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4 unusual facts about Southern Highlands


Huli people

The Huli are an indigenous people who live in the Southern Highlands districts of Tari, Koroba, Margaraima and Komo, of Papua New Guinea.

Kandep Rural LLG

Kandep shares land borders with Laiagam - Porgera, Wabag, and Wapenimanda District, with additional land borders between the Southern Highlands, the Western Highlands provinces, and the newly Provinces.

Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research

Research activities are carried out in several additional field sites across the country, including Alotau (Milne Bay), Karkar Island (Madang) and Hides (Southern Highlands).

Southern Highlands

Southern Highlands, Tanzania, Africa, a region of rich biodiversity at the southern tip of the East African Rift


Belanglo State Forest

The Belanglo State Forest is located south of Berrima in the Southern Highlands, three kilometres west of the Hume Highway between Sydney and Canberra.

Division of Hume

It extends from Cowra in the north to Wee Jasper in the south and parts of the Southern Highlands from Picton and Wilton in the east to Young and Cootamundra in the west.

Earless water rat

It is called kwypep by the Kalam tribe (Madang Province), possibly ogoyam in the Telefol language (in Sandaun Province) and momo by the Rofaifo (Southern Highlands Province), although that name is also used for other water rats, like the common Rakali.

Elderslie, New South Wales

The area now known as Elderslie was probably originally home to the Tharawal people, based in the Illawarra region, although the Western Sydney-based Darug people and the Southern Highlands-based Gandangara people were also known to have inhabited the greater Camden area.

Goulburn, New South Wales

With a history of water shortages, an 84km underground water supply pipeline was constructed to pump water from the Wingecarribee Reservoir in the Southern Highlands to Goulburn.

Mendi Muruks

Although the Team is originally from Mendi in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the team is currently based in Lae due to the current franchise owners.

St Mary's Mbeya Secondary School

It serves students from the Tanzania Southern Highlands, Dar Es Salaam, Morogoro, Arusha, and Iringa regions.


see also

Southern Highlands Express

The Southern Highlands Express was an Australian passenger train operating on the Main South line in New South Wales from Sydney to Goulburn.

Southern Highlands Province

As a region rich in energy resources, the Southern Highlands was at the centre of plans to construct a gas pipeline to pump natural gas to Queensland in north Australia.