Manus Island
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Manus Island is part of Manus Province in Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Admiralty Islands. It has a population of approximately 33,000. It is covered in rugged jungles, and has a highest point of 700 metres above sea level. The capital of Manus Province, Lorengau is located on Manus Island.
History
In 1942 Japan established a military base, only to be driven away by the Americans who arrived in 1944.
American anthropologist Margaret Mead lived on Manus before and after the war and detailed the account in the book "Growing up in New Guinea".
A detention centre was built on Manus Island in 2001 as part of Australia's Pacific Solution. The last inmate was Aladdin Sisalem, who was kept in solitary confinement from July 2003, until he was finally granted asylum in Australia in June 2004.