This series contains material from Bougainville and Buka Islands. It includes five comparative vocabulary lists, some of which are handwritten (one by Capell), and covers languages including Buin, Siwai, Nasioi, Nagovisi, Baitsi, Mabtn, Koram, Saposa, Petats, and Kunua.

Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and a province of Papua New Guinea. Bougainville and the adjacent island of Buka are sometimes called the North Solomons, and are ecologically and geographically, although not politically, considered part of the Solomon Islands. Buka, Bougainville, and most of the Solomons are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island

Buka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville. The island was the site of fighting between Australian, American and Japanese troops during World War II.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buka_Island

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04  Bougainville, Buka and Offshore Islands - Regions and Languages