Bismarck Archipelago

American  

noun

1. a group of islands in Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean, including the Admiralty Islands, New Britain, New Ireland, and adjacent islands. About 23,000 sq. mi. (59,570 sq. km).

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Bismarck Archipelago British  

noun

1. a group of over 200 islands in the SW Pacific, northeast of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Main islands: New Britain, New Ireland, Lavongai, and the Admiralty Islands. Chief town: Rabaul, on New Britain. Pop: 566 610 (2000). Area: 49 658 sq km (19 173 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Alternatively, it could be explained by more recent seafaring expansions by people from the Bismarck Archipelago.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2018

Collectively known as the Lapita culture, this set of artifacts first appeared more than 3000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago in New Oceania.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 3, 2016

These inhabit New Guinea, the Aru Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and various of the small surrounding islands.

From Scientific American • Jan. 17, 2014

Based on this, they determined that Polynesians arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea at least 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, via Indonesia, and presumably left the mainland about 10,000 years ago.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2011

Around 1200 B.C. a group of farming, fishing, seafaring people from the Bismarck Archipelago north of New Guinea finally succeeded in reaching some of those islands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond