| I read that for a time in the 1920s more airfreight was lifted annually out of Papua New Guinea than in all the rest of the world put together. |
| The Commonwealth became the regional power, exercising colonial rule in Papua, then in New Guinea and in Nauru. |
| There are so many species unique to Australia that, along with New Guinea, Australia forms one of the world's greatest zoogeographic realms. |
| Jack saw action during the landing at Dove Bay in New Guinea and also on the Sepik River when his landing craft was hit by heavy enemy fire. |
| Deployed to New Guinea in 1944 she bombarded Japanese positions in the Admiralty Islands and took part in the landings at Sek Island. |
| Ecological anthropology has a long and distinguished history in Papua New Guinea. |
