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Geographic Locations > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
... > Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea

Preferred term

Papua New Guinea  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands, including New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and New Hanover in the Bismarck Archipelago; Bougainville and Buka in the northern Solomon Islands; the D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands; Woodlark (Murua) Island; and the Louisiade Archipelago. It became independent on September 16, 1975. Formerly, the southern part was the Australian Territory of Papua, and the northern part was the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea, administered by Australia. They were administratively merged in 1949 and named Papua and New Guinea, and renamed Papua New Guinea in 1971.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • New Guinea, East
  • New Guinea, Papua

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-H8ZN5LFH-2

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