Buka is a town located on the southern coast of Buka Island , in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville , in eastern Papua New Guinea . It is administered under Buka Rural LLG . It is the capital of the North Bougainville District and the interim capital of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. It contains Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral .
6-628: Buka can refer to: Buka, Papua New Guinea , the capital of Autonomous Region of Bougainville Buka Rural LLG in Papua New Guinea Buka, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland) Buka, Uzbekistan (Buká), a town in the Tashkent Province of Uzbekistan Buka Island , the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville Buka (music) ,
12-567: Is served by Buka Airport . Discovered by Europeans in 1768, the German Empire laid claim to the island in 1899, annexing it into German New Guinea . Buka became the capital of the Bougainville Province decades later, during the 1990s Bougainville Civil War . The former, or "proper" capital of Bougainville, Arawa , was all but destroyed in 1990 as tensions reached a critical level in a civil uprising, which ended with
18-407: The hills in the southwest, and the interior of the island is densely forested. Rainfall is abundant, with more than 100 inches (2,500 mm) annually. Coral reefs fringe the south and west coasts, the latter deeply indented by Queen Carola Harbour. Buka consists of three major geological units: a plateau of uplifted coral reefs, steep hills and coral formations of post-Pleistocene age. The city
24-420: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buka&oldid=973803355 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Buka, Papua New Guinea The city and Buka Island are separated from
30-482: The northern tip of Bougainville Island by the deep, narrow Buka Passage, which varies in width from 980 to 3,000 feet (300 to 1,070 metres). Both islands are in the northern Solomon Islands archipelago and the only major ones not within the nation of Solomon Islands . Buka Island is volcanic formation measuring 35 miles by 9 miles (56 km by 14 km), with a total land area of 190 square miles (492 km²). The elevation reaches to 1,634 feet (498 metres) in
36-399: The opening of a gamelan composition Buka cloak , a Noongar Southwest Australian indigenous word describing, usually, a kangaroo-skin cloak worn draped over one shoulder. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Buka . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
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