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BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BISMARCK
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ARCHIPELAGO
  , the collective name of a large number of islands lying N. and N.E. of New
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Guinea, between 1° and 7° S., and 146° and 153° E., belonging to Germany . The largest island is New Pomerania, and the
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archipelago also includes New
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Mecklenburg, New Hanover, with small attendant islands, the Admiralty Islands and a chain of islands off the9 coast of New Guinea, the whole
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system lying in the form of a
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great amphitheatre of oval shape . The archipelago was named in honour of the first chancellor of the German
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empire, after a German
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protectorate had been declared in 1884 .

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