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Kokoda Trail / Kokoda Track Adventure
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General Information on Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, or PNG in short, is the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. The western half is the West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) Province of Indonesia. PNG lies south of the equator, about 150 kilometers north of Australia. The country is made up of the mainland which is part of New Guinea Island (the second largest island in the world after Greenland) and nearly 700 islands which are scattered off the mainland.
Until 1975, PNG was an Australian colony while its previous years saw occupation and settlement by the Dutch, British, German and Japanese. Today, PNG is a thriving democracy as a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and follows the Westminster system of government with a Prime Minister and Governor General as Head of State and representing the Queen of England.
PNG is one of the world’s most interesting tourist destinations owing to its history, diverse cultures and languages, pristine underwater world, dense tropical rainforests, unique and exotic plants, flowers, trees, birds and wildlife. PNG is truly “last frontier” territory and nowhere is this description more fitting than in its rugged interior with its dense tropical jungles, high intervening mountains, deep valleys and gorges and fast flowing rivers and a people whose lives have not been heavily impacted by civilization.
