacks by Papua New Guinea
1997 · armistice
1998 · preliminary peace treaty with Papua New Guinea
2001 · peace treaty, Papua New Guinea grants officially autonomy as Autonomous Region of Bougainville
2005 · elections for the provincial government, boycotted by the opposition in part
December 2019 · a referendum gives 98% in favour of independence
Source: Atlas zur Geschichte,
Wikipedia (D)
Bougainville Island is named by Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811) a French seafarer. He sailed around the world (on the route of Magalhães) between 1766 and 1769 as first Frenchman. During that he discovered in 1768 again the Archipelago of the Solomon Islands. Its position was fallen into oblivion. Bougainville Island is the most northern island of the greater islands of the Archipelago of the Solomon Islands.
Source: Handbuch der geographischen Namen
