Woodlark Island

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Woodlark Island is a remote island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province, notable for its role as a World War II military staging area and its rich tropical biodiversity.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Woodlark Island canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical feature ⓘ
island ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Murua ⓘ
Muyua ⓘ
continent Australia ⓘ
country Papua New Guinea ⓘ
countryCapital none ⓘ
governedBy Milne Bay Provincial Government ⓘ
linked to: Milne Bay Province
hasAirport Guasopa Airport ⓘ
hasBiodiversityStatus high endemism potential ⓘ
hasCharacteristic remote location ⓘ
rich tropical biodiversity ⓘ
hasClimate tropical ⓘ
hasConservationConcern threats from logging ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity fishing ⓘ
small-scale forestry ⓘ
subsistence agriculture ⓘ
hasEcosystem tropical coastal ecosystem ⓘ
tropical rainforest ⓘ
hasHistoricalPeriod World War II ⓘ
hasIndigenousPeople Woodlark Islanders ⓘ
hasLandingDate 1943-06-30 ⓘ
hasLanguage Woodlark Island language ⓘ
hasMilitaryHistoryEvent Operation Chronicle ⓘ
hasMilitaryInstallation airfield constructed by Allied forces during World War II ⓘ
hasNaturalResource tropical timber ⓘ
hasNearbyIslandGroup Louisiade Archipelago ⓘ
Trobriand Islands ⓘ
hasRunwaySurface unsealed (Guasopa Airport) ⓘ
hasSettlement Guasopa ⓘ
locatedEastOf New Guinea ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Milne Bay Province ⓘ
locatedInArchipelago Woodlark Islands ⓘ
locatedInBodyOfWater Solomon Sea ⓘ
locatedInOcean Pacific Ocean ⓘ
locatedInRegion Melanesia ⓘ
Oceania ⓘ
locatedNorthOf Milne Bay ⓘ
partOf Papua New Guinea Islands Region ⓘ
Woodlark Islands ⓘ
sovereignState Papua New Guinea ⓘ
timeZone UTC+10 ⓘ
usedAs World War II military staging area ⓘ
usedByMilitaryForce Allied forces ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Operation Chronicle → location → Woodlark Island ⓘ
Milne Bay Province → contains → Woodlark Island ⓘ
southeastern Papua New Guinea → hasPart → Woodlark Island ⓘ