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	Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Solomon Islands group.
		Bougainville, the adjacent island of Buka, and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets are sometimes known as North Solomons.
		The island is ecologically and geographically, although not politically, part of the Solomon Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bougainville (574 words)

	Louis Antoine de Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bougainville was born in Paris, France, the son of a notary.
		Bougainville obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1792, having escaped almost miraculously from the massacres of Paris, he retired to his estate in Normandy.
		Bougainville's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Bougainville (1309 words)

	Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne Eisen on Bougainville on National Review Online
		Tucked away in the South Pacific, Bougainville is an island near Papua New Guinea (PNG), with a population of approximately 200,000.
		In April 1990, the PNG government, with the assistance of the Australian government, imposed a total blockade of the island in an attempt to reopen the mine, and to prevent Ona and the BRA from acquiring arms.
		One of the witnesses to the signing of the Bougainville Peace Agreement was New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff, whose country agreed to provide 200 containers (basically, large trunks) for the storage of weapons to be handed in by Bougainvillean ex-combatants.
	www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel020602.shtml (2391 words)

	Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bougainville took possession of the island for the French nation, erecting a sign on a tree near the beach and burying a bottle with a message asserting the action.
		Bougainville (who was reluctant himself to promote the Noble Savage theory) and others wrote descriptions of the climate, the vegetation, the ready supply of good food, the lack of a need to do much work, all of which combined to convey the sense that Tahiti was a Utopia.
		Bougainville speculated that it was Carteret in the Swallow.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /books_and_maps/bougainville.asp (9377 words)

	MRF > Development > Indigenous People > Bougainville Island
		Following the signing of the Bougainville Peace Accord in January 2001, negotiations between the parties have been focussing on the details and implementation of its articles.
		Bougainville Transition Team (BTT) - The BTT was a small, unarmed team of civilians from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Vanuatu deployed for a six month period in the second half of 2003 on the withdrawl of the PMG.
		Bougainville declares its independence from PNG for the second time and the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) is established.
	www.natural-resources.org /minerals/development/indigp/Bougainville.htm (1474 words)

	UNIFEM - Bougainville - Gender Country Profile - Women, War, Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The island of Bougainville/Papua New Guinea is situated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
		Bougainville was devastated by the violent civil war between local groups and the Papua New Guinea government that took place between 1989 and 1998.
		The history of the conflict is rooted in colonial history: Bougainville was added to Papua New Guinea by the Germans, despite is geographical and cultural proximity to the Solomon Islands.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /bougainville/bougainville.htm (7331 words)

	Bougainville Island? - www.ezboard.com
		Bougainville Island in the South Pacific has an extensive history with Australia due to intensive mining operations conducted by PNG and Rio Tinto.
		During an uprising by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), power pylons which carried electricity from the coast to the interior (where the mining project was) were blown up with explosives.
		The island also has a WWII history as it was invaded by the Japanese in 1942.
	p073.ezboard.com /flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm39.showMessage?topicID=421.topic (327 words)

	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville biography
		Bougainville's mathematical ability continued to increase and in 1751 he became a pupil of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, the mathematician and one of the principal authors of the Encyclopedie.
		Bougainville had his first experience of warfare, as a member of an assault party that skirted the forts, fording the river and attacking from the south.
		Bougainville was rightly pleased with the expedition having landed the first settlement on the islands and had returned with a healthy ship to France.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~boug2.html (21119 words)

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		Both operations served their primary purpose of drawing Japanese troops away from Bougainville, but the positions gained in the Treasuries, including valuable Blanche Harbor, were held and strengthened to provide staging for the landings on Bougainville.
		Thus, no Japanese forces were withdrawn from either end of the island to root out the American invasion, and the Americans had the opportunity to solidify their positions.
		Campaign Results The Bougainville campaign remains one of the most resounding successes of the war in the Pacific in terms of the smooth coordination between the Navy and Marine Corps.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/wwii/facts/bougbttl.txt (1597 words)

	Bougainville Copper Project
		If you are interested and have old Bougainville friends but haven’t kept in contact, I would seriously encourage you to find them before you travel since a reunion would really make the trip even more worthwhile (I can give you a tip on how to find them if you need help).
		However, we are compiling a DVD of all our Bougainville pictures which we hope to publish in about six months' time but we need to gauge the interest for it first.
		The Bougainville Copper Project was not only the largest grass roots copper project undertaking in the world to that date - it was truly a monument to every man who turned his hand toward its successful completion.
	www.riverbendnelligen.com /bougainville1.html (1229 words)

	Bougainville
		After New Georgia, the next major operation was an invasion of the island of Bougainville, which was approached by landings at Mono and Stirling in the Treasury Islands on October 25-27, 1943.
		A Marine division landed on the west coast of Bougainville at Empress Augusta Bay on November 1, 1943.
		Allied planes neutralized enemy airfields in the northern part of the island, and the Allied command made use of its naval and air superiority to contain the Japanese garrison on Bougainville and cut its supply line to Rabaul by occupying the Green Islands (February 14, 1944).
	www.worldwar2history.info /Bougainville (279 words)

	Bagana, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bougainville is an island northwest of the Solomon Islands and east of New Britain and Papua New Guinea.
		Bagana is one of seven volcanoes on Bougainville that have been active in the last 10,000 years.
		Bagana, classified as a lava cone, is made of thick steep-sided blocky lava flows.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/current_volcs/bagana/bagana.html (339 words)

	Bougainville Province
		Japanese occupation began in mid 1942, when they defeated the Australians and held the island for most of the war.
		Buka was an important air base, Shortland Island was a major Naval base and Buin on the Southern tip of Bougainville was a important troop base.
		Nearest village to the wreck of Admiral Yamamoto's Betty
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/bougainville.html (177 words)

	Bougainville Island - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		I am interested in anyone who has worked or lived on the Island of Bougainville, PNG.
		Hello all,, just found this website,, am an x employee of Bechtel, was paymaster in Panguna in '69/70 and am amazed at how the years have flown yet still have many happy memories of my time on the island.
		I got a heap of photo's of Bougainville from the early days till then final couple of years.
	www.quicktopic.com /28/H/Y7pUWGceTU2 (758 words)

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