Tanga Islands

Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea
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The Tanga islands are the smallest group of islands that lie on the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni Island chain of islands; they are located midway along the chain, lying 55 km off the central New Ireland coast (visible at bottom-left corner of the image. The islands are the only emergent parts of a collapsed stratovolcano, which now forms the islands of Malendok, Lif, Tefa, and Boang, and the two islets of Bitlik and Bitbok.