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New Guinea
New Guinea , island, c.342,000 sq mi (885,780 sq km), SW Pacific, N of Australia; the world's second largest island after Greenland. Politically it is divided into two sections: the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua in the west and the independent country of Papua New Guinea in the ea... Read more
Trobriand Islands
Trobriand Islands , small volcanic island group off SE New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. Kiriwana is the largest of the group's 22 islands. Yams, pearl shell, and trepang are the major products. The islands were made famous in the writings of anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski . ... Read more
Australasia
Australasia , islands of the South Pacific, including Australia , New Zealand , New Guinea , and adjacent islands. The term is sometimes used to include all of Oceania. ... Read more
Port Moresby
Port Moresby , town (1990 pop. 193,242), capital of Papua New Guinea, on New Guinea island and on the Gulf of Papua. Rubber, gold, and copra are exported. Port Moresby was founded by Capt. John Moresby, who landed there in 1873. The British occupied it in 1883. During World War II the chief Allied b... Read more
Coral Sea
Coral Sea southwest arm of the Pacific Ocean, between Australia, New Guinea, and Vanuatu. The Great Barrier Reef lies along its western edge. During World War II it was the scene of a major U.S. victory against the Japanese in 1942; the battle, fought by aircraft near the Louisiade Archipelago, che... Read more
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea , officially Republic of Equatorial Guinea, republic (2005 est. pop. 536,000), 10,830 sq mi (28,051 sq km), W central Africa. It includes the islands of Bioko (formerly Fernando Po), Annobón, Corisco, Elobey Grande, and Elobey Chico in the Gulf of Guinea, and Río Muni... Read more
Admiralty Islands
Admiralty Islands group of 40 volcanic islands, c.800 sq mi (2,070 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Bismarck Archipelago and part of Papua New Guinea. Lorengau, the chief port and administrative center of the group, is on Manus, the largest island. Copra, pearls, and marine shells are the principal pro... Read more
D'Entrecasteaux Islands
D'Entrecasteaux Islands , volcanic group, SW Pacific, SE of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. Comprising the Fergusson, Goodenough, and Normanby islands, the group, with a total land area of c.1,200 sq mi (3,110 sq km), is mountainous and has several extinct volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers. ... Read more
Guinea
Guinea gĬn´ē , officially Republic of Guinea, republic (2005 est. pop. 9,468,000), 94,925 sq mi (245,856 sq km), W Africa. It is bounded on the north by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali; on the east by the Côte d'Ivoire; on the south by Sierra Leone and Liberia; and on the wes... Read more
Torres Strait
Torres Strait , channel, c.95 mi (153 km) wide, between New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula of Australia. It connects the Arafura and Coral seas. The strait is shallow, with many reefs and islands, and is hazardous for navigation. It is named for Spanish explorer Luis Torres. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Western New Guinea"

Guinea
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...of Guinea lies on the western coast of Africa. With...dialects are also in use. Guinea is 85 percent Muslim...more than 100 years, Guinea was part of the former...British Commonwealth. Guinea was the only former colony...foster a climate in which new educational policies...
Papua New Guinea
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...heaviest in the island of New Guinea's western river basin region...REGIONS The island of New Guinea, the second-largest...half between Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province...line. The island of New Guinea was formed by the colliding...
New Guinea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition New Guinea , island, c.342,000...independent country of Papua New Guinea in the east. The island...Largely tropical, New Guinea has vast, rugged mountain...Dutch formally annexed the western half of the island, and...
Guinea-Bissau
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World ...and 18th centuries. Guinea-Bissau's remarkably...Representatives of Guinea-Bissau serve as members...Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, was founded...occasions generally require Western-or African-style...in Portuguese), the newer church on the airport...
New Guinea campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II New Guinea campaign. This was fought during...Australian mandated territory of New Guinea, and lastly in Dutch New Guinea (see Map 72). Of great aid to...situated on the island's south-western coastline. This gave them control...
Melanesians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Papuans LOCATION: Papua New Guinea, Indonesia (Irian Jaya...Hiri Motu (Papua New Guinea); Bislama (Vanuatu...includes the islands of New Guinea, Vanuatu (the former...down the middle. The western half of the island is...
Dani
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Indonesia (formerly Netherlands New Guinea, West New Guinea, Irian Barat). Location...adjacent drainage areas, live the Western Dani. This is generally a rugged...which belongs to the Trans-New Guinea Phylum. History and Cultural...
Melpa
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Hageners LOCATION: Papua New Guinea POPULATION: 60,000...visitors to the island of New Guinea see when they step off...in the highlands) New Guinea had been unknown to the...The Melpa live in the Western Highlands Province of...
Gebusi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...East Strickland River Plain, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Gebusi perceive selective...near the northern edge of New Guinea's large south central lowland...within the South-Central New Guinea Stock of the Trans-New Guinea...
Marind-anim
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...groups (subtribes) in New Guinea identify themselves vis...dramatically changed through Western contact, although many...the western half of New Guinea) from the Southern entrance...Family of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum of Papuan languages...

Dictionary entries related to "Western New Guinea"

Papua New Guinea
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Papua New Guinea A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea north of Australia, together with...south-west Pacific Ocean. The western half of the island of New Guinea forms the province of Irian Jaya...
New Guinea
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History New Guinea The world's second largest island after Greenland, New Guinea is separated from Australia...Torres Straits. In 1914 the western half formed part of the Dutch...independence as Papua New Guinea on 16 September 1975.
Udju Azul di Yonta
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) that liberated Guinea-Bissau was more successful...the late 1980s created new hardships. The film...inequality that characterizes Guinea-Bissau less than a...infatuation with things Western. Zé copies...
Indonesia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...are included parts of New Guinea (Irian Jaya) and Borneo...restoring credit with its Western capitalist backers, Suharto...part of the island of New Guinea, where a rebellion was...unification with PAPUA NEW GUINEA . New border arrangements...
country code
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet ...Estonia EG Egypt EH Western Sahara ER Eritrea ES...Greenland GM Gambia GN Guinea GP Guadeloupe GQ Equatorial Guinea GR Greece GS South...Guatemala GU Guam GW Guinea-Bissau GY Guyana...Mozambique NA Namibia NC New Caledonia NE Niger...
World Systems Theory, Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...of history demand a new politics, and with...Nigeria in 1960, Guinea-Bisseau in 1974...the Americas. But as Western modernization replaced Western colonialism in former...and early 1960s) that Western modernization meant...
Cannibalism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Many societies, both Western and non-Western, have...neurological disease kuru in the New Guinea highlands; the ongoing...accounts from some non-Western societies. Finding a...eyewitness accounts by Western experts, Arens expressed...
primitivism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...century art to refer to the use by Western artists of forms or imagery...seemed uncouth or savage to Western eyes, but it is now used as...structures of the interior of New Guinea or the south-western Congo to the complicated feudal...
Indonesian Revolution
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...forcing the Dutch to launch a new offensive which recaptured most...Indies, with the exception of western New Guinea, were transferred to the new state of Indonesia in 1949. Western New Guinea (now Irian Jaya) came under...
social anthropology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...to concentrate on non-Western and so-called primitive...sociology has tended to study Western societies, and this has...disciplines. Most importantly, Western sociologists, studying...x2013;1940) visited New Guinea. With few exceptions...

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Mines and monsters: A dialogue on development in Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...internal debate between Gogodala villagers, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, in which they explore the concept of development...Gogodala villages on the Aramia River, Western Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), I proposed a trip to the eight...
From Racing to Rugby: All Work and No Play for Gogodala Men of Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...analyse how Gogodala men in Western Province approach the...studies of sport in Papua New Guinea, a discourse has emerged...of sport in Papua New Guinea (PNG), even though...Middle Fly District of Western Province. Since then...
Dancing around development: crisis in Christian country in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Balimo Council Chambers in Western Province. 'This is Holy...Evangelical Church of Papua New Guinea (ECPNG), to 'come out...public convention of a new Gogodala Church called...Pioneers. When I arrived in Western Province for the first...
Essential oil: oil distilled from the paperbark tree is enriching the lives of villagers in Papua New Guinea's Western Province.
Magazine article from: Ecos; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; In a remote village in Papua New Guinea's Western Province, villagers are celebrating...David Lea was collecting seed in Western Province for the Australian Tree...oil, and selling it across Western Province. `There is a great...
Turtle's cargo: Western education in Melanesia - Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - has been an unmitigated failure.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; * The names of the women in this story have been changed. Western education in Melanesia -- Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu -- has been an unmitigated failure. It succeeds, says Nicholas Faraclas, only in transforming...
'Smoke in the hills, gunfire in the valley': war and peace in Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Magdaline Wilson lamenting the war in the Nebilyer Valley, Western Highlands, PNG) The film Black Harvest (1992), documents an outbreak of 'tribal fighting' in the Nebilyer Valley, Western Highlands of PNG, in the early 1990s. The film introduces...
'White Skins', 'Real People' and 'Chines' in some spatial transformations of the Western Province, PNG. (Papua New Guinea)
Magazine article from: Oceania; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...incorporate and control these new, externally derived sources...generate common spaces with these new agents, their technology and...Highlands and Lowlands in Papua New Guinea (Hays 1993; Weiner 1988...colonialism in present Papua New Guinea where the hegemonic and civilising...
Rethinking Western Motu Descent Groups.(Papua New Guinea)
Magazine article from: Oceania; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...inhabitants of the site of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Port...INTRODUCTION Papua New Guinea's capital city, Port...Melanesians of British New Guinea was devoted to a description...length in his article 'Western Motu Descent Groups...
Identification of Benincasa hispida (wax gourd) from the Kana archaeological site, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Magazine article from: Archaeology in Oceania; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...discovered at the Kana site in Papua New Guinea are identified as remains of Benincasa...agriculture in the highlands of Papua New Guinea have been based largely on archaeological...numerous archaeological sites in New Guinea (see Yen 1991 for a survey of Canarium...
WESTERN TECHNOLOGY IN ABORIGINAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/23/1989; 700+ words ; ...Service Change is meeting hope in Papua New Guinea, the rainforest country just north...500-mile-long island of New Guinea. Explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau...A variety of factors, including New Guinea's tormented terrain, have kept...