New Guinea
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New Guinea is the world's second-largest island, with an area of 785,753 km2. It has the third-largest remaining rainforest globally, and the highest plant biodiversity of any island.
Mount Bosavi
Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby, the most populous city on the island of New Guinea (Papua)
Yali tribesman in the Baliem Valley
Western New Guinea
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Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch and granted to Indonesia in 1962. Given the island
New Guinea
…in the African region of Guinea. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the nation of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua, South Papua, Southwest Papua, and West Papua. The…
Before the 1970s, the Korowai people of Papua were an uncontacted people.
The Nagarakertagama mentioned a region in the east called Wanin, present-day Onin Peninsula in the Fakfak Regency, West Papua
Fort Du Bus in 1828
Dutch expeditions in Netherlands New Guinea 1907–1915.