Papua New Guinea
93 mi wide torres strait from the.
Papua new guinea. In an extraordinary intervention 10 un special rapporteurs have written with serious concerns to the governments of papua new guinea australia china and canada as well as the chinese. Papua historically irian is the world s second largest island and with an area of 785 753 km 2 303 381 sq mi the largest island wholly or partly within the southern hemisphere and oceania located in melanesia in the southwestern pacific ocean it is separated by the 150 kilometre 81 nmi. The constitutional convention which prepared the draft constitution and australia the outgoing metropolitan power had thought that papua new guinea would not remain a monarchy. Kata papua diturunkan dari pepuah kata dari bahasa melayu yang menggambarkan rambut orang melanesia yang keriting dan new guinea nueva guinea adalah nama yang digulirkan oleh penjelajah dari imperium spanyol yƱigo ortiz de retez yang pada tahun 1545 mencatat kemiripan orang orang papua dibandingkan dengan orang orang yang pernah.
Papua new guinea stretches from just south of the equator to the torres strait which separates new guinea from cape york peninsula to the south the northernmost extension of australia. See places to visit things to do and other travel information here. Papua new guinea is a commonwealth realm with elizabeth ii as queen of papua new guinea.