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New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5000 BC. Netherlands New Guinea and the Australian territories were invaded in 1942 by the Japanese. The gardens of the New Guinea highlands are ancient, intensive permacultures, adapted to high population densities, very high rainfalls (as high as 10,000mm/yr (400in/yr)), earthquakes, hilly land, and occasional frost. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Guinea   (1730 words)

Torres Strait on Encyclopedia.com (Papua New Guinea)(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea) Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide. www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TorresS1t.asp   (476 words)

Regional overview: Oceania (Papua New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand) Although most of New Zealand's remaining frontiers are legally protected, all are threatened by introduced species, such as the Australian brush-tailed possum, which are taking a heavy toll on the nation's endemic flora. Papua New Guinea (PNG) still possesses large areas of intact tropical forest -- 40 percent of its original forest. Australia's remaining frontier forests are confined largely to Tasmania, Cape York, and the northwestern region. forests.wri.org /pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1093   (650 words)

phalanger on Encyclopedia.com Arboriculture and agriculture in coastal Papua New Guinea.(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea) INTRODUCED WRITING AND CHRISTIANITY: DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS TO RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE ASABANO(1).(native tribe on Papua New Guinea) It is found throughout Australia and adjacent areas, especially in woods, but also in towns; it has adapted well to human settlement and clearing. encyclopedia.com /html/p1/phalange.asp   (416 words)

New Guinea The northern coast of New Guinea was known to western mapmakers in the 16th century, but many maps into the 1700s show it as being part of the Australian continent. The northern coast of New Guinea is now better defined than in the earlier maps, and this map includes part of "Carpentarie", the Carpentaria Bay of modern Australia. The island of New Guinea, is today divided into two parts: Irian Jaya (part of Indonesia) in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east. www.prigsbee.com /maps/islands/newguinea.html   (148 words)

Transport - Papua New Guinea - Australia railways 19th Century & 1914 on ... In 1884, the German colonisation of New Guinea brought action by Britain to annex the southern part of the island as British New Guinea (BNG). But the relationship was more pronounced in Australia where the desire to conquer the tyranny of distance across a vast dry continent brought railways to a level of dominance in government, the economy and social relations unmatched elsewhere. In New South Wales, the sugar industry was established on a central milling system based on individual family farms linked to central crushing mills by extensive sugar railway networks. www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railaust19c1.html   (3934 words)

Endemism in Australian mammals New Guinea and Australia have relatively similar mammal faunas because they were once one land mass until 15 million years ago when the land bridge between them subsided. GONDWANA - the ancient southern supercontinent that included Australia, New Guinea, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica. Australia possesses a unique assemblage of mammal species, of which over 80% are endemic. www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/mammals.htm   (340 words)

Australia-New Guinea -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article These land masses are separated by the (A strait between northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea) Torres Strait (Australia and New Guinea) and the (Click link for more info and facts about Bass Strait) Bass Strait (Australia and Tasmania). For Australia-New Guinea, it brought a marked intensification of the drying trend. The collision caused the northern part of the continent to buckle upwards, forming the high and rugged mountains of New Guinea and, by reverse (downwards) buckling, the Torres Strait that now separates the two main landmasses. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Au/Australia-New_Guinea1.htm   (573 words)

Minister to attend Australia - Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum This is a practical example of Australia’s contribution to security in Papua New Guinea. From a Defence perspective this visit is an opportunity to reinforce the importance the Australian Government places on reform and downsizing of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. "Australia has contributed $20 million to supporting reform within the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. www.defence.gov.au /minister/Hilltpl.cfm?CurrentId=2067   (357 words)

Papua New Guinea Located roughly 300 miles north of Australia, Papua New Guinea, PNG occupies the eastern half of New Guinea, which it shares with the Indonesian territory of Irian Jaya, as well as numerous smaller islands and atolls in the Pacific. The smaller island groups include the Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, New Ireland and the North Solomons. The central part of the island rises into a spine of mountains, known as the "Highlands". members.cox.net /antonsteenman/liveaboards/papua_new_guinea.htm   (326 words)

APNGFA Informative Links The flag of Papua New Guinea is shown and described, along with the Naval ensign, flag of Bougainbille, flag of Port Moresby and the colonial flag of Papua. The New Guinea sections cover both PNG and Irian Jaya (predominantly the former) and contains pretty good summaries and comparisons of ecological and other data on forest folks in this part of the world (Polly Wiessner was a major contributor to this part of the overall report). My most recent visits to Papua New Guinea were in the summers of 1994 and 1995, researching a Gende business woman and doing consulting for a mining company operating in the sparsely populated mountains to the north of the Gende villages. southpacific.arts.unsw.edu.au /apngfa_png/APNGFA_Informative_Links.html   (1168 words)

Papua New Guinea - Australia Fisheries Cooperation Under the Treaty, Australia and Papua New Guinea are required to cooperate in the conservation and management of the commercial fisheries of the TSPZ. In the context of fisheries management, Australia’s involvement with Papua New Guinea centres on tuna management in the Central Western Pacific (as managed under the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission) and the Torres Strait Treaty. Five of these fisheries are known as Article 22 fisheries and are jointly managed by Papua New Guinea and Australia (under the subsidiary conservation and management arrangements discussed above). www.affa.gov.au /content/output.cfm?ObjectID=6CAAADA1-0E2E-4DF6-93190CE77C0C25E1   (502 words)

Papua New Guinea Could Become Crime Base (phillyBurbs.com) Australia, N.Z., Antarctica, Pacific Australia plans to post 210 police and more than 60 bureaucrats to the country early next year to improve Papua New Guinea's law and order, economic management, border control and transport security. CANBERRA, Australia - Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific's largest island state, is spiraling toward economic and social collapse and could become a transnational crime base that destabilizes the region, a leading Australian think-tank warned Tuesday. Despite being rich in resources like timber and minerals, Papua New Guinea's outlook is bleak with economic growth outstripped by a soaring birth rate which is expected to bring the population to 10 million by 2020, he said. www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/92-12142004-416633.html   (464 words)

New Zealand, Australia & Papua New Guinea - Abercrombie & Kent Ancient Cultures of Papua New Guinea & Northern Australia New Zealand, Australia & Papua New Guinea - Abercrombie & Kent Aussies and Kiwis (Australians and New Zealanders) are friendly, the lifestyle is relaxed and informal, the sun shines and the beaches are golden: “Down Under” is a vacation paradise, especially for family travellers. www.abercrombiekent.com /index.cfm?navid=3.8.5   (332 words)

Australia-Papua New Guinea Business Council Breakfast, Port Moresby It is going to be a very important ceremony in the history of Papua New Guinea, and for Australia. That will be very good for Papua New Guinea, particularly bearing in mind that a number of long standing projects are starting to come to the end of their lives and will affect the Papua New Guinea economy. For example, within the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary we would like to see a properly resourced anti-corruption unit – well-resourced, I mean they do have one but I mean it has a budget of K300-K400, 000 a year and employs a very small number of people. www.foreignminister.gov.au /speeches/2005/050824_png.html   (3317 words)

Trans-Tasman and New Guinea Airmail The return journey from Lae was the first official air mail from New Guinea to Australia and a cachet indicating this was applied in Lae on the back of the cover. Lae in New Guinea was reached on 27 July and this is shown in the Lae backstamp. The 7d was enough for the trans-Tasman flight, but not for the onward flight to New Guinea which required a total postage of 1/1. www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk /air/air34/newguinea.html   (632 words)

Australia - Papua New Guinea Enhanced Cooperation Program Australia and Papua New Guinea have entered into a historic package of enhanced cooperation to help PNG address its key challenges. While remaining attached to their 'home' employers, the Australian officials will work within the organisational structures of the agencies where they are placed and be answerable to Papua New Guinean agency heads. These are being developed into a monitoring and evaluation framework that will be able to illustrate progress and achievements to the governments and peoples of both Australia and Papua New Guinea. www.ausaid.gov.au /hottopics/topic.cfm?Id=2214_2235_3508_3213_7448   (599 words)

Antiquity: Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea. (Papua New Guinea)(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia & Papua New Guinea)@ HighBeam Research (Papua New Guinea)(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea) (Papua New Guinea)(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea)@ HighBeam Research The archaeology of the New Guinea Highlands provides a glimpse into how prehistoric settlers adapted to environmental and climatic changes during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17845239&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (211 words)

Socialist Party Australia - Papua New Guinea: A socialist analysis In 1975, Australia gave PNG its independence, while this was a landmark step for the people of Papua New Guinea, corruption, lawlessness, separatist tensions and poverty continued and deepened. To many both in Australia and in Papua New Guinea, it will be seen as a solution to the ‘law and order’ crisis in PNG but in reality it will create an even deeper crisis. Thirdly and the most obvious is that Australian capitalists want their interests in Papua New Guinea in terms of mining, fishing and industry to be better protected than it would be under PNG control. www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=450   (951 words)

Australia/NZ/Oceania Don't even get me started Jame Durie's pronounciation of 'Kia Ora' in the special New Zealand introductions and conclusions of The Block, which has huge billboards on the side of high-rise buildings in central Auckland, because we kiwis are so obsessed with Australia that we can't get enough. Instead, it has been replaced with a national New Zealand news bulletin produced in Sydney by some former New Zealanders at Sky News Australia. A new show, funded almost entirely with the help of the New Zealand Government and Kerry Packer, is finally airing 18 months after it was supposed to start. open-site-talk.org /forums/about135.html   (1089 words)

Black sigatoka - Australia & Papua New Guinea The border of Australia nearly reaches Papua New Guinea (PNG) so that almost all the Torres Strait islands are in Australia. Black sigatoka - Australia and Papua New Guinea Subject: PRO/PL> Black sigatoka - Australia and Papua New Guinea laurel.nal.usda.gov /agnic/pmp/2001/bsa010101.html   (312 words)

Australia-Papua New Guinea Business and Cultural Society (inc) A small group consisting mainly of people who have lived and served in Papua New Guinea formed the Australia-Papua New Guinea Society Inc. in 1985. It was recognised and supported by the Government of Papua New Guinea, through the Office of the Consulate in Queensland, and the State Government of Queensland. The Papua New Guinea - Queensland Business Association Inc. was established in November 1990 primarily to help further Papua New Guinea and Queensland's mutual interests in each other's markets in terms of trade and investment. www.apng.org.au   (261 words)

Australia Service Locations Intertek Caleb Brett offers a full range of testing and inspection services to a wide range of industries in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea Services Industries serviced in Australia, New Zealand and PNG include: www.itscb.com /newsitetest/services/au   (55 words)

PapuaWeb: Peta Sejarah - Papua - History Maps Note: There are a number of controversies surrounding the European discovery of Australia and New Guinea. Many of the islands situated on the west and north-west coast of New Guinea became known to the Portuguese at an early date, and were named collectively OS PAPUAS. The Portuguese discoveries in New Guinea occupy what might be described as the fowl's head and neck. www.papuaweb.org /gb/peta/sejarah/collingridge   (939 words)

Papua New Guinea & Australia With a little research, however, I discovered that Cairns is the jumping off point for Papua New Guinea, which was rated by the readers of Rodale's Scuba Diving magazine as the number 1 dive destination worldwide in 1999. She blanketed the whole New York area on May 10 with rain and fog, which completely bogged down operations at all three NYC airports. I thought I was prepared for the water temperatures since I was wearing a pretty new 5mm wetsuit, and the water was 78 degrees Fahrenheit (25.5 degrees Celsius). www.westnet.com /~wjakab/diving/png-gbr/png-gbr.htm   (6368 words)

Australia - Papua New Guinea Aid Treaty The Foreign Ministers of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Alexander Downer and Roy Yaki, initialled the text of a Treaty on Development Cooperation in Adelaide today. Under the Treaty Australia will provide a maximum of $300 million annually for aid activities in Papua New Guinea from July 2000 to June 2003. The Treaty will make Australia's aid program to Papua New Guinea more accountable as well as responsive to the needs of Papua New Guineans throughout the country. www.ausaid.gov.au /media/release.cfm?BC=Media&Id=5181_579_4692_1286_3180   (323 words)

Antiquity: The development of Sahul agriculture with Australia as bystander.(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia & Papua New Guinea)@ HighBeam Research Antiquity; 1/1/1995; Yen, D.E. The development of agriculture occurred earlier in Papua New Guinea than in Australia at the southern portion of the Sahul continent. The development of Sahul agriculture with Australia as bystander.(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea) Antiquity: The development of Sahul agriculture with Australia as bystander.(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea)@ HighBeam Research www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17845241&refid=ip_search   (212 words)

australia new singapore cyprus ppp gdp and other cyprus related information Australia 29,893 14 Belgium 29,707 15 Netherlands 29,332 16 Finland 29,305 17... Australia $393,900.0 18 Argentina $374,000.0 19 Thailand $369,000.0 20 Taiwan... Australia 605,942 17 Turkey 552,990 18 Netherlands 520,918 19 Thailand 510... www.nethorde.com /cyprus/australia-new-singapore-cyprus-ppp-gdp.html   (321 words)

Australia and New Zealand Police Games All police and full-time government law enforcement employees and retirees from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands are invited to the games. The 2001 Games were held in November 2001 in Gold Coast, Australia, and were called in some sources the Australia and New Zealand Police and Emergency Services Games. The first Australia and New Zealand Police Games were held in 1984. www.internationalgames.net /anzpolice.htm   (107 words)

11th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum Established under the 1987 Joint Declaration of Principles, the Ministerial Forum is held on an annual basis and the venue alternates between Australia and Papua New Guinea. It also provides an excellent opportunity to develop further the close ties that have been established between our two countries and to build on the visit to Australia in August by Prime Minister Skate and the visits to Papua New Guinea be myself on 10- 11 December and Mr Fischer from 18-21 December. This year's Forum will also see, for the first time, participation by the business communities from Australia and Papua New Guinea. www.dfat.gov.au /media/releases/foreign/1998/fa155_98.html   (343 words)

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