Lavongai

English

Proper noun

Lavongai

  1. Synonym of New Hanover
    • 1966 August 21, “Lansford Priest to Serve New Guinea Parish, Schools”, in Reading Eagle‎[1], page 33:
      The Rev. Bernard F. Jakuco, M.S.C., a missionary priest from Lansford, has recently been transferred to the north coast of Lavongai (formerly New Hanover) in the Territory of New Guinea.
    • 2024, Mark Collins, ‘Seducing the fish?’ Marine interspecies relations on Lavongai Island (Papua New Guinea)‎[2], page 7:
      In the late 19th and early 20th century, a few anthropologists visited Lavongai but left only very little documentation.
  2. Synonym of Tungag
  3. A village in New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago
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