Evacuation Of Volcano-Hit Papua New Guinea Island Gets UnderwayPort Moresby, PNG (AFP) Nov 28, 2004 An urgent evacuation of around 9,000 villagers from Papua New Guinea's remote Manam Island got underway Sunday amid fears the the island's volcano was on the verge of a major eruption, officials said. The first batch of hundreds of islanders were taken off the island by container boat in the morning, an official coordinating the evacuation told AFP from the remote community of Bogia, where the islanders are to be taken. "It is on its way to Bogia," disaster relief official John Bivi said, when...