• Goaribari is an island in southern Papua New Guinea. It is located in Gulf Province within the Gulf of Papua. During high tides, parts of the island are...
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    Goaribari Island Urama Island (No. 20 on map) Daugo Island Manubada Island Haidana Island • Loloata Islands (No. 10 on the map) South Coast Islands Bona...
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    life of an armchair cultural anthropologist, writing articles about Goaribari Island and its cannibals. To all the girls out there with impractical dreams...
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    Guinea. A missionary found 10,000 skulls in a community longhouse on Goaribari Island in 1901. Historically, the Marind-anim in New Guinea were famed because...
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  • Chalmers and Oliver Fellows Tomkins were murdered and cannibalized on Goaribari Island, Papua New Guinea, on 8 April 1901. During the course of the Bailundo...
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    Papua New Guinea (category Island countries)
    spirits or powers. In 1901, on Goaribari Island in the Gulf of Papua, missionary Harry Dauncey found 10,000 skulls in the island's long houses, a demonstration...
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    The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre (174-square-mile) archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the...
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    James Chalmers (missionary) (category Protestant missionaries in the Cook Islands)
    Tomkins's memory). A year later, he was on a vessel with Tomkins near Goaribari Island, and was visited by natives who appeared to be in a dangerous mood...
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  • the Navigation Bill (1904–1906) Royal Commission on the affray at Goaribari Island, British New Guinea, on 6 March 1904 (1904) Royal Commission on customs...
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  • Dauncey found approximately 10,000 skulls in dobu (men's houses) on Goaribari Island. He retired in 1928, and died on 16 January 1932 at Bournemouth. "Rev...
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    Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth-largest island in Papua...
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    Oliver Fellows Tomkins, 28, both Scottish missionaries, went ashore on Goaribari Island in New Guinea with eleven Papuan assistants. After arriving, they were...
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    Fergusson Island is the largest island of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, in Papua New Guinea. It has an area of 1,437 square kilometres (555 sq mi), and...
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    Vanatinai Island (also called Tagula and Sudest, for the names of the extreme capes of the island) is a volcanic island in the southeast of the Louisiade...
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    Goodenough Island in the Solomon Sea, also known as Nidula Island, is the westernmost of the three large islands of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne...
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    Timothy." Accompanied by Tomkins, Chalmers arrived at the Aird River of Goaribari Island on board the Niue on 7 April 1901. The last entry in Tomkins' diary...
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    Island (named after de Rossel, a senior officer on the French expedition of d'Entrecasteaux, 1791-1793; also known as Yela) is the easternmost island...
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  • industry (1904–1905) on the Navigation Bill (1904–1906) on the affray at Goaribari Island, British New Guinea, on the 6th of March, 1904 (1904) on customs and...
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    Didigilo Island Dinana Island Doini Island Ebuma Island Gado-Gadoa Island Galahi Island Gesila Island Gonabarabara Island Grant Island Igwali Island Ito Island...
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    industry (1904–1905) on the Navigation Bill (1904–1906) on the affray at Goaribari Island, British New Guinea, on the 6th of March, 1904 (1904) on customs and...
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    Woodlark Island, known to its inhabitants simply as Woodlark or Muyua, is the main island of the Woodlark Islands archipelago, located in Milne Bay Province...
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    industry (1904–1905) on the Navigation Bill (1904–1906) on the affray at Goaribari Island, British New Guinea, on the 6th of March, 1904 (1904) on customs and...
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    Wanim Island is an island in the Louisiade Archipelago in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The island has an area of 3.56 km2, it is part of the Pana...
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    Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Its land area...
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  • Robinson, committed suicide after a royal commission into events on Goaribari Island, many Europeans felt that Abel had driven Robinson to his death with...
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    Lolobau Island is an island in the Bismarck Sea, within the West New Britain Province of the Islands Region, in northern Papua New Guinea. During World...
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    D'Entrecasteaux Islands /ˌdɒntrəˈkæstoʊ/ (French: [dɑ̃tʁəkasto]) are situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea in Milne Bay Province...
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    industry (1904–1905) on the Navigation Bill (1904–1906) on the affray at Goaribari Island, British New Guinea, on the 6th of March, 1904 (1904) on customs and...
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    Lou Island is an island of the Admiralty Islands, part of the Bismarck Archipelago, located in northern Papua New Guinea. Lou Island has four main villages:...
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    Green Islands. Nissan Island — the largest island of the group Pinipel Island Barahun Island Sirot Island Sau Island Battle of the Green Islands Archipelagoes...
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