Unea Island

Unea

Native name: Uniapa
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Geography
Location	Melanesia
Coordinates	4°53′0″S 149°9′0″E / 4.88333°S 149.15000°E / -4.88333; 149.15000
Archipelago	Vitu Islands
Adjacent to	Bismarck Sea
Administration
Papua New Guinea
Province	West New Britain Province
LLG	Bali/Witu Rural LLG
Demographics
Population	0 (2011)

Unea Island is an island in Papua New Guinea located in the Vitu Islands. It was occupied by Japan in World War II.^[1]

The Uneapa (or Bali) language is natively spoken on this island. In the local language, it is called Uniapa or Uneapa. The term Unea comes from the Vitu language, and they descend from a proto-form *Uneap or *Uniap, reflecting the addition of an echo vowel in Uneapa and the regular loss of final consonants in Vitu.