Annotated bibliography of references relating to Long Island, Papua New Guinea

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This bibliography is an attempt to include all works published before 1900 which mention Long Island, as well as later studies, up to 1979, which make a significant contribution to our knowledge.Unpublished documents have proved important sources of information, and I have included those which I have seen.No doubt there are others which have been omitted.I have cited relevant newspaper articles that I knew of but there has been no systematic examination of newspapers.Citations are as given in library cataloging systems.For each entry a summary is given of information relating to Long Island.German language entries have been translated with the help of V.B. Meyer-Rochow and G. Stange.Allied Geographical Section, 1943a.Southwest Pacific Area.Terrain Study No. 59. Area Study of Madang, Volume 1. Overall geographical summary of conditions on the island covering: (a) offshore conditions; (b) anchorages and coastline; (c) villages; (d) tracks and movement; (e) lakes and swamps; (f) vegetation; (g) resources; (h) population; (i) administration; (j) meteorological information; (k) other general matters.The information, compiled from interviews and aerial photographs, is fragmentary and occasionally in error.Allied Geographical Section, 1943b.Southwest Pacific Area.Terrain Handbook No. 14.New Guinea: Saidor.Rainfall and weather data for Rai Coast and Cape Rigny.Superseded by McAlpine et al., 1975.Anderson, M. A., 1978/79.Comments on the presence of a crocodile or crocodiles in Lake Wisdom on Long Island, north of New Guinea.Science in New Guinea 6(1): 6-8.Infers that crocodiles can climb up and down steep slopes and that the species living in Lake Wisdom is 'Crocodilus [Crocodylusl porosus'.States (incorrectly) that, 'the coast of Long Island lacks suitable habitats for crocodiles'.Australia, Parliament, 1923.Report to the League of Nations on the Administration of the Territory of New Guinea from 1st july, 1921, to 30th june, 1922.Government Printer for the state of Victoria, Melbourne.#36 Long Island, in latitude 5"20'5, longitude 147"10'E, about 35 miles from the coast, is an island of low hills, with two cone-shaped craters, one of which is 2000 feet high.Its area is about 170 square miles.It has no harbours or anchorages, and is reported to be uninhabited.Crown Island is about 10 miles to the north-west of Long Island and is apparently not inhabited.Australia, Prime Minister's Department, 1937.Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea Administered by the Commonwealth of Australia.Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra: 96.Records of the Australian Museum, 1982, Volume 34 Number 11, 527-547.Long Island, in latitude 5 deg.20 min.S., longitude 147 deg., 10 min.E., about 30 miles from the coast, is an island of low hills with two cone-shaped craters, one of which, Reumur Peak, is 4278 feet high, and the other, Cerisy Peak, 3,727 feet.Its area is about 160 square miles.It has no harbours or anchorages, and is inhabited*.*A party landed on long Island in February, 1928, and after climbing the steep sides of a mountain to a height of some 1,500 feet, looked down on the waters of a lake, about 4 miles by 5, about 1,000 feet below them.The shore natives, numbering approximately 300, are immigrants from Siassi Islands: they declare that the heights are inhabited by natives whom they have never seen, but whom they blame for the disappearance of their women from time to time.The name lake Wisdom was given to the lake.It is interesting to note that in 1921 the island was reported as uninhabited.Ball, E., 1977.Life among the ashes.Australian Natural History 19(1}: 12-17.Popular account of the biological colonization of Motmot Island in Lake Wisdom, 1969-74.Ball, E. E., 1982.Long Island, Papua New Guinea -European exploration and recorded contacts to the end of the Pacific War. Rec.Aust.Mus.34(9}: 447-461.Summarizes European contact with and knowledge of Long Island up to the end of World War 11.Includes extensive quotes from original sources.

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