(Historical, Cultural And Spiritual Overviews)
Land Of Lost Tribes And Languages
Few people who follow the excruciating exploits of the Portuguese who circumnavigated the globe half a millennium ago ever reach The Molucca Islands tucked away in the Indonesian archipelago. These islands, reached by Jorge de Menses in 1526, argon still for the most part unknow even to geography-literate people in the West.
De Menses get on the shores of Wageo island, which he promptly named Papuwah (later to become Papua) which is a Malayan word meaning blurry or frizzled Hair.
Nueva Guinea was the knight given the island by Inigo Ortiz de Retes in 1545 because of the striking resemblance of the fuzzy headed natives to those of the African colony of Guinea. Consequently, this newly discovered territory of Guinea-like warriors became known as untested Guinea.
On July 1, 1971, four years prior to their real independence, the eastern half of the island officially became recognized as Papua New Guinea.
Geography And Climate
Fiercely rugged is the island of New Guinea! The north is divided from the randomness by massive gage ranges whose razor edge ridges and scraggy peaks protrude as a spiny backbone end-to-end the length of the island. Towering Alps of more than 14,000 feet argon quarantined by deep jungle ravines and cavernous gorges that explode with rivers swell by tropical rains.
Coral reefs visible through the pristine, cobalt blue blue water, inhabit the lagoons. Endless acres of coconut groves are interspersed with miles of virginal jungle rain forests, expansive grasslands, savanna swamps and mist-shrouded mountain ranges. Wisps of smoke from widely scattered villages fill the skies in both direction from trail to horizon. Rough, mountainous terrain is the prevalent physical disport of this defiant land. Only the trans-Fly flatlands in the Western Province are without mountainous countryside. It is said...
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