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	Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Papua New Guinea or PNG, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is occupied by the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya).
		Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
		New Guinea is part of the humid tropics, and many Indomalayan rainforest plants spread across the narrow straits from Asia, mixing together with the old Australian and Antarctic floras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papua_New_Guinea (3712 words)

	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.
		New Guinea has 284 species and six orders of mammals: (monotremes, three orders of marsupials, rodents and bats); 195 of the mammal species (69%) are endemic.
		The gardens of the New Guinea highlands are ancient, intensive permacultures, adapted to high population densities, very high rainfalls (as high as 10,000 mm/yr (400 in/yr)), earthquakes, hilly land, and occasional frost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Guinea (2164 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The climate of New Guinea is characterized in general by its great heat and humidity, and in the low-lying districts fever abounds.
		New Guinea is divided politically into the Dutch, German, and English protectorates, the last two being known officially as Kaiserwilhelmsland and the Territory of Papua.
		The Prefecture Apostolic of Dutch New Guinea was separated from the Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia on 22 December, 1902.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10783a.htm (2282 words)

	New Guinea - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about New Guinea
		Masks made by villagers along the Sepik River in New Guinea are generally carved from soft wood (though some are made of clay moulded over a coconut shell) and decorated with shells, pig tusks, and feathers.
		In 1884 the area of Papua on the southeast coast was proclaimed a protectorate by the British, and in the same year Germany took possession of the northeast quarter of New Guinea.
		New Guinea is separated from Australia by the Torres Strait.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /New+Guinea (769 words)

	Papua New Guinea (09/05)
		The term "New Guinea" was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Íñigo Ortiz de Retes, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast.
		Papua New Guinea's politics are highly competitive with most members elected on a personal and ethnic basis within their constituencies rather than as a result of party affiliation.
		New governments are protected by law from votes of no confidence for the first 18 months of their incumbency, and no votes of no confidence may be moved in the 12 months preceding a national election.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm (4351 words)

	New Guinea
		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.
		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.
	www.prigsbee.com /maps/islands/newguinea.html (176 words)

	Netherlands New Guinea
		Melanesia includes (from west to east) the island of New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the Bismarck and Louisiade archipelagoes; the Solomon Islands and the Santa Cruz Islands; New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands; Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides); Fiji; Norfolk Island; and numerous smaller islands.
		New Guinea is the second largest island in the world (after Greenland); about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) long (from northwest to southeast) and about 400 miles (640 km) wide at its widest (north to south), covering an area of about 309,000 square miles (791,000 square km).
		(Irian is the Indonesian name for New Guinea: barat = "west"; jaya = "glorious" or "victorious.") West Papua fronts the Ceram Sea and the Banda Sea on the west, the Arafura Sea on the southwest, and the Pacific Ocean on the north; it is bounded by Papua New Guinea on the east.
	www.vanderheijden.org /ng (472 words)

	Papua New Guinea travel guide - Wikitravel
		Papua New Guinea (known popularly as 'PNG') - the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (which is the second largest island in the world) - was divided between Germany ('German New Guinea') and Great Britain ('British Papua') in 1884.
		During World War II New Guinea was the site of fierce fighting on land (at Buin and on the Kokoda trail) and sea (at the Battle of the Coral Sea) - it was the first place in the war where the Japanese advance was checked and then reversed.
		After the war, both New Guinea and Papua were adminstered from the government center of Port Moresby on the south coast, in Papua.
	wikitravel.org /en/Papua_New_Guinea (2260 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Papua New Guinea
		Papua New Guinea had to deal with separatist forces of its own on the island of Bougainville in the 1990s.
		But an Australian study warned in 2004 that Papua New Guinea risked economic and social collapse and said the country was a target for international crime.
		Radio is an important medium in Papua New Guinea, a country with widely-scattered, isolated settlements and low levels of literacy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1246074.stm (601 words)

	Publications & Publishers in Papua New Guinea by John Evans, UNPG
		Not all of these were produced in Papua New Guinea because of the scope of coverage of the New Guinea Bibliography.
		Papua New Guinea, as many other countries, places a heavy reliance on imports, generally costly, often produced by transnational corporations and seldom with the country's development needs in mind.
		In Papua New Guinea existing distribution is through bookstores, news agencies and department stores mainly in the larger towns.
	www.pngbuai.com /000general/publishers/papuanewguinea/pngpubs00.html (3752 words)

	Papua New Guinea
		New Guinea and some of Papua were invaded by Japanese forces in 1942.
		In 1997, Papua New Guinea's government hired South African mercenary soldiers to fight on Bougainville in order to end the long-running crisis, but this action led to massive demonstrations and the mercenary contract was rescinded.
		Papua New Guinea: History - History Papua, the southern section of the country, was annexed by Queensland in 1883 and the...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107875.html (905 words)

	New Guinea Craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW GUINEA CRAFT is a business based in Canberra Australia.
		Village weavers in Papua New Guinea have been fashioning these beautiful bags for centuries.
		The tree bark or striped Jute leaf is prepared by soaking in water for up to 6 months before drying and then the strands of bark are rolled on the weavers thigh into twine.
	www.newguineacraft.com.au (190 words)

	New Guinea
		Yet Allied operations in New Guinea were essential to the U.S. Navy's drive across the Central Pacific and to the U.S. Army's liberation of the Philippine Islands from Japanese occupation.
		The Japanese roadblock to MacArthur's scheme was the so-called Bismarck Barrier, that is, New Britain and its naval and air bases at Rabaul in combination with the series of Japanese air enclaves dispersed along the northern New Guinea coastline.
		On New Guinea Australian troops of the 7th Division were ahead of schedule, advancing rapidly through the Ramu Valley on the south side of the Finisterre Range.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/new-guinea/ng.htm (8549 words)

	An Introduction to Papua New Guinea
		Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the rugged tropical island 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 of Papua New Guinea include the Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, New Ireland and the North Solomons.
		Papua New Guinea's climate is tropical, as one would expect in a country located just south of the Equator.
	www.geographia.com /papua-newguinea (262 words)

	Tsunamis and Earthquakes - 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami Descriptive Model - USGS WCMG
		The tsunami that struck New Guinea on July 17, 1998 was the most devastating tsunami since the 1976 Moro Gulf, Philippines, tsunami and may surpass that event (Lockridge and Smith, 1984; Satake and Imamura, 1995).
		New Guinea is a seismically active region, the site of an arc-continent collision, where tectonic plates are converging and sliding past each other.
		Active deformation in the New Guinea fold-and-thrust belt: Seismological evidence for strike-slip faulting and basement-involved thrusting, J. Geophys.
	walrus.wr.usgs.gov /tsunami/PNG.html (1160 words)

	Crocodilian Species - New Guinea Crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nesting biology of Crocodylus novaeguineae in Lake Murray District, Papua New Guinea.
		Cranial morphology of New Guinea (Crocodylus novaeguineae) crocodiles: ontogenetic variation in relative growth of the skull and an assessment of its utility as a predictor of the sex and size of individuals.
		Status of Crocodylus porosus and Crocodylus novaeguineae populations in Papua New Guinea, 1981-1994.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/csp_cnov.htm (770 words)

	PAPUA NEW GUINEA ORCHID NEWS
		The major landmass is the island of New Guinea, which is the largest tropical island and the second largest island in the world.
		The Orchidaceae of New Guinea represents the largest percentage of all known orchid species in the world with an estimated 3,200 species out of a total of some 30,000.
		Research of the Orchidaceae of New Guinea since Rudolf Schlechter has been sporadic at best and the Orchidaceae of New Guinea is much less researched and understood than those of SE Asia or Central and South America.
	www.orchidspng.com (234 words)

	Where do you want to go birding in Papua New Guinea today?
		Birdwatching in Papua New Guinea - This is the land of Birds of
		Birding in New Guinea must be among the most difficult anywhere, but with patience, skill, persistence and a fair bit of luck we managed to see an outstanding assortment of the New Guinea avifauna.
		Birding in New Guinea must be amongst the most difficult anywhere, but with patience, skill, persistence and a fair bit of luck we managed to see a very pleasing assortment of the New Guinea avifauna.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/papapuanewguineahtm.htm (1370 words)

	WWF \| New Guinea
		The island is blessed with remarkably diverse forests that are home to a rich variety species and cover about 65 percent of the land area of New Guinea.
		In fact, New Guinea has the largest remaining intact block of tropical forests in the Asia-Pacific region and is the largest tropical rain forest after the Amazon and the Congo.
		WWF has a long history in New Guinea, working to preserve its forests and wildlife while helping its unique, diverse culture survive a multitude of threats.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/ng/index.cfm (189 words)

	Papua New Guinea
		Visitors to Papua New Guinea should avoid using taxis or buses, known as Public Motor Vehicles (PMV's), and should instead rely on their sponsor or hotel to arrange for taxi service or a rental car.
		Travel to isolated places in Papua New Guinea is possible primarily by small passenger aircraft; there are many small airstrips throughout the country.
		Papua New Guinea is prone to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and sudden tidal movements.
	travel.state.gov /travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_996.html (2028 words)

	South Pacific Tourism Organisation - Papua New Guinea PNG Accommodation Activities Calendar Photo Gallery
		Papua New Guinea sia country of wild beauty, of breathe taking landscapes and of fascinating flora and fauna.
		Papua New Guinea is a country rich in natural resources but its wealth of tradition, beauty and history is unparalleled in the Pacific.
		Papua New Guinea has the biggest land mass of all the island nations of the region, covering 465,000 km2 and includes some 600 islands, atolls and coral reefs that guard the nations coastline and unites 200 different and distinct cultures and over 800 different languages.
	www.spto.org /destinations/png/index.shtml (291 words)

	The Coffees of Indonesia: Papua New Guinea
		Papua New Guinea is a distinct coffee among the Indonesians, even though it doesn't even have an entire island to call it's own.
		I have also cupped small farm, natural dry-processed Papua New Guineas and been astounded with the depth, range of flavors and subtleties of the cup: homefully we will see something of this kind available as a commercial coffee in the US market at some time.
		Notes: Papua New Guinea occupies the Eastern half of the island it shares with the Indonesian provice of Irian (no organized coffee production originates from Irian) There can be a huge range of cups from Papua New Guinea, and the so-called Plantation coffees represent the cleaner character of the coffee produced on the island...
	www.sweetmarias.com /coffee.indonesia.newguinea.html (1304 words)

	Amazon.com: Lonely Planet Papua, New Guinea (Lonely Planet Papua New Guinea): Books: Adrian Lipscomb,Rowan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Papua New Guinea, by Tony Wheeler and Jon Murray, pulls no punches; it is up-front about the potential for trouble on the island--everything from crime to insurgency.
		At no time was Papua New Guinea com joined to South-East Asia, but it was joined to Australia by a land bridge which allowed migration further south.
		Instead, in covering the fascinating land of Papua New Guinea, this author has done an excellent job, and not much else really needs to be added: this is indeed the Lonely Planet standard, that is to say, an excellent standard.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0864424027?v=glance (1755 words)

	Papua New Guinea map and information page by World Atlas
		Europeans first arrived in Papua New Guinea in the 16th century, and it was subsequently settled in the 19th century by both the Germans and British.
		Papua New Guinea includes the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, and the island of Bougainville, itself still (politically) part of the Solomon Islands.
		The central core of the main island is mountainous with deep, green valleys dotted with mysterious and remote villages.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/pg.htm (392 words)

	Embassy of Papua New Guinea to the Americas, Washington, DC
		Papua New Guinea is located in the South Pacific and lies 3 degrees north and 11 degrees south of the Equator.
		Papua New Guinea consists of a mainland and a collection of islands of varying sizes.
		The mainland is really part of the island of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland.
	www.pngembassy.org (164 words)

	Papua New Guinea Life
		Papua New Guinea was all of this and a lot more.
		Admittedly the paper was actually last weekends, but only the news was out of date, the rest was great, and of course it cost a pretty price (K18.90) but hey I enjoyed it.
		This was something new for them, and they even got training in how to correctly use them.
	pnglife.blogspot.com (4058 words)

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