Inhabitant of Viti New Irland and New Guinea Islands. 1844.

Print of steel engraving titled „Habitant des Iles Viti De La Nouvelle Irland De La Nouvelle Guinee“.

Author Demoraine.

Engraved by Taillant.

From the „Histoires D‘Amerique, et D‘ Oceanie. Depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu‘a nos jours“ by M. Belloc. Paris. 1844.

Viti Levu is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji, the site of the nation's capital, Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population.

New Ireland (Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan) is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately 7,404 km² in area with ca. 120,000 people. It is the largest island of the 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 ("New Mecklenburg"). The Hawaiian Islands are the exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The islands are about 1,860 miles (3,000 km) from the nearest continent.

New Guinea is a large Island in the South West Pacific region.It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2.

Approx. image size 15, 7 x 10, 3/23, 1 x 14, 4 cm. Condition: good.