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- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea or PNG) is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
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- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea or PNG) is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It involves a ... and alliance in the Sepik Coast area of Papua New Guinea. ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 05:31, 11 December 2022
- Strait flooded around 5000 B.C.E. The name Papua has also been long-associated ... Many institutions are interested in Papua New Guinea’s terrestrial ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- German New Guinea is now entirely part of Papua New Guinea. The main part ... to map the border with Australian-held Papua. He claimed to have penetrated ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- consist of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and Papua Barat (formerly ... and New Guinea. The independent country of Papua New Guinea also includes ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- [[Image:Trobriand.png|right|350px|thumb|Trobriand Islands map, Papua ... Guinea, situated in Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea. Most of the population ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- live in Queensland today. The proximity to Papua New Guinea became an issue ... a A$2 billion gas pipeline from Kutubu in Papua New Guinea across the Torres ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- #039;s long-beaked echidna, is found mainly in Papua New Guinea at elevations between 2000 and 3000 meters. It is the smallest member of the genus, ...11 KB (1,540 words) - 02:46, 1 October 2020
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, comprising more than 990 islands. Its capital is Honiara, located on the ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- efforts, including Maluku, Nusa Tenggara, Papua and Kalimantan. Later, Christianity ... Indonesia has two Protestant-majority provinces, which are Papua and ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- ===Nor-Papua=== Among the Nor-Papua people, who live in the northern region of New ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- is the only continental country, and Papua New Guinea and East Timor ... * Papua New Guinea – Commonwealth Realm * Solomon Islands – Commonwealth ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- over some islands in the South China Sea. Papua politically belongs to Southeast ... meters (13,455 ft) and also Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia at 4,884 meters ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- A nudibranch is any of the soft-bodied, shell-less marine gastropods comprising the mollusk taxon (order or suborder) Nudibranchia. Found on ...14 KB (1,887 words) - 17:15, 14 October 2021
- ===Papua New Guinea=== The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea, separated from the ecclesiastical ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- the sport is played professionally. In Papua New Guinea, rugby league ... is also recognized as the national sport in Papua New Guinea. ...29 KB (4,628 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- Python is the common name for any of the non-venomous constricting snakes comprising the Old World family Pythonidae, characterized by paired ...15 KB (2,266 words) - 15:06, 2 July 2022
- [[Image:Borneo(E),Sulawesi(Celebes),Maluku(Molluccas),BirdsHead(Papua).jpg|320px|right|thumb|E. Borneo, Sulawesi, Maluku (Moluccas), Birds Head ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Crying Meri: Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea] Retrieved June16 ... Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society. University ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- from South Africa, a Nigerian, a Frenchman, a Papua New Guinean, a Bougainville Islander ,and a Han Chinese—showed that between 4% and 6% of the ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- * Radford, A. 1976. Giant millipede burns in Papua New Guinea. P N G Med J 18(3): 138-141. * Ramel, G. 2007. [http://www.earthlife.net/insects/diplopoda ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- and the Vailala Madness that arose in Northern Papua New Guinea. ... anthropologists to conduct fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, though it is ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- Chinese ports. Similar pidgins have developed in Papua New Guinea and West Africa. However, sometimes the acculturation has an irreversible impact ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- United Nations' role in the takeover of West Papua by Indonesia. Tutu said: "For many years the people of South Africa suffered under the ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- are found in tropical Africa, in the jungles of Papua, or in the highly civilized conditions of American cities. ...we can distinguish a race ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- === 1998 - Papua New Guinea === On July 17, 1998, a Papua New Guinea tsunami killed approximately ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- to each other and to the mainland of Asia, while Papua and the Australian continent at that time lay on the Sahul shelf. This original geographical segregation ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- with the Netherlands over Dutch New Guinea (West Papua). After West Papua declared itself independent in December of 1961, Sukarno ordered raids on ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- might have been like. Such tribes can be found in Papua New Guinea, Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Philippines, Africa, and South America. One ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. The Melanesian Brotherhood, founded at Tabalia, Guadalcanal, in 1925 by Ini Kopuria, is ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- |Papua New Guinea||Port Moresby |- |Pitcairn Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)||Adamstown |Samoa||Apia |- |Solomon Islands||Honiara ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- now known as Medicare; gave independence to Papua New Guinea; made all university ... on September 1, 1975, just two weeks before Papua New Guinea's independence ...39 KB (5,698 words) - 00:11, 3 January 2024
- * The Nakanai Mountains, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea ==References== * Ford, Derek, and Paul Williams. 2007. Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- Swamp in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea suggests that ... Tracing antiquity of banana cultivation in Papua New Guinea]. Australia & ...28 KB (4,308 words) - 04:25, 11 January 2023
- Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines ... along the coasts of Australia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua, Panama ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- Snakes of the subfamily Boinae are found in Madagascar, Papua, Pacific Islands, and the Neotropics. True boas are medium to large sized snakes ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- inspired by Nyerere also taught at the University of Papua New Guinea in the 1980s, helping educated Melanesians familiarize themselves with his ideas. ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 06:41, 28 February 2023
- *German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea, today Papua-New-Guinea; 1884 – 1914) **Kaiser-Wilhelmsland **Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck-Archipel) ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- |image = Pygoscelis papua.jpg |image_width = 240px ... ** Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua * Eudyptula--Little penguins ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- Other producers include India, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Caribbean islands such as St. Vincent. The principal import markets ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- colonial era, are important in New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea, and vanilla is raised for export on Tonga. Coconut, the source of copra, or dried coconut ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- of New Zealand Jews, Maori, and urban Papua New Guineans (Pieterlen and ... of New Zealand Jews, Maori, and urban Papua New Guineans. Pieterlen and ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- In 1976, the Melanesian state of Papua New Guinea was accorded observer ... Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Timor ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- * Ghe Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia's West Papua province offers ... Inhabitants of Ahus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, have ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- Around the waters of Papua New Guinea, natives have been known for hunting dugongs. However, they also hunt dugong's predators, such as sharks. ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- of only two thousand speakers per language); only Papua New Guinea comes close. All the indigenous languages are Austronesian languages. ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- *The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea *The Anglican Church of Southern Africa *The Anglican Church of Tanzania *The Church of Bangladesh ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- mining and milling operations in Papua, a province of Indonesia. In February 2000, then-president of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid appointed Kissinger ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- and Asians (e.g. French, Han Chinese, and Papua New Guinean) is non-modern ... South Africa, a Nigerian, a Frenchman, a Papua New Guinean, a Bougainville ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- (North Territory, Queensland), New Guinea and Papua New Guinea. |- |Ephalophis |M.A. Smith, 1931 |align="center"|1 |align="center ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- was merged with the former British colony of Papua and was already administered by Australia) became an Australia trusteeship. ===The Jewish delegation ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- 1970 (West Pacific area (Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, etc) **False-eyed seahorse, Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001 ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- Republic of Guinea Bissau, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Russia, Sweden, and Thailand, as well as the United States and ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- from New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands to work on sugar cane plantations in Fiji and Queensland, ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Papua New Guinea. The country is a sovereign ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- United States and Australia, a copper mine in Papua New Guinea, and nonferrous metal mines in Australia and the Philippines. Answers.com, [http://www ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este, is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the eastern half of the island ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- navy to relocate them to other countries (Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, and Nauru) as part of the so-called Pacific Solution. ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- The Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua is one of the last surviving tribes in the world said to engage in cannibalism. It is also reported by ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- in the Tchambuli (now spelled Chambri) tribe of Papua New Guinea, without causing any societal problems. She also found that the Arapesh, both ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- htm Field Excursion to Milne Bay Province: Papua New Guinea]]. (accessed March 31, 2006). * Marine Reef. 2006. [http://www.marinereef.org/reports ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- Borneo, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara islands, Maluku, Papua, and some parts of Philippines islands are said to be under Majapahit’s influence. This would ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- include Indonesia, East Timor, Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippine Islands, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- war crimes committed in East Timor, Aceh, Papua and the Moluccan islands ... htm Indonesia's 1969 Takeover of West Papua Not by "Free Choice ...58 KB (8,552 words) - 13:46, 28 April 2023
- Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- *Ulawun, New Britain, Papua New Guinea *Mount Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan *Vesuvius, Naples, Italy |} ===Elsewhere in the Solar System === ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- by the Māori of New Zealand. Natives of Papua New Guinea are known to use several species of entheogenic mushrooms (Psilocybe spp, Boletus manicus ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Kalimantan for timber and oil, to Papua for mining, and to the cities of Sulawesi and Java. The out-migration of Torajans was steady until 1985. ...36 KB (5,331 words) - 23:49, 9 January 2024
- off Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, Japan, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea, and on the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia. Trichoplax adhaerens ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- photographs from the Gulf province of Papua New Guinea. ==Acquisitions and deaccessioning== During the 1970s, under the directorship of Thomas ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- #039;s 53rd largest country, comparable in size to Papua New Guinea and somewhat larger than the U.S. state of California. Tourist literature ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- and G. tomentella, both found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Theresa K. Herman, Jaeyeong Han, Ram J. Singh, Leslie L. Domier, and Glen L. ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- his own masculinity. In certain tribes of Papua New Guinea, it is considered ... and requiring submission. In some tribes of Papua New Guinea insemination of ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- airplane bases, and the town of Port Moresby on Papua New Guinea's south coast facing Australia. The Port Moresby Operation proved an unwelcome ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- is Tok Pisin, the official language of Papua New-Guinea, which originally ... linguistic diversity, such as the Americas, Papua New Guinea, West Africa, ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- Many species in the Americas, Africa, and Papua New Guinea consume clay, which both releases minerals and absorbs toxic compounds from the gut ...49 KB (7,385 words) - 18:44, 23 March 2023
- of the Order of Logohu by Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Michael Somare. Clinton was awarded the honor for his "outstanding leadership ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Service of New Zealand†Papua New Guinea National Weather Service†Bureau of Meteorology† (Australia) |- | Southeastern Indian Ocean|| Bureau ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- | || Australia || Released from trusteeship, Papua New Guinea gains independence. |- ! 1976 || United Kingdom || Seychelles archipelago in the ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- humans from China, France, sub-Saharan Africa, and Papua New Guinea. The finding is that about 1 to 4 percent of the genes of the non-Africans came ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
