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Was deployed to Fifth Air Force in the Southwest Pacific in the fall of 1943 and flew reconnaissance missions over New Britain, New Guinea, and the Admiralty Islands from bases in New Guinea and Biak.
It moved to California in December 1941 and flew antisubmarine patrols off the west coast, then moved to the Southwest Pacific in the fall of 1943 and flew reconnaissance missions over New Britain, New Guinea, and the Admiralty Islands from bases in New Guinea and Biak.
Aglaia cinnamomea, a plant species found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata is a species of goby found on reefs or in sea grass beds in the western Pacific from New Caledonia to the Great Barrier Reef and around New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
According to this model of classification, Australoid peoples ranged throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, the Andaman Islands, the Indian subcontinent, as well as parts of the Middle East.
Other land bridges around the world have emerged and disappeared in the same way; approximately 14,000 years ago, mainland Australia was linked to both New Guinea and Tasmania, the British Isles formed an extension of continental Europe via the dry beds of the English Channel and North Sea, and the dry basin of the South China Sea linked Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland.
In April 2009, The Guardian described him as one of Papua New Guinea's "living national icons", along with Michael Somare and Mal Michael.
Copiula major, a frog species found in Indonesia and possibly Papua New Guinea
Calophyllum robustum, a flowering plant species found only in Papua New Guinea
Canarium acutifolium is a forest tree species, of the plant family Burseraceae, growing naturally in New Guinea, the Moluccas, Sulawesi, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and in lowland north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
Cenderawasih Bay, a large bay in northern Province of Papua, Indonesia
The two subspecies D. m. hypochrysis and D. m. hypoxantha are both known from the Baliem Valley in West Papua.
The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, in much of the Northern Hemisphere, south in mountains to South America (reaching furthest south in Jujuy Province, northwest Argentina), New Guinea and the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, but confined to climates with high humidity for most or all of the year (or, in cool climates, protected by snow cover in winter).
Fourteen of the short stories are set in Dutch East Borneo, two in British North Borneo, two in New Guinea, two in the South Seas (South China Sea, East China Sea and Southern Pacific Ocean) and one off the coast of the Unfederated Malay States.
Elsham leader Aloysius Renwarin reported Guterres already had 200 members consisting of Indonesian expatriates from Maluku, Timor and Sulawesi in December 2003 when Guterres confidently requested the local government to provide his organisation offices in Timika, Papua.
The Commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, Jerry Singirok – who reversed his support for the operation – ordered the detaining of all the mercenaries on their arrival, and forced the Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan to resign with Papua New Guinea coming close to a military coup.
Molecular analysis of bananas with this growth habit from Papua New Guinea has shown evidence of genetic input from M. acuminata and M. balbisiana, the parents of the section Musa cultivars.
Oceania: the Tjapukai in Australasia, the tribes of West Papua - the Adivasis, Chenchu and Kurumba of the Indian subcontinent, the Kwaio and Landalanga on Malaita in the south west Pacific, (commonly referred to as Negritos)
Papua New Guinea has several volcanoes, as it is situated along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
On 21 January 1623 had he prepared two ships for an expedition to islands near New Guinea, to map more of New Guinea, and to explore for "the South Land".
RAAF Base Horn Island was completed in 1941 and was used as a staging base for Allied aircraft moving between Australia and New Guinea.
Jamie Brazier made his debut for Papua New Guinea in an ICC Trophy warm-up match against Scotland at the Kaiteur Cricket Club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
She covered the Japanese landings in the East Indies and New Guinea from January–April 1942, and was damaged in the Eastern Solomons in August 1942.
Major TNI Johannes Abraham Dimara (9 October 1916 – 20 October 2000) was an Indonesian National Hero from Papua.
He reported extensively from Papua and Aceh in Indonesia, two provinces which have also had long running wars for separation from Indonesia.
John Otto Ondawame (born November 30, 1953 in Wanamum, Mimika Regency in West Papua) is an academic and activist of the West Papua liberation movement.
Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.
The Koteka of West Papua are seven major ethnicities of the highlands of West Papua with a common culture: the Lani, Mee, Amungme, Moni, Damal, Yali, and Nduga.
In 1909 Sir William Ingram introduced the Greater Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea apoda to the island in an attempt to save the species from overhunting for the plume trade in its native New Guinea.
On the return to France in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont brought back to France an imposing collection of animals and plants collected on the Falkland Islands, on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the archipelagos of the Pacific and New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia.
Only Leiopython albertisii (the white-lipped python) is currently recognised as a valid species, the other three reptiles being synonymised within species described earlier, ironically two of which were described by British entomologist William Sharp Macleay whose rival expedition on the Chevert, was also collecting specimens in southern Papua.
The tanks were used to lay aerial smoke screens in combat during the airdrop of the US Army's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers at Nadzab, New Guinea in 1943.
In April 2009, The Guardian described him as one of Papua New Guinea's "living national icons", along with politician Michael Somare and philosopher Bernard Narokobi.
At least six adult male and one female specimens are known, from Sattelberg and the Finisterre Range of the Huon Peninsula in north-eastern New Guinea.
The most widespread species, the Tawny Grassbird, ranges from the Philippines to southern New South Wales, whereas the Fly River Grassbird is restricted to swampland in the southern part of New Guinea.
On 26 April 2011, Queen Elizabeth II conferred the honour of Knighthood and invested him as Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George on his appointment as Governor-General of Papua New Guinea at Windsor Castle.
On 15 February 1945 PT-105 was transferred to MTB Squadron 18, under the command of Lt. Edward Macauley III, and saw action in New Guinea; at Manus Island in the Admiralties; and at Morotai in the Halmaheras.
It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, including China (Shanghai), Formosa, Sikkim, Assam, India, Burma, Sulawesi and New Guinea.
Maia language, a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
The species was first described by J. Hardenberg in 1941 in a synopsis of the Fishes of New Guinea based on the holotype specimen which was collected from Merauke on the southern coast of New Guinea.
Senda was an officer in the IJN, and was stationed on the island of Biak, near New Guinea.
In the South Pacific, the Adventist Church operates four tertiary colleges and universities (Avondale College in Australia, Fulton College in Fiji, and Pacific Adventist University and Sonoma Adventist College in Papua New Guinea), and more than 250 primary and secondary schools, with a total enrollment of about 35,000.
The school is one of the oldest in Papua New Guinea and is located next to St Joseph's Parish Church in the suburb of Boroko.
Kiki: Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime is the autobiography of Albert Maori Kiki, the Papua New Guinea pathologist and politician.
Canarium australianum (Brown Cudgeree), native to Australia and Papua New Guinea
It also carried reproductions of works by Papua New Guinean artists, including Timothy Akis and Mathias Kauage.
The first bird species found in New Guinea since 1939, the honeyeater was one of over twenty new species discovered by an international team of eleven scientists from Australia, Indonesia and the United States, led by an American ornithologist and Melanesia Conservation International vice-president Bruce Beehler.
The White-winged Triller (L. tricolor) of Australia and New Guinea was formerly included in this species but is now treated as a separate species.
During World War II, he served on the staff of the 340th Engineer General Service Regiment as it first built a section of the Alaska Highway in western Canada and later assisted MacArthur's drive in New Guinea and the Philippines.
Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl. 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific - Melanesian island of New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").
Papua New Guinea won the cup, retaining their title from 2009, by winning the round-robin tournament over Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Niue.
Asas language, a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Awaba Airport, an airport in Awaba, in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea
Kaltack has played club football in New Zealand with Waterside Karori and in Papua New Guinea with Hekari United.
A population existed in the Telefomin region of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, as recently as 1984.
Castanopsis acuminatissima ranges from southwestern China (Guizhou and Yunnan provinces) through Indochina (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh) and Malesia (Malaysia; the islands of Sulawesi, Java, Kalimantan, and Sumatra, in Indonesia; the islands of New Guinea (West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) and New Britain (Papua New Guinea)).
Dacrydium magnum, a conifer species found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
As people begin to learn about marketing in other parts of Papua New Guinea, many have gone into agriculture to supply local markets around the country, specifically Lae, Port Moresby, Madang and Rabaul.
:Ensete glaucum - widespread in Asia from India to Papua New Guinea
Pastor Manasa Kolivuso of the Every Home for Christ Church denied on 20 November that he or the church had authorized the two men connected with the church to travel to Papua New Guinea as missionaries.
Geijera salicifolia, a plant species found in Australia, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea
Gogodala language (ISO 639-3 code: ggw), a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea
In 1944, forces led by American general Douglas MacArthur launched a four-phase campaign from neighbouring Papua New Guinea to liberate Dutch New Guinea from the Japanese.
Lae players to have represented Papua New Guinea include Makali Aizue, Augustine Justine and John Okul.
It blends oral history and multimedia to describe the observations of missionaries among the Duna, Hewa and Enga of Papua New Guinea.
Found in Indonesia (Western New Guinea in the Wissel Lakes region) and Papua New Guinea (the provinces of Eastern Highlands, Central and Morobe, and Goodenough Island).
May refer to Mount Victory, Papua New Guinea, a volcano on the north east coast of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea.
The term muck diving was first used by Bob Halstead to describe diving off the beaches made up of black sand in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
New Hanover Island is a volcanic island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea
Paedophryne swiftorum was first discovered by a student on a 2008 Cornell University expedition to Papua New Guinea.
Pei language or Pai, a Sepik language spoken of Papua-New Guinea
Fossils have been found in Svalbard, British Columbia, the Russian Federation, and possibly Papua New Guinea.
Toona sureni, a tree in the mahogany family native from South Asia to Papua New Guinea
Robyn Gibbes (born 2 January 1957 in Goroka, Papua New Guinea) is an Australian actress, probably best known for her roles in Prisoner (as Sam Greenway) and Round the Twist (as Fay James).
Sabera metallica, a butterfly species found in Papua - New Guinea
In 1928 a group of Cairns-based investors founded the Sangara Sugar Estates, Ltd., and proposed the payment of capital worth £500,000 to promote sugar production in Papua New Guinea.
Schleinitz Range, a mountain range in north-central part of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Under Macair, SOLAIR became the smallest international airline in the world, serving the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, with a total of two Doves and two Beech Barons.
Teddy B. Taylor, U.S. diplomat, United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, accredited to Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
During a posthumous exhibition, the Tamworth Regional Gallery (Australia) identified Akis as one of Papua New Guinea's leading print and drawing artists, along with Mathias Kauage, John Man and Martin Morububuna.
A third of the region is protected, particularly in Indonesia's large Wasur National Park on the coast and its adjoining Tonda Wildlife Management Area across the border in Papua New Guinea.
With over twelve fights overseas in countries including, Zambia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji, Wally Carr got his first crack at a world title; his 99th fight, when he fought Korean Super-Middleweight, Chong-Pal Park in Seoul in 1984.
Papua New Guinea advanced to face New Zealand in a playoff game for a spot at the 2008 Olympics.