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BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BISMARCK See also:ARCHIPELAGO , the collective name of a large number of islands lying N. and N.E. of New See also:Guinea, between 1° and 7° S., and 146° and 153° E., belonging to See also:Germany. The largest See also:island is New See also:Pomerania, and the archipelago also includes New See also:Mecklenburg, New See also:Hanover, with small attendant islands, the See also:Admiralty Islands and a See also:chain of islands off the9 See also:coast of New Guinea, the whole See also:system lying in the See also:form of a See also:great See also:amphitheatre of See also:oval shape. The archipelago was named in See also:honour of the first See also:chancellor of the See also:German See also:empire, after a German See also:protectorate had been declared in 1884.

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