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The density shown here is inconsistent with official Bougainville figures.

The Autonomous Bougainville Government’s Quick Facts page says the region’s land area is 9,384 km² and its population was 249,358 in the 2011 census. Using those same official numbers, the density is about 26.6 people per km² (249,358 ÷ 9,384), not 32.19.

The figure also does not match the newer official 2024 census summary, which gives the Autonomous Region of Bougainville a population density of 39 persons per km². So 32.19/km² fits neither the older official area/population figures nor the latest official census density.

This wording conflates the 2019 referendum result with later political timelines.

The Bougainville Referendum Commission’s archived official explainer says the ballot question was:

• “Do you agree for Bougainville to have: Greater Autonomy; or Independence?”

There was no date in the referendum question. Separately, the National Coordination Office for Bougainville Affairs says the referendum “presented a choice between greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea and full independence,” and that a later 2021 consultation set a political statement timeline of “no earlier than 2025 and no later than 2027.”

So voters did choose independence, but they did not vote in 2019 to become independent “by 2027.” That date came from later negotiations, not from the referendum ballot itself.

This sentence understates the maximum elevation of Bougainville’s volcanoes.

Oregon State University’s Volcano World identifies Balbi on Bougainville as a stratovolcano with an elevation of 2,715 m. The Autonomous Bougainville Government’s official Quick Facts page also says Bougainville’s highest feature is Mount Balbi, reaching 2,715 m above sea level.

Because at least one Bougainville volcano rises to 2,715 m, the statement that the island’s volcanoes “can rise to 2,400 m” is incorrect.

This gets the decade wrong.

Apple TV’s film description for Mr. Pip says the story takes place in Bougainville during “its civil war in the 1990s.” The official Hachette page for Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip, the novel the film is based on, is even more specific: “Bougainville, 1991.”

So the film’s setting is the 1990s, not the 1980s.