Tolokiwa Island, also known as Lottin Island, is an island in the
Bismarck Sea. The island is volcanic in origin and part of the
Bismarck Archipelago.
Description
Tolokiwa Island was built up by a series of volcanic eruptions during the
Pleistocene epoch. The well-vegetated[1] island is an important natural site for birds,[2] and is home to several species of resident birds (which it unusually shares with nearby islands).[3] Tolokiwa is also home to a subspecies of
Turdus Poliocephalus.[4]
The island sustained damage during the
1888 eruption of nearby
Ritter Island, which caused a tsunami to hit Tolokiwa.[5]
References
^Thornton, Ian W. B. (2001). "Colonization of an Island Volcano, Long Island, Papua New Guinea, and an Emergent Island, Motmot, in Its Caldera Lake. I. General Introduction". Journal of Biogeography. 28 (11/12): 1299–1310.
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10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00642.x.
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^Collins, Michael D.; Simberloff, Daniel; Connor, Edward F. (2011). "Binary matrices and checkerboard distributions of birds in the Bismarck Archipelago". Journal of Biogeography. 38 (12): 2373–2383.
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10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02506.x.
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^Diamond, Jared M. (March 1989). "A New Subspecies of the Island Thrush Turdus poliocephalus from Tolokiwa Island in the Bismarck Archipelago". Emu. 89 (1): 58–60.
doi:
10.1071/MU9890058.