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	Manus Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manus Province is the smallest province in Papua New Guinea with a land area of 2100km², but with more than 220,000km² of water.
		The province is made up of the Admiralty Islands (a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago) and Wuvulu Island and nearby atolls in the west.
		The largest islands in the group include Manus Island where Lorengau is located.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manus (279 words)

	AMNH - Expedition : Endangered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manus Island, off northern New Guinea, is blanketed with rain forest.
		In the high canopy of the forest lives the Manus Island tree snail -- a small snail with a brilliant green shell.
		The heretofore inaccessible trees of the Manus Island rain forest are becoming increasingly attractive to loggers, who are cutting them down in significant numbers.
	www.amnh.org /nationalcenter/Endangered/snail/snail.html (130 words)

	Manus Island
		Manus is Papua New Guinea's smallest province, both in terms of land mass and population, but has a vast sea area rich in marine life and beautiful coral reefs.
		Manus, the largest of the islands, is rugged and heavily timbered with central hills rising to over 700 metres with many sharp ridges and streams.
		Manus Island has vast tracts of forests in the central range and the dancing by the locals is erotic and majestic, depicting a life of openness and joy.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/manus_island.html (331 words)

	Manus Island Radio (VZO) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manus lies two degrees south of the Equator and is the largest of the group.
		Manus Island Radio, in the small settlement of Lorengau, was built during the occupation of New Guinea by Australian forces in World War 1, primarily as a communications post to Australian military headquarters in Rabaul.
		Manus Island was attacked by the Japanese in January 1942.
	www.megalong.com /radio_history/vzo.htm (335 words)

	Horror on Manus Island, the story of Aladdin Sisalem
		The detention of individuals on Manus Island, with little or no contact with the outside world, and without access to legal counsel or due process guarantees, is clearly arbitrary and in contradiction to the guidelines of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
		Manus Island detention center is rumored to close by the end of October 2003, according to Australian officials.
		The Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island was set up towards the end of 2001 as a result of an agreement between the governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia on October 11, 2001 to accommodate and assess the claims of asylum seekers wishing to enter Australia.
	www.safecom.org.au /sisalem.htm (9233 words)

	Manus Province
		Japanese base was established in April of 1942 near the village of Rossum on Manus.
		The main wartime activity was from the American who recaptured the islands on May 18, 1944 and then used Manus as a major staging area for future operations.
		Manus Island Harbor, and explosion of USS Mt. Hood
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_manus.html (72 words)

	Manus Island in 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The base on Manus Island was visited by three Australian Catalina flying-boats on 12 January, they had their fuel tanks 'topped-up' so they could complete their bombing mission against the Japanese military base at Truk.
		The Australian force on Manus Island was now aware that Kavieng and Rabaul had been taken by the Imperial Japanese and began burning buildings and destroying anything of use to the enemy.
		The Japanese troops landed at Manus Island on 8 April 1942 and at Hermit Island, west of Manus Island on 10 April 1942.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/manus.html (2349 words)

	manus island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.
		The islands form Manus Province of Papua New Guinea.
		During World War II the islands were first occupied by the Japanese who established a small base in April 1942 near the village of Rossum on Manus Island.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Manus_Island.html (180 words)

	Australia-Pacific: Offending human dignity - the "Pacific Solution" - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On Manus Island, however, Amnesty International is not aware of such attempts to relax conditions of detention, which, according to the Australian government, would be ''more difficult'' to arrange.
		Amnesty International is concerned that the lack of transparency of the refugee status determination procedures in Nauru and Manus Island, plus the lack of access to independent legal counsel, heightens concern that the implementation of the refugee status determination process may not be fair.
		Manus Island is the main island in Manus Province, northern Papua New Guinea.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGASA120092002 (11354 words)

	Manus Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The province consists of a group of islands, known as the Admiralty Islands and a scattering of low lying atolls, mostly uninhabited, with the northern border reaching the equator.
		The islands are connected by a bridge crossing the Loniu Passage.
		During World War 2, Manus was occupied by the Japanese and later by American and Australian armed forces, who spent millions of dollars constructing a huge base, airport and dock facilities at Seeadler Harbour.
	www.pngbd.com /travel/tourism_guide_tpa/prov_manus.html (345 words)

	Manus Past - through the eyes of prehistory / archaeologists. Manus Province, Papua New Guinea PNGBUAI.com
		Mouk Island is approximately 30 kilometres from the mainland of Manus.
		But it poses two posibilities, one is that those who brought the sherds to the island were champion sailors and secondly that the inhabitants of the island were themselves long distance sailors who brought the sherds from faraway places.
		In Tok Pisin the modern Manus refer to obsidian as "spia botol" because that used to be the most common use for the obsidian in the past.
	www.pngbuai.com /provinces/manus/manusarchaeology.html (8793 words)

	Manus - To the Field and Back - Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture (Library of Congress Exhibition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They traveled together to Pere, a small village on the island of Manus, in what was then the Admiralty Islands and is now part of Papua New Guinea.
		In a culture such as Manus, where the supernatural permeates everyday life, Mead found that children showed no particular interest in the supernatural in their drawings.
		Mead was treated by a Manus bonesetter, and villagers built crutches for her use, fashioned from canoe poles and wooden pillows.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/mead/field-manus.html (2006 words)

	Last man on Manus Island granted visa : Melbourne Indymedia
		Having reached Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, he was taken to Thursday Island, and then flown to Manus, where Australia's Pacific Solution was in full swing.
		But when all the other residents of Manus were resettled or repatriated in the middle of last year, Aladdin Sisalem found himself left behind.
		The International Organisation for Migration, which runs Manus on behalf of Australia, is in the PNG Capital this week, preparing to open a local office.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/05/70955_comment.php (1304 words)

	Australian government refuses to transfer refugees from malaria-ridden camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Statistics from Manus Island indicate that a high proportion of the local population is infected with the disease.
		When the asylum seekers arrived on the island, the medical centre, which is up the hill from the detention camp, had smashed windows and the insect gauze had rotted away.
		The Manus Island Deputy Premier said it could be “two years or three years or more [if] there are problems for Australia in finding places for these people to go”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/feb2002/refu-f27_prn.shtml (1573 words)

	CNN.com - Court challenge to PNG refugee camp - April 18, 2002
		The Afghani and Iraqi asylum seekers were shipped to Manus Island in September last year by the Australian navy as part of a deal between Canberra and Port Moresby to process refugee protection visa claims outside Australian borders.
		Another 1,200 asylum seekers were shipped to the tiny island nation of Nauru as part of Australia's so-called "Pacific solution" aimed at discouraging the flow of boat-people to Australian shores.
		Howard also refuted allegations that up a third of the asylum seekers on Manus had contracted malaria, saying the incidence of the illness was far lower than that.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/04/18/png.asylum (573 words)

	Manus Island, Papua New Guinea - Manus Province - social-cultural-economic facets of Manusians and the land
		Manus Island, Papua New Guinea - Manus Province - social-cultural-economic facets of Manusians and the land
		Manus Island - Papua New Guinea - Manus Province
		This week is a sad one for Manus Province and all Manusians as we mourn the passing away of great Manus character.
	www.manusisland.com (499 words)

	Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority - Manus Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The airport is located at Los Negros Island, which is joined to Manus by a bridge across the narrow Loniu Passage.
		Culture: The Manus Provincial Show is held over three days in late August or you might be able to watch traditional dancing at Buyang, a village at the centre of the island.
		Island hopping: Visit and stay on some of the outer islands such as Andra and Ahus off the North Coast or Lou Island to the south-east.
	www.pngtourism.org.pg /png/export/sites/TPA/provinces/manus/manus.htm (707 words)

	Manus Island
		A relatively small Japanese base was established in April of 1942, and had minimal contact with the people of Manus, but did hire some of the Rossum villagers as guides and scouts.
		The locals were told by the Japanese that "the war was a fight amongst outside nations and the local people were best advised to stay in the safely of the hinterland." German colonist who remained on the island when then Japanese arrived were either killed or imprisoned.
		The locals were told by the Japanese: "The war was a fight amongst outside nations and the local people were best advised to stay in the safely of the hinterland." German colonist who remained on the island when the Japanese arrived were either killed or imprisoned.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_manus_island.html (504 words)

	The World Today Archive - Lone detainee now free to roam Manus Island
		Aladdin Sisalem, the Palestinian man who's been the only resident of the Manus Island Detention Centre in Papua New Guinea for more than six months, has been now told officially that he can go and do what he pleases on the Island, as long as he doesn't actually leave.
		One local newspaper report suggests that won't be much of a change, quoting Manus residents saying Mr Sisalem has been mingling with locals and frequenting parties and the local hotel.
		But the agreement for the continued operation of Manus expires in October this year and already PNG is indicating it doesn't want to renew the lease.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1049831.htm (845 words)

	Manus Island, The Western Isles and Wuvulu scuba diving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manus Island, The Western Isles and Wuvulu scuba diving
		No dives are available in the Manus Island, The Western Isles and Wuvulu local waters.
		The island`s southeast side steep walls and clear water make fine diving when the sea is calm.
	www.sportextreme.com /phdilo9010 (107 words)

	News Archives
		The opposition immigration spokesman, Stephen Smith, called on the prime minister, John Howard, to shut the Manus and Nauru camps, along with another camp at Port Hedland in the far north of Western Australia.
		The government should close Nauru and Manus Island now." The Pacific solution has cost Australia more than pounds 210m since it was launched in the run-up to the 2001 federal elections.
		The amount of money spent keeping Manus Island open would pay unemployment benefits for all the detainees in Manus, Nauru and Port Hedland, if they were allowed into Australia.
	www.usaforunhcr.org /archives.cfm?ID=1098&cat=Archives (635 words)

	Aladdin Sisalem released from Manus Island - Immigration - www.theage.com.au
		The last resident of the Manus Island detention centre arrived in Melbourne last night to start a new life.
		He was sent to Manus Island, where for the past 10 months he was the sole occupant, apart from a small staff of guards and cleaners hired to look after him at a cost to the Australian Government of $250,000 a month.
		He told The Age, the first major newspaper to report his lonely island vigil, that being in the company of people again was "something like being from the bottom of the ocean to the high place in the sky".
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/31/1085855499159.html (666 words)

	Manus, Admiralty Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manus was the first big 'leapfrog' landing in the Pacific war.
		The original target for the Manus landing was to have been Rabaul in New Britain.
		Rabaul was the major Japanese base in the area and was the staging ground for their Solomon Islands invasions.
	web.nmsu.edu /~pauberve/Manus.htm (123 words)

	Manus Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manus is one of the least visited of PNG's offshore islands and has the smallest population....around 33000 residents.
		The Manus Province is actually made up of over 200 small islands.
		The main island of Manus which is almost entirely igneous in origin and covered in soils of various types and fertilities.
	www.thebittners.com /www/PNG/Islands/Manus/Manus.htm (102 words)

	PM - Vanstone grilled over Manus Island detention centre's only detainee
		The 25-year-old Palestinian man who's been the sole occupant of the Manus Island facility for six months has been declared to be a refugee.
		AMANDA VANSTONE: So we keep Manus, not because there's one person there, whomever's responsibility he is, we keep a shared interest with the Papua New Guinean Government in Manus because we want to have off shore processing centres available so that we can continue to deter the people smugglers.
		The capacity at Manus Island when it was originally commissioned was for a thousand detainees, you don't need what's at Manus Island to look after one asylum seeker.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1043033.htm (775 words)

	SSHL: Melanesian Studies Resource Center & Melanesian Archive: Papua New Guinea Patrol Reports: Manus Province
		This is a guide to the microfiche of government patrol reports for Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.
		The microfiche for Manus Provinve reproduce 33 files of typescript sources, comprising 260 patrol reports.
		Microfiche location: Manus : Manus : 028 : 034 - 028 : 050.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /melanesia/manus.htm (1764 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Bougainville, Bismarck Islands, Manus Island
		Buka Island 19-21 Jan. Mainly the road to the island’s interior.
		A boat trip was made to Anusagaro Island offshore and an islet nearby.
		Manus Island 29 Jan - 3 Feb. One late afternoon, two early mornings around Rossun village, just out of Lorengau, and the waterfall nearby.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/papua-new-guinea/bismarck/islands-jan02.htm (693 words)

	Manus Island captive would prefer Nauru. 29/02/2004. ABC News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The last man left inside Australia's offshore immigration centre on Manus Island says he would rather be taken to a similar facility on Nauru, rather than remain alone in Papua New Guinea.
		Since the middle of last year Aladdin Sisalem has been only resident of the Manus Island centre, after the remaining asylum seekers were moved out.
		PNG recently gave him freedom of movement on Manus Island, but Mr Sisalem believes that is an attempt to further distance him from his claims on Australia.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1055834.htm (247 words)

	Last Manus Island asylum seeker looks forward to new life - Immigration - www.smh.com.au
		The last man left in the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea arrived in Melbourne last night and walked off the plane into a new life.
		Eighteen months after he first reached the Torres Strait islands by boat from Papua New Guinea and asked for asylum, it was finally granted last Friday.
		But he said he has not yet had time to digest his feelings on walking out the gate of the Manus Island detention centre.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/31/1085855502771.html (438 words)

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