Normanby Island
- Landsat 7
- Path 93 Row 67
- 02 September 2000
Normanby Island is the most southerly of the main islands that comprise the D'Entrecasteaux group, being situated 3 km south of Fergusson Island from which it is separated by the Dobu Passage, and 16 km northeast of East Cape — the easternmost point on the PNG mainland — across the Goschen Passage.
Normanby Island has an irregular and elongated shape, measuring 73 km in length (northwest to southeast), is 28 km to 4 km in width and covers an area of 1,040 km². The island has a range of terrain types that includes low coastal plains and swamplands, high mountains (reaching 1,158 m) and steep coastal slopes. The eastern end of the island is characterised by north to south trending ridges and valleys that deeply dissect the landscape — these are quite pronounced in the above image.
