New Guinea Wallpapers

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5000 BC. The name Papua also refers to the island in whole or in part. (Refer to Papua (disambiguation) for clarification.) The island is divided politically along east-west lines, roughly into equal halves: The portions of the island of New Guinea (Irian in Bahasa Indonesia) located west of 141°E longitude (see map (http://www.papuaweb.org/goi/pp/peta-hr.gif)) are incorporated into Indonesia as the provinces: West Irian Jaya (Irian Jaya Barat)with Merauke as its capital Papua (formerly Irian Jaya)with the city of Jayapura as its capital. A proposal to split this into Papua Tengah (Central Papua) and Papua Timur (East Papua) has not been implemented. Papuans actively have supported an independence movement, the Organisasi Papua Merdeka or OPM, against Indonesia since 1962; the Indonesian authorities views this as a separatist and a terrorist movement whose members are guilty of high treason. The eastern part forms the primary part of the nation of Papua New Guinea, which has been an independent country since 1975. The people Populated by nearly a thousand different Papua Melanesian tribal groups since 45,000 BC, New Guinea is the home of the world's oldest independent societies and a staggering number of separate languages, the Papuan languages. The separation was not merely linguistic; warfare among societies was a factor in the evolution of the men's house: separate housing of groups of adult men, from the single-family houses of the women and children, for mutual protection against the other groups. Pig-based trade between the groups and pig-based feasts are a common theme with the other peoples of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Most societies practice agriculture, supplemented by hunting and gathering. The island's population is comprised of roughly three, indigenous ethnic groups: Melanesians, Papuans, and New Guineans. New Guinean nationals are predominantly black, Africanoid peoples with brown skin and wooly hair; with the Papuans, who are relatively short in stature, thought to be closely related to San bushmen, who migrated from southeast Africa in prehistoric times to populate southern India and, later, nearby Australia and adjacent islands, as well.

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