Skip to content
Archipelago

    Los Negros Island

    2°01′S 147°25′E

    Los Negros Island is the third largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is significant because it contains the main airport of Manus Province on its eastern coastline, at Momote.

    Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
    Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.

    Signal Corps Archive from United States / Public domain

    Terrain

    2°01′S 147°25′E

    Terrain exaggerated for relief. Drag to look around.

    Overview

    Los Negros Island is the third largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is significant because it contains the main airport of Manus Province on its eastern coastline, at Momote. It is connected to Lorengau, the capital of the province, on Manus Island, via a highway and bridge across the Lonui Passage, which separates Los Negros from the larger Manus Island. It forms part of the Los Negros Rural LLG. The Manus Regional Processing Centre, an Australian immigration detention facility for illegal immigrants and people apprehended on boats while trying to reach Australia, was located on Los Negros Island. It was part, together with Nauru, of Australia's "Pacific Solution" policy, and it housed asylum seekers while their claims for refugee protection were processed. The centre was initially opened in 2001. It closed in 2008 but was reopened in 2012. The detention centre was eventually closed in November 2017 following a ruling by the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that found detention there to be illegal.

    From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Chart

    Nearest islands

    Also in Admiralty Islands

    Also in Bismarck Archipelago

    Also in Papua New Guinea

    Also in Melanesia

    Also in Solomon Islands

    Sources

    Facts

    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
    • Talus
    • Wikidata
    • Wikipedia