Bougainville Island
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Bougainville Island is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Its land area is 9,300 km2. The highest point is Mount Balbi, on the main island, at
United States Marines on Bougainville (November 1943)
Bagana volcano
Northern part of the island
Buka Passage (1944)
Bougainville conflict
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The Bougainville conflict, also known as the Bougainvillean Civil War, the Solomon Civil War or the Civil War of the North Solomons was a multi-layered armed conflict fought from 1988 to 1998 in the N
Bougainville Island
…Bougainville declared itself the Republic of the North Solomons. Though it was later absorbed politically into Papua New Guinea. Between 1988 and 1998, the Bougainville Civil War claimed over 15,000 lives. Peace talks brokered by New Zealand began in 1997 and led to autonomy. A multinational Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) under…
Ambulances in Arawa, 1998, destroyed in conflict.