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unusual facts about Buka, Papua New Guinea



2000 New Ireland earthquakes

The 2000 New Ireland earthquakes were a series of large earthquakes that occurred off the coast of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea on November 16 and 17, 2000.

2009 New Ireland earthquake

The 2009 New Ireland earthquake was a 6.7 Mw earthquake that occurred on June 23, 2009 at 14:19 UTC (June 24, 2009 00:19:16 local time), 104 km south east of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Airlines PNG Flight 4684

Airlines PNG Flight 4684 was a passenger flight which crashed near Kokoda Airport, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea on 11 August 2009, killing all eleven passengers and two crew.

August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Kabakon was a Duke of York island, close to Neu-Lauenburg, in the Bismarck Archipelago, (now Papua New Guinea) and 28 miles from Herbertshöhe (today Kokopo), where the German New Guinea imperial administration was based at that time.

Bougainville Civil War

The Bougainville Civil War, also known as the Bougainville Conflict or simply as The Crisis, was an armed conflict fought between Papua New Guinea and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), who were fighting for independence.

Bramble Cay

It is also 55 km southeast of the mouth of the Fly River of Papua New Guinea, at the southeastern tip of Kiwai Island.

Chambri people

Chambri (previously spelled Tchambuli) are an ethnic group in the Chambri Lakes region in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea.

This community located near Chambri Lake in Papua New Guinea, there exists a community of three villages collectively known as the Chambri.

Coral reef protection

Inhabitants of Ahus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, have followed a generations-old practice of restricting fishing in six areas of their reef lagoon.

Duchateau Islands

The Duchateau Islands is an island group in the Coral Sea, belonging to Papua New Guinea, It lies to the east of Panarairai Island in the Louisiade Archipelago, and consists of three small low-lying islands.

Finschia

Across various parts of New Guinea and the surrounding region's islands, collectively they have known distributions in Papua New Guinea and West Papua, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, the Aru Islands, Palau and Vanautu.

Hansa Bay

Hansa Bay is a bay located on the north coast of Papua New Guinea, in Madang Province, between Madang and Wewak, north east of Bogia.

Hitro Okesene

He played at either Prop or Hooker and represented the New Zealand Kiwis on five occasions both on the 1994 tour of Australia and Papua New Guinea and at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.

Hooded carpetshark

The hooded carpetshark, Hemiscyllium strahani, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 5° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 153° E.

ICC EAP Cricket Trophy

Division One of the 2011 EAP Trophy is due to be held in Papua New Guinea in July, with the winner due to progress to the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, the final qualification tournament for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 due to be held in Sri Lanka.

Kerevat Airfield

Kerevat Airfield (prewar: Tavilo Plantation; variant: "Keravat") was an aerodrome located near Kerevat, East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea.

Kiunga Urban LLG

The Kiunga Urban LLG is a local level government area situated in the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.

Konoagil Rural LLG

The Konoagil Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Malagan

Malagan (also spelled malangan or malanggan) ceremonies are large, intricate traditional cultural events that take place in parts of New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea.

Max Tiri

Max Tiri is a Papua New Guinean rugby league player who represented his country in the 1995 World Cup.

Meadow Argus

The Meadow Argus can be found mainly on the Australian mainland, as well as in Tasmania, Kangaroo Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Tuvalu, Samoa and Cook Islands.

Michael Marum

Marum has also been involved with coaching the Papua New Guinea side, working with Adrian Lam and Stanley Gene at the 2008 World Cup and 2010 Four Nations.

Michael Ogio

Sir Michael Ogio, GCMG, CBE (born 7 July 1942) is the ninth and current Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.

Moorhen

Apart from the 1-3 extinctions in more recent times, another 1-4 species have gone extinct as a consequence of early human settlement: Hodgen's Waterhen (Gallinula hodgenorum) of New Zealand—which belongs in subgenus Tribonyx—and a species close to the Samoan Moorhen from Buka, Solomon Islands, which is almost certainly distinct from the Makira Moorhen as the latter cannot fly.

Murat Rural LLG

The Murat Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

MV True North

Each year, she does one circumnavigation of Australia offering exclusive, luxury expeditions in Papua New Guinea, Cape York, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, South Australia and, from 2010, Solomon Islands.

Nimamar Rural LLG

The Nimamar Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Ningerum Rural LLG

The Ningerum Rural LLG is a local level government area situated in the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.

Olsobip Rural LLG

The Olsobip Rural LLG is a local level government situated in the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.

Palmartona

It contains only one species, Palmartona catoxantha, which is found from Myanmar eastwards throughout Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bangka, Kalimantan, Sulawesi), the Philippines (Palawan) to Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea national cricket team

Since its beginnings cricket was picked up naturally in the Motuan areas of Papua New Guinea, most recognisably the village of Hanuabada.

Papuan epaulette shark

The Papuans epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium hallstromi, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around southern Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 7° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 146° E.

Paul Tiensten

He was later appointed Trade and Industry Minister on 12 November 2003 and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade between 2005 and 2007 under then Prime Minister Michael Somare.

Positional notation

The Telefol language, spoken in Papua New Guinea, is notable for possessing a base-27 numeral system.

Rhododendron beyerinckianum

Rhododendron beyerinckianum is a rhododendron species native to Indonesia and western Papua New Guinea, extending as far east as Mount Victoria and Mount Dayman, where it grows at altitudes of 1400-4000 meters.

Rugby union at the 1969 South Pacific Games

Rugby union at the 1969 South Pacific Games, currently known as the Pacific Games was hosted by Papua New Guinea at Port Moresby, the national capital.

Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove

The taxonomy of the Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove is disputed, and some authorities split it into two species: M. amboinensis (Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and M. phasianella (Brown Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba.

Solomon Archipelago

It includes the tropical ocean waters surrounding most of the Solomon Islands (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands, which are part of the Vanuatu marine ecoregion), and the waters surrounding the Bougainville, Buka, and Tabar Islands of Papua New Guinea.

Southeast Asian ovalocytosis

Because of this, the 35% incidence rate of SAO along the north coast of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea, where malaria in endemic, is a good example of natural selection.

Staffan Lindeberg

He is best known for the Kitava Study, a detailed examination of the diet, lifestyle and health of the indigenous population of Kitava, an island in the Trobriand Islands group of Papua New Guinea, carried out in the early 1990s.

Star Mountains Rural LLG

The Star Mountains Rural LLG is a local level government situated in the Star Mountains in the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.

Tanir Rural LLG

The Tanir Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Taraka,Papua New Guinea

In 2009 the Digicel foundation donated a Community Learning Centre for the West Taraka Dunda elementary school.

The Bear Club

There are eight Clan Leaders and each one is based on the eight species of wild bear - Giant Panda (Bai Bo), Sun Bear (Bruang), Brown Bear (Kodi), Asiatic Black Bear (Basindo), Polar Bear (Nanook), Sloth Bear (Aswail), Spectacled Bear (Buka) and Black Bear (Kinamon).

Transport in Papua New Guinea

The country has 10,940 km of waterways, and commercial port facilities at Port Moresby, Alotau, Oro Bay, Lae, Kimbe, Kieta Madang, Buka, Rabaul/Kokopo, Kiunga, Wewak and Vanimo.

Urapmin people

The Urapmin people are an ethnic group numbering about 375 people in the Telefomin District of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.

Waria River

The Waria River is a river in Oro Province and Morobe Province in south-eastern Papua New Guinea.


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