Bougainville

[ boo-gan-veel boo-guhn-vil, boh-, French boo-gan-veel ]

noun

1. Louis An·toine de [lwee ah, n, -, twan, d, uh], 1729–1811, French navigator.
2. the largest of the Solomon Islands, in the W Pacific Ocean: part of Papua New Guinea. 4,080 sq. mi. (10,567 sq. km).

Bougainville

¹

/ buɡɛ̃vil /

noun

1. BougainvilleLouis Antoine de17291811MFrenchTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator Louis Antoine de (lwi ɑ̃twan də). 1729–1811, French navigator

Bougainville

²

/ ˈbuːɡənˌvɪl /

noun

1. an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Tensions over the mine were a contributing factor in Bougainville’s independence movement, which continues to this day, and protests by locals led to the closing of the mine in 1989 and a decade-long civil conflict.

From New York Times

“This is an important step towards addressing insecurity and pain for the people in the impacted community areas,” Theonila Roka Matbob, a landowner from Makosi Village in Bougainville and a member of Bougainville’s Parliament, said in a statement released by the Human Rights Law Center.

From New York Times

In 2020, 156 residents of Bougainville, an island in an autonomous region of the country, accused the mining giant Rio Tinto of human rights and environmental violations related to what they said was its failure to clean up millions of tons of waste at the mine, Panguna, which closed more than three decades ago.

From New York Times

Rio Tinto said in a statement to Reuters that community representatives in Bougainville had been advised of the interim findings and the work being undertaken to better understand the risks and mitigations.

From Reuters

The report said the rapid risk assessment process would now be led by the local authorities in the Autonomous Bougainville Government, with the support of Rio Tinto and the Human Rights Law Centre.

From Reuters