How many islands are the largest in the Bismarck Archipelago?
The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km.
The largest islands are New Britain and New Ireland. New Ireland is approximately 7,404 km2 (2,859 sq mi) in area. It is the largest island of New Ireland Province, lying northeast of the island of New Britain. New Britain (Tok Pisin: Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago and Papua New Guinea. It is crescent-shaped, approximately 520 km (320 mi) along its southeastern coastline, and from 29 to 146 km (18–91 miles) wide, not including a small central peninsula.
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Felicity Hewitt
Badly worded question - there can only be one “largest” !
Dane Lyons
Terrible question, very arbitrary.
Benedicte Corneliussen
Can we please have this author removed for constantly giving the crappiest Q&A's.
Pat Askew
Poorly worded question. Some sources include 4 islands:
The largest components of the archipelago, which has a total land area of about 18,600 square miles (48,200 square km), are New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, New Hanover (Lavongai), and the smaller Duke of York Group, St. Matthias Group, and Witu (Vitu) Islands.
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MRogers
At one time I regularly reviewed questions until it was decided I wasn’t doing a good enough job and was receiving no points for my efforts. At that point I ceased reviewing. Evidently those who remained were equally poor at the task and should also retire from the exercise.
Joy Holbrook
I’m still trying to figure out the question.
Rajnish Gautam
Not a good answer. Question has been put up in a confused manner.
aerographer
Poorly written
John Cameron
Maybe if the question was asked in English, it would help. Can anyone explain how big an island has to be to be "one of the largest?"
Special Patrol Group
Very poor question that looks like it was not reviewed.
Stevie G
Poorly worded question.
Denise Currie
Very confusing, Thanks to Majority Vote I got it correct
Denise Currie
Felicity Hewitt, Exactly my thoughts, I found it very confusing and used Majority Vote, which was correct.
Howard Groopman
Horribly worded question. Guessed right, though.
Rakesh Grover
The question is wrongly phrased. When you ask the largest, it can only be one. Bigger than all others.
Richard D. Boyle
Obviously NO reviewing done on the wording of this question.
Stephen Illich
The word l\”largest” means larger than ANY other. Thus, there is really only one correct answer, that being, “One.” But it wasn’t even an option.
Why did the editors let this question get through?
Roslyn Russell
The smaller islands are New Hanover and the Duke of York Islands.
LibraryLady
Makes NO SENSE AT ALL-How many islands are the largest??? Largest is the superlative of large and it suggests the ONE that is greatest in size. I'm still not sure what the author meant to ask?