page_title: New Ireland (island)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: New Ireland (island) / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Topographic map of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. Created with GMT from publicly released SRTM data.
context_page_description: New Ireland or Latangai, is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately 7,404 km² in area with c. 120,000 people. It is named after the island of Ireland. It is the largest island of New Ireland Province, lying northeast of the island of New Britain. Both islands are part of the Bismarck Archipelago, named after Otto von Bismarck, and they are separated by Saint George's Channel. The administrative centre of the island and of New Ireland province is the town of Kavieng located at the northern end of the island. While the island was part of German New Guinea, it was named Neumecklenburg.
context_section_description: The island is part of the Bismarck Archipelago and is often described as having the shape of a musket. For much of its 360 km (220 mi) in length, the island's width varies between less than 10 km (6.2 mi) to 40 km (25 mi), yet the central mountainous spine is very steep and rugged. The highest peak is Mount Taron in the Hans Meyer Range (2,340 m, 7,680 ft). Other mountain ranges are Tirpitz, Schleinitz, Verron and Rossel. The island lies between two and five degrees south of the equator. The original land cover was primarily dense rainforest.
  New Ireland is surrounded by the Bismarck Sea in the southwest and by the Pacific Ocean in the northeast.
caption: Topographic map of New Ireland
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