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Definition of New ireland
1. Noun. An island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea.
Definition of New ireland
1. Proper noun. An island of the Bismarck Archipelago, a German colony from 1884 to 1921; governed by Australia from 1921 and then by Papua New Guinea from 1975 to the present day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of New Ireland
Literary usage of New ireland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"The usual horse sickness peculiar to the country is also very bad here. Journey along
the Coasts of new ireland and Neighbouring Islands. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"new ireland is formed mainly by a mountain chain which stretches from north-west
to south-east, presenting an abrupt slope towards New Britain, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"new ireland presents many distinct features from New Britain. In new ireland
there is presumably as heavy a rainfall as in New Britain, but while there are ..."
4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"Notes of a Collection of Birds from New Britain, new ireland, and the Duke of
York Islands, with some remarks on the Zoology of the Group By E. ..."
5. A Manual of the Mollusca; Or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1851)
"PAPUA AND new ireland. The landshells of New Guinea are nearly all distinct from
those c Philippines and Moluccas and include some related to the Polynesian ..."
6. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1905)
"CHAPTER XV new ireland THE Irish National party had for some time been passing
through changes which led to a new and, for Irish National purposes, ..."
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