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Vitu Islands
The Vitu Islands are a volcanic group with an area of 37 sq mi (96 km²) located in the Bismarck Sea off of New Britain, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. They are not technically part of the Bismarck Archipelago. Administratively they are part of Papua New Guinea. Formerly called the French Islands, the group is sometimes known as the Witu Islands.
==Geography==
The islands are volcanic ocean peaks, much as they are reef-ringed, not atolls, and are thereby highly fertile. Garove (Vitu, or Big Witu) and Unea (Bali) are the largest islands. The group was the chief copra center of Papua New Guinea, although cocoa is now the main crop harvested due to the depressed prices available for copra.
The islands are situated west of north of Talasea peninsula, Nth Coast New Britain, with Unea some E of south of the main group, and the remaining other islands Mundua (Ningau), situated eleven kilometers (7 mi.) northwest of Garove, and Naragé some twenty-four km (15 mi.) northwest of Mundua, the final extension of the sub-aqueous peaks chain being the Ottilian Reef (Attilian Reef) a further twenty-two km northwest of Naragé, this last all but totally submerged at all tide states, and dangerous to shipping. Sometimes the submerged Whirlwind Reef a further fifty-eight km to the southwest of the Ottilian Reef is included in the island arc.
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