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Vitu Islands
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Vitu Islands (vē`t), volcanic group, 37 sq mi (96 sq km), in the Bismarck Archipelago Bismarck Archipelago, volcanic island group, 19,200 sq mi (49,730 sq km), SW Pacific, a part of Papua New Guinea. The group includes New Britain (the largest island), New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, the Mussau Islands, New Hanover, the Vitu Islands, and the Duke
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, part of Papua New Guinea. Garove and Unea are the largest islands. The group is the chief copra center of Papua New Guinea. Formerly called the French Islands, the group is sometimes known as the Witu Islands.


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Connors, a scholar of the art and life of the West Indies, relates the social, cultural, architectural and interior design history of the French Islands to the accompaniment of sumptuous photographs by Buck, a renown photographer of interiors, architecture and the decorative arts.
 
 
 
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