#LONG WORML NEW GUINEA SERIES#
The island is part of the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, a series of Quaternary volcanic centres running from the Schouten Islands in the west to Rabaul on New Britain in the east. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a.
However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. Long Island, known as Pono to its inhabitants and as Arop or Ahrup to people on the New Guinea mainland, lies about 130 km east of Madang and 65 km north-east from Saidor in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea (Fig. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. This paper provides a general introduction to these studies which are more fully described in the following papers. Between 19 the authors were engaged on research into various aspects of the island's eruptive and human history. In addition, creation in 1968 of a volcanic island in the large freshwater lake filling the central caldera of the island has allowed observation of a colonization process essentially from the start. The human population of the island is still small enough to make possible significant studies of the relation between the expanding human population and the environment. Most life on the island was apparently destroyed in a catastrophic eruption during the 17th or early 18th century, and the island has subsequently been recolonized by plants, animals and humans. Long Island, in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea, forms part of the Bismarck Volcanic Arc.
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