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Rabaraba
Rabaraba is a coastal village in Milne Bay Province on the southeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. It overlooks Goodenough Bay, and the Uga River flows into the bay to the south of the village. History In Papua mythology, Rabaraba was a feather with magical powers. The name means "far, far away". Rabaraba and the surrounding area was affected by Cyclone Guba in November 2007, which caused flooding, destroying about 30 houses and forcing over 100 people to evacuate their homes. Demographics Eight Dagan languages, classified as non-Austronesian, are spoken in the mountains of the region. The largest is the Gwedena language, which was spoken by about 2100 people in 1990. Economy Agriculture is predominant in the area, with Rabaraba being well irrigated. large alluvial fans along streams divert the water into ditches. The locals around Milne Bay are adept at woodcarving, with abstract designs of birds particularly common. Milne Bay Highway, connecting Rabaraba with Alotau Alota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabaraba Airport
Rabaraba is a coastal village in Milne Bay Province on the southeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. It overlooks Goodenough Bay, and the Uga River flows into the bay to the south of the village. History In Papua mythology, Rabaraba was a feather with magical powers. The name means "far, far away". Rabaraba and the surrounding area was affected by Cyclone Guba in November 2007, which caused flooding, destroying about 30 houses and forcing over 100 people to evacuate their homes. Demographics Eight Dagan languages, classified as non-Austronesian, are spoken in the mountains of the region. The largest is the Gwedena language, which was spoken by about 2100 people in 1990. Economy Agriculture is predominant in the area, with Rabaraba being well irrigated. large alluvial fans along streams divert the water into ditches. The locals around Milne Bay are adept at woodcarving, with abstract designs of birds particularly common. Milne Bay Highway, connecting Rabaraba with Alotau Alota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclone Guba
Severe Tropical Cyclone Guba was the most recent tropical cyclone to form in the Port Moresby area of responsibility. The storm resulted in 149 fatalities and severe damage across southeastern Papua New Guinea in November 2007. The firstly-named cyclone of the 2007–08 Australian region cyclone season, Guba formed on 13 November 2007 close to the island of New Guinea, and reached tropical cyclone intensity the next day by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre (TCWC) in Brisbane, with the TCWC in Port Moresby assigning the name Guba. It meandered in the northern Coral Sea for the next week, strengthening to a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone on 16 November. It posed a threat to the Australian Cape York Peninsula, but remained offshore, and finally dissipated on 20 November. Meteorological history On 12 November, a weak tropical low developed within the Solomon Sea, near the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain. During that day, the system's low level circulation cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogura, Papua New Guinea
Dogura is a mission station in Milne Bay Province, in the south-east of Papua New Guinea. It is located on the northern shore of Milne Bay. The town is located within Alotau Urban LLG. Its Cathedral of Ss Peter & Paul is the episcopal see of the Diocese of Dogura, in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. The cathedral was consecrated in 1939, and, at the time, was the largest building in the then Territory of Papua and Territory of New Guinea. The mission station complex also includes a hospital (St Barnabas's). Climate Dogura has a tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southe ... (Af) with heavy rainfall year-round. References Populated places in Milne Bay Province {{MilneBayProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alotau
Alotau is the capital of Milne Bay Province, in the south-east of Papua New Guinea. It is located on the northern shore of Milne Bay. The town is located within Alotau Urban LLG. Alotau is also the annual forum for Australian and Papua New Guinean ministers. Its Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alotau–Sideia. The town is located within the area in which the invading Japanese army suffered their first land defeat in the Pacific War in 1942, before the Kokoda Track battle. A memorial park at the old battle site commemorates the event. Alotau became the provincial capital in 1969, when it was shifted from Samarai. Transport There is a road from Ulumani to Alotau which passes the local Gurney Airport, named after squadron leader Charles Raymond Gurney of the Royal Australian Air Force, who was killed in the area in 1942. The airport is located 12 km from the town. Alotau is the gateway to the Milne Bay Prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milne Bay Highway
Milne may refer to: ;People with the surname Milne *Milne (surname) ;Places *Milne Bay, large bay in Milne Bay Province *Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea *Milne Inlet, Nunavut, Canada *Milne Land, large island in eastern Greenland *Milne Townsite, an abandoned subdivision of Temagami, Ontario *Milne (crater), a large lunar crater in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon ;Other uses *Battle of Milne Bay, battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II * HMS ''Milne'', the name of two ships of the Royal Navy *Milne model, a special-relativistic cosmological model proposed by Edward Arthur Milne See also *Miln Miln is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Barnaby Miln (born 1947), British social activist and former magistrate * George Crichton Miln (1850–1917), American Unitarian pastor and Shakespearean actor * James Miln (1819–18 ... * Milnes * Mylne {{Disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwedena Language
Umanakaina, or Gwedena, is a Papuan language of New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres .... It is a rather divergent member of the Dagan family. Bibliography ;Word lists *Anonymous. 1914. Vocabularies of languages spoken by the people of the Gwoiru mountains, and the Kanamara people on the main range and from Paiwa, Goodenough Bay, N. E. D. ''Papua Annual Report'' 1913–1914: 184–184. *Ray, Sidney H. 1938. The languages of the Eastern and South-Eastern Division of Papua. ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'' 68: 153–208. (Also includes word lists of Dima and other languages) References External links * Paradisec has a collection of materials from Tom DuttonTD1 that include Umanakaina language materials. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Papua New Guinea
For administrative purposes, Papua New Guinea is divided into administrative divisions called provinces. There are 22 provincial-level divisions, which include 20 provinces, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and the National Capital District of Port Moresby. In 2009, the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea created two additional provinces, that officially came into being on 17 May 2012."PNG’S new province Hela, Jiwaka declared" , ''The National'', 17 May 2012 They were Hela Province, which was split from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenough Bay
Goodenough may refer to: Places *Goodenough College, London, England *Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinean island *Cape Goodenough, Antarctica People *Goodenough baronets (created 1943) *Edmund Goodenough (1786–1845), English churchman *Erwin R. Goodenough (1893–1965), American academic *Florence Goodenough (1886–1959), American psychologist *Frederick Goodenough (1866–1934), English banker *Ian Goodenough (born 1975), Australian politician *James Graham Goodenough (1830–1875), Royal Navy officer *John B. Goodenough (born 1922), American physicist/chemist and Nobel laureate, known for developing the Li-ion rechargeable battery *Larry Goodenough (born 1953), Canadian ice hockey player *Samuel Goodenough (1743–1827), English scientist, Bishop of Carlisle *Ursula Goodenough (born 1943), American biologist *William Goodenough (1867–1945), Royal Navy admiral *Ward Goodenough (1919–2013), American anthropologist See also *Good Enough (other) *Godunov {{disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In Australia
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones. Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
