eastern border of the island of New Guinea in the northeast, stretching to the southeast corner to include Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. Consequently, the Melanesian sub-region features some of the most enduring-undiscovered landscapes of our modern times. In the heart of the Melanesian sub-region sits the world’s second largest island – New Guinea. The eastern portion of the island of New Guinea along with the islands of Bougainville, New Britain, and New Ireland describe the geographic-borders
325 words (333) Australia did not always want to grant Papua New Guinea (PNG) its independence. Starting from the end of World War II and into the1950s, the Australian colony of Papua and the United Nations (UN) Trust Territory of New Guinea, merged in 1949, and appeared to lie securely with Australia. The Minister for Territories, Paul Hasluck, in 1951, thought that self-government in PNG was still about a century off. The Australian public, had little concern for PNG. But there were many security
Papua New Guinea Nurses THE Papua New Guinea Nurses Association (PNGNA) wants the Departments of Labour and Employment and Health to shut down the Lorengau hospital. Their call is based on the report of a health inspection conducted by the Department of Labour and Employment in February this year which condemned the hospital. The February health inspection followed a safety inspection request by PNGNA in November last year. In a letter to the Acting Secretary, Occupational Health and Safety
Approximately 100 miles (160km) north of Australia, situates the second largest island in the south pacific called Papua New Guinea; occupying the eastern half of the rugged tropical island of New Guinea and some 700 offshore islands. With its comparative area size slightly larger than California, Papua New Guinea is about 287,595 miles in total area, of which 281,394 miles is land and 6,201 miles is water and accumulative of 3,201 miles of coastline. The central part of the island is composed of
Papua New Guinea International Marketing Project We will focus on the potential for future tourism industry investment opportunities in Papua New Guinea. Introduction Papua New Guinea, occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, North of Australia. The capital is Port Moresby. The Western half of New Guinea is a part of Indonesia. Papua New Guinea is one of the worlds most ethnically and naturally diverse
Papua New Guinea is located on the island of New Guinea in the south Pacific ocean. That island is the second largest island on earth after after Greenland. Papua New Guinea’s territory contains the entire eastern side of the island and shares it with West Papua which controls the western part of the island. New Guinea also controls hundreds of other islands around the island of New Guinea. Other then Australia to the South, Indonesia, and Singapore to the West, there are many smaller neighboring
A small nation with widespread brutality and domestic violence, Papua New Guinea, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, struggles with multiple developmental challenges. It is one of the poorest countries on the planet per capita, as well as one of the most culturally diverse with over 800 languages are spoken there (Campano). According to ReCom, a research and communication on foreign aid organization, it is ranked at 148 on the Human Development Index and most human well-being indicators show
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea, like many of its neighbors, has struggled with issues of governance issues since the country gained independence in 1975. The influx of foreign capital and currency that will result from the exploration of Papua New Guinea’s natural gas resources will certainly affect the country. The new financial resources provide an opportunity to improve infrastructure and create an avenue for the majority of the people of Papua New Guinea to join the formal economy
they be developed or developing there are certain similar predicaments that persists. One such predicament for the government and the people is unemployment. Papua New Guinea has its own fair share of this problem. Jobs are scarce in Papua New Guinea Kuimbakul (2011) elucidate that of the 50,000 school leavers each year there are only 10,000 new jobs, which means around 40,000 educated young people cannot find paid jobs which then results in other social problems. If you graduate and do not get a job
is what Olympic athletes hold up to show to the world. It is raised to unite a country. It is what is being cheered for when seen. I came across the Papua New Guinea Flag and decided to research it and reveal its flags meaning. New Guinea began to establish itself when immigrants came to a landscape full of obstacles. As the country known as New Guinea began to be filled by people, Ecology began to take its course by having mountains and uneven land. “There is considerable amount of evidence to demonstrate