Papua New Guinea Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Papua New Guinea
There is evidence of human settlement as long ago as 35,000 years in what is now Papua New Guinea. This comes from an archaeological site at Matenkupkum, just south ofNamatanaiinNew Irelandprovince. Other archaeological digs at several locations in New Ireland have discovered tools and food residue dating back 20,000 years. In more modern times, Papua New Guinea, the eastern half of the island ofNew Guinea(which is the second largest island in the world), was divided between Germany ('German New Guinea') and Great Britain ('British Papua') in 1884. The Dutch had West Papua, now theIndonesianterritory ofPapua. The southeast part of the island, also known as Papua, was owned by the UK but administered byAustralia, and thus a colony of a colony, until Australian federation in 1901, when it be
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