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	Papua New Guinea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		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).
		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.
		Papua New Guinea - culture. Datec Pty Ltd. Retrieved on 2005-12-16.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Papua_New_Guinea (3705 words)

	Western New Guinea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Western New Guinea is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
		The border with Papua New Guinea is a mix between the artificial border of the 141st meridian, and the natural border of the Fly River.
		The combined population of the Indonesian provinces of West Irian Jaya and Papua, constituting all of Western New Guinea, was estimated to be 2,646,489 in 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Western_New_Guinea (3527 words)

	Papua New Guinea - MSN Encarta
		Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, called the mainland, and several hundred smaller islands.
		The smaller islands of Papua New Guinea all lie to the east and north.
		The coastline of mainland Papua New Guinea is mostly low-lying.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555535/Papua_New_Guinea.html (830 words)

	New Guinea
		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.
		The Territory of Papua was an Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949.
		The region of West New Guinea is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
	www.shortopedia.com /N/E/New_Guinea (520 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 mainstay of the Japanese defense was a lone infantry regiment.
		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)

	Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species in remote New Guinea
		Among the new species of birds, frogs, butterflies and palms discovered in the expedition through this pristine environment, untouched by man, was the spectacular Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise.
		Tree kangaroos, which are endangered elsewhere in New Guinea, were numerous and the team found one species entirely new to the island.
		Among their discoveries were healthy populations of the rare and little-known lace-eyed frog and a new population of another frog, the Xenorhina arboricola, which had previously only been known to exist in Papua New Guinea.
	www.infowars.com /articles/science/new_guinea_hundreds_new_species.htm (1200 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)

	Ethnologue: Papua New Guinea
		Western Province from the mouth of the Bamu River to 50 miles upriver.
		ENGLISH [ENG] 50,000 in Papua New Guinea (1987), 1.5% of the population; 322,000,000 in all countries (1995 WA).
		Western Province, Tabubil District, at the headwaters of the Fly and Palmer rivers.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Papu.html (6440 words)

	New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		New Guinea is well-known in the popular imagination for supposed ritual cannibalism that was apparently practiced by some (but far from all) ethnic groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Guinea (2419 words)

	New species discovered in isolated New Guinea jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During a 15-day expedition in December, the researchers found hundreds of rare birds, more than 20 new species of frogs, five kinds of previously unknown palms, four new breeds of butterflies and giant rhododendrons with white blossoms the size of bread plates — believed to be the largest on record.
		Among the hundreds of rare creatures found on the expedition to the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea are the six-wired bird of paradise, above, and the Golden-fronted bowerbird.
		One discovery was a new species of the honeyeater, the first new bird species discovered in New Guinea in more than 60 years.
	www.statesman.com /news/content/news/stories/world/02/7lostworld.html (672 words)

	Scientists discover dozens of new species in New Guinea
		New Guinea's forests are some of the most biodiverse in the world, but they are increasingly under threat from commercial logging.
		The new species of honeyeater, the first new bird discovered on the island of New Guinea since 1939, has a bright orange face-patch with a pendant wattle under each eye.
		Mammal expert Kris Helgen is seen holding a golden-mantled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) in New Guinea.
	news.mongabay.com /2006/0206-ci.html (877 words)

	New Guinea
		New Guinea and the Approach to the Philippines
		During this period a new army made its appearance in the Southeast Pacific and took over a share of the enormous operational, administrative, and logistic responsibilities which had been carried by Sixth Army alone.
		Fascinating, inspiring stories and details about American heroes of New Guinea who were recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	www.worldwar2history.info /New-Guinea (620 words)

	Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation
		The Anggi lakes are one of the areas foreigners are permitted to visit in western New Guinea, which was formerly called Irian Jaya and is now referred to as Papua province by the Indonesian government.
		In 1992 I visited the Baliem Valley, in the mountains near the Papua New Guinea border, which is much more popular among tourists, as many of the local Dani tribes people still dress in traditional costumes, with men wearing just a penis gourd and some topless women wearing grass skirts.
		I traveled around the big island of New Guinea by boat, going from the west coast to the north coast, where I saw miles of spectacular coastline of mountains and tropical forests lined by white sand beaches, with hardly a person in sight.
	www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2005/02/04/news/newguinea.html (2604 words)

	Lost World Found In New Guinea
		New Guinea's Foja Mountains were "as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth," said the co-leader of the expedition, CI's Bruce Beehler.
		An expedition led by Conservation International (CI) to one of the most isolated regions of western New Guinea has discovered what the multinational exploration team call a ''Lost World" of new species, giant flowers, and rare wildlife.
		The new species of honeyeater, the first new bird discovered in New Guinea since 1939, has a bright orange face-patch with a pendant wattle under each eye.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/20060107034528data_trunc_sys.shtml (803 words)

	New Species Found in Lost World of Indonesian New Guinea
		The new species of honeyeater has a bright orange face patch with a pendant wattle under each eye.
		The scientists found a new large mammal for Indonesia - the golden-mantled tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus pulcherrimus, formerly known from only a single mountain in the neighboring country of Papua New Guinea.
		During their month in the Foja mountains, the scientists found 20 new frog species, four new butterfly species and five forest palms previously unknown.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2006/2006-02-08-04.asp (730 words)

	Western New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western New Guinea is the Indonesian western half of the island of New Guinea and consists of two provinces, Papua and West Irian Jaya.
		In January 2006, 43 refugees in a traditional canoe landed on the coast of Australia with a banner stating the Indonesian military was carrying out a genocide in Papua.
		The border with Papua New Guinea mostly follows the 141st meridian, with one section defined by the Fly River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_New_Guinea (3545 words)

	::: Papua New Guinea Expedition :::
		Spain "relinquishes" its claim on New Guinea to Holland and England in the Treaty of Utrecht.
		The boundary between the Dutch-controlled western New Guinea and British-controlled southeastern New Guinea is established at 141ºE longitude, with the exception of a slight westward curve of the Fly River.
		Due to effects of global warming, it is determined that the Duke of York atoll is slowly sinking.Papua New Guinea authorities announce that the 1,000 inhabitants of the atoll must relocate.
	sio.ucsd.edu /png/expedition/timeline.cfm (946 words)

	ScienceDaily: Scientists Discover Dozens Of New Species In 'Lost World' Of Western New Guinea
		Indonesian New Guinea Inhabited For More Than Ten Thousand Years (May 20, 1998) -- Recent excavations in the interior of the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Irian Jaya (West Irian), have shown that people have lived there since the end of the Pleistocene epoch, in other words for at...
		New Monkey Discovered In Northeastern India (December 28, 2004) -- A species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in the remote northeastern region of India, according to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
		Fully revised and updated, this new edition of 'Aphid's on the World's Crops' is the only publication to provide non-specialist workers wherever they are in the world, with an identification guide...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/02/060207232338.htm (2082 words)

	New Guinea 'lost world' revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The December 2005 expedition by a team of US, Indonesian, and Australian scientists led by Conservation International (CI) found dozens of new species including frogs, butterflies, plants, and what is thought to be the first new bird from the island of New Guinea in more than 60 years.
		The new species of honeyeater, yet to be described, has a bright orange face-patch with a pendant wattle under each eye.
		In recent decades a high proportion of newly-described birds have been found in EBAs, so although the discovery of a new bird species by the expedition is remarkable, it is not entirely unexpected.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2006/02/new_guinea.html (509 words)

	1943-1944: NEW GUINEA
		From February to June 1943 the eastern New Guinea battle zone lapsed into a stalemate as the Allies and the Japanese reinforced and replaced earlier losses.
		Finschhafen was the strong point that guarded the western side of the sixty-mile-wide straits separating New Guinea and New Britain.
		At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, the decision was made to bypass Rabaul and concentrate MacArthur's forces on the neutralization of the Japanese on New Guinea as far west as Wewak.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943newguinea.php (1924 words)

	Forests of New Guinea - Long Beaked Echidna - World Wildlife Fund
		It was originally thought there was but one Zaglossus species in New Guinea but this species was recently split into three.
		It is found in the Vogelkop and Fak Fak mountains of western New Guinea.
		One of the island's largest surviving indigenous animals, the echidna has a highly protected status in PNG but it is still threatened by hunters (it is a highly prized game animal) and loss of habitat due to logging, mining and farming.
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/newguinea/spec_lbe.cfm (294 words)

	New Guinea treasure trove Environment - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It may still hold that there is nothing new under the sun, but up in the mountains and under the rainforest mists of western New Guinea, a research expedition found quite a few things new to science: a landscape and many plant and animal species that even local New Guineans had never seen.
		Honeyeaters are common birds in the western Pacific, but bright orange eye-wattles made this one unusual.
		The bird is the first new species found in New Guinea since 1939.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1076/is_3_48/ai_n16126242 (510 words)

	TIME.com: A Sacred Trust -- Jun. 16, 1958 -- Page 1
		As many a World War II G.I. can testify, Western New Guinea is an unappetizing piece of real estate—a land of tropical swamps, unexplored mountains and predominantly Stone Age inhabitants.
		Indonesian infiltrators were housed six or eight to a small cell." In all Netherlands New Guinea, added the report, no private newspapers are published, and such news as is distributed by the government is carefully censored.
		Fewer than half the 700,000 native inhabitants of Netherlands New Guinea live in areas "under administrative control." Even in one of the allegedly pacified zones—the Wissel Lakes region—the commission revealed that an uprising against the government and subsequent tribal warfare cost the lives of 200 Papuans and ten government troops in late 1956.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,863480,00.html (654 words)

	Online NewsHour: Scientists Discover 'Lost World' in New Guinea -- March 10, 2006
		An exhibit at New York's American Museum of Natural History explores the life and influence of Charles Darwin.
		In December, scientists traveled to the remote Foya Mountain range on the western half of New Guinea, which is part of Indonesia.
		BRUCE BEEHLER: Well, bowerbirds, in general, they live in Australia and New Guinea region, are sort of jay-sized, robin-sized birds that are unusual, first, because the males and females don't mate for life.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/jan-june06/lostworld_3-10.html (1585 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Science team finds 'lost world'
		The team recorded new butterflies, frogs, and a series of remarkable plants that included five new palms and a giant rhododendron flower.
		The researchers spent nearly a month in the locality, detailing the wildlife and plant life from the lower hills to near the summit of the Foja range, which reaches more than 2,000m in elevation.
		One of the team's most remarkable discoveries was a honeyeater bird with a bright orange patch on its face - the first new bird species to be sighted on the island of New Guinea in more than 60 years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4688000.stm (756 words)

	Wildlife: Paradise found in New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A team of U.S., Indonesian and Australian scientists found dozens of new species in a pristine wilderness in the misty Foja (pronounced foy-yah) Mountains of western New Guinea.
		The new bird, the orange-face honeyeater, is the first new bird discovered on the island of New Guinea since 1939.
		On the second day of the recent month-long expedition, scientists watched in amazement as a male Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise entered their field camp and performed a mating dance for a nearby female.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06043/654110.stm (697 words)

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