Lamari River
Lamari River is a river that originates in Kratke Range in the south central highlands of Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It flows into the Purari River basin. Population Awa speaking indigenous people populate Lamari river basin. Lamari River serves as demarkation line between the Kukukuku people and their neighbours to the north-west, the Fore people The Fore () people live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 20,000 Fore who are separated by the Wanevinti Mountains into the North Fore and South Fore regions. Their main form of s ....Werner H. StöckliKukukuku : Medical Patrol into one of the last restricted areas in the New Guinea HighlandsActa Tropica 25 (1968) References Rivers of Papua New Guinea Gulf of Papua {{PapuaNewGuinea-river-stub ...
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Purari River
Purari may refer to: * Purari River, Papua New Guinea *Purari language Purari (Namau) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Names Purari is also known as ''Koriki, Evorra, I'ai, Maipua,'' and ''Namau.'' "Namau" is a colonial term which means "deaf (lit.), inattentive, or stupid (Williams 1924: 4)." Today peo ...

Kratke Range
Kratke Range (german: Krätkegebirge) is a mountain range in Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Several rivers, including Aziana, Yaiga, Lamari and Ramu originate in the mountains. Many endemic birds live in the mountains. History In November 1889 Hugo Zöller became the first European to enter the Kratke Range from the former German colony Kaiser-Wilhelmsland in German New Guinea during an expedition to the Finisterre Range. He then called it the ''Krätkegebirge'', after the governor of German colony, (1845-1934). Kratke Range was only explored after the German colonial era at the beginning of the 1920s. Geography Kratke Range runs south of the Finisterre mountains on the other side of the river Markham and joins the Bismarck Range to the east. One of the peaks was called Zöllerberg after Hugo Zöller. The highest peak is the Mount Tabletop with 3.686 m height. The mountains are of volcanic origin and overgrown by tropical mountain rainforest. Above 3,000 m, al ...
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Eastern Highlands Province
Eastern Highlands is a highlands province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Goroka. The province covers an area of 11,157 km², and has a population of 579,825 (2011 census). The province shares a common administrative boundary with Madang Province to the north, Morobe Province to the east, Gulf Province to the south, and Simbu Province to the west. The province is the home of the Asaro mud mask that is displayed at shows and festivals within the province and in the country. The province is reachable by air, including Goroka Airport, and road transport, including the main Highlands Highway. Districts and LLGs Each province in Papua New Guinea has one or more districts, and each district has one or more Local Level Government (LLG) areas. For census purposes, the LLG areas are subdivided into wards and those into census units. Demography Eastern Highland Province had a population of 432,972 (PNG citizens) and 1,173 (non-citizens) in the 2000 Census. This is an ...
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of . At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, including nearly 60 years of Australian administration starting during World War I, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Elizabeth II as its queen. It also became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea, one of ...
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Awa Language (Papua New Guinea)
Awa is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i .... References {{authority control Kainantu–Goroka languages Languages of Eastern Highlands Province ...
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Kukukuku
The Angu or Änga people, also called Kukukuku (pronounced "cookah-cookah") are a small and previously violent and cannibal group speaking a number of related languagesEthnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth Edition, M. Paul Lewis, editor; and living mainly in the high, mountainous region of south-western Morobe, a province of Papua New Guinea. Even though they are a short people, often less than 5 foot, they were feared for their violent raids on more peaceful villages living in lower valleys. Despite the high altitude and cold climate of their homeland, the Änga only wore limited clothing, including grass skirts, with a piece similar to a sporran, and cloaks made from beaten bark, called ''mals''. An account of some of the first contact between the Angu and westerners is described vividly by J. K. McCarthy in his book ''Patrol into Yesterday: My New Guinea Years''. Four of the Änga languages are almost extinct, but the largest tribe, the Hamtai, are thriving, with ...
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Fore People
The Fore () people live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 20,000 Fore who are separated by the Wanevinti Mountains into the North Fore and South Fore regions. Their main form of subsistence is Slash-and-burn, slash-and-burn farming. The Fore language has three distinct dialects and is the southernmost member of the East Central Family, East New Guinea Highlands Stock, Trans–New Guinea languages, Trans–New Guinea phylum of Papuan languages. In the 1950s the Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, neurological disease Kuru (disease), kuru was discovered in the South Fore. The local tradition of ritual cannibalism of their dead had led to an epidemic, with approximately 1000 deaths from 1957 to 1960. History Until the 1950s, the Fore people had minimal direct contact with outsiders who were at the time colonizing Papua New Guinea. A small number of prospectors crossed through their territory in the 1930s and at ...
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Rivers Of Papua New Guinea
This is a list of rivers of Papua New Guinea. In alphabetical order New Britain *Aemoi River * Apmi River *Balima River (Papua New Guinea) * Johanna River (New Britain) *Warangoi River New Ireland * Aparam River *Lossuk River * Lumis River Madang Province The following are rivers in Madang Province for which various Madang language subgroups are named after. See also * List of rivers of Western New Guinea * List of rivers of Indonesia * Geography of Papua New Guinea References External links * * * {{Oceania topic, List of rivers of Rivers Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...