Geography
The islands are volcanic ocean peaks, much as they are reef-ringed, not atolls, and are thereby highly fertile. Garove (Vitu, or Big Witu) and Unea (Bali) are the largest islands. The group was the chief copra center of Papua New Guinea, although cocoa is now the main crop harvested due to the depressed prices available for copra.
The islands are situated west of north of Talasea peninsula, Nth Coast New Britain, with Unea some 40 nautical miles (74 km) E of south of the main group, and the remaining other islands Mundua (Ningau), situated eleven kilometers (7 mi.) northwest of Garove, and Naragé some twenty-four km (15 mi.) northwest of Mundua, the final extension of the sub-aqueous peaks chain being the Ottilian Reef (Attilian Reef) a further twenty-two km northwest of Naragé, this last all but totally submerged at all tide states, and dangerous to shipping. Sometimes the submerged Whirlwind Reef a further fifty-eight km to the southwest of the Ottilian Reef is included in the island arc.
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