Papua New Guinea
The islands that lie within the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea (PNG) can be split into several large groupings:
the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago in the northeast, the so-called Western Islands in the north, the
Trobriand, Woodlark and D'Entrecasteaux groups in the southeast located off the Papuan Peninsula, the Louisiade Archipelago
in the far southeast, the Northern Solomon Islands in the far northeast and a few remote atolls located to the north
of the Solomon Islands. In all, there are a few thousand islands, islets and reefs of which less than half are named
— only a fraction of them are presented here.