< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NEW MECKLENBURG, an island formerly known as New Ireland (q. v.), in the Bismarck archipelago, 350 miles N. E. of New Guinea. It has an area of about 5,000 square miles, consisting chiefly of mountains. Little is known of the interior. It is very thinly populated.
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