Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1955Vol. XXV, No. 6

Natives Removed from Volcanic Island

p. 63 · Read in the full issue

Page 6363

Volcanic Island

|T was decided in December to 1 of aC ßam n ,? tiv !L Population .oi Bam Island off the New 2ui n hP w wa in! f n !? nd - The 420 natives Wl ll no located near Madang. decSfo^ o fniiS Uinea Adm inistration’s aeciSion follows renewal recently of volcanic activity on the island and riiH W n S f C !? nsidered that the People ?hp m rfff haVe enough canoes to get them off in an emergency.

Natives of Long Island (also near Madang) were removed from their island in 1952, but returned in 1953

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