As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

As a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resident on a British colonial possession, he was effectively confined to New Guinea for several years.

The smallest vertebrate in the world is the New Guinea frog, Paedophryne amauensis.

Frogs range in size from the goliath frog ( Conraua goliath ) of West Africa to the long Paedophryne amauensis, first described in Papua New Guinea in 2012.

* The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea

* Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea

For some communities such as in Papua New Guinea and South America ( except Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia ), spiders are included in traditional foods.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

* Ailanthus integrifolia – New Guinea and Queensland, Australia

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

* ATP, IATA airport code of Aitape Airport in Papua New Guinea

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

After World War II, the sport experienced a small amount of growth in the Pacific region, particularly in Nauru, Papua New Guinea and later New Zealand.

In Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States there are many thousands of players.

Albinistic girl from Papua New Guinea

He has been honored in various other ways, in countries that include the Czech Republic, Papua New Guinea, Germany, and Kosovo.

* Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Palau, Vanuatu, Tonga, Papua New Guinea

Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK.

They include the Indigenous Australians, the Melanesians ( now divided into Austronesian-speaking populations and Papuans, and including the great genetic diversity of New Guinea ), the Semang people of the Malay peninsula, and indigenous first nation Fijians.

In addition to the production of nutmeg and mace, Banda maintained significant entrepot trade ; goods that moved through Banda included cloves from Ternate and Tidore in the north, bird of paradise feathers from the Aru Islands and western New Guinea, massoi bark for traditional medicines, and slaves.

Some of these textiles were then on-sold, ending up in Halmahera and New Guinea.

It is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea, and somewhat larger than the U. S. state of California.

* Balmoral, New South Wales ( Southern Highlands )

Commercial use of hydrofoils in the U. S. first appeared in 1961 when two commuter vessels were commissioned by Harry Gale Nye, Jr .' s North American Hydrofoils to service the route from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to the financial district of Lower Manhattan.

The New Guinea Highlands runs the length of New Guinea, and the highest areas receive snowfall-a rarity in the tropics.

Rural airstrip at Haia, Eastern Highlands ( Papua New Guinea ) | Eastern Highlands Province

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the shorter smallsword became an essential fashion accessory in European countries and the New World, though in some places such as the Scottish Highlands large swords as the basket-hilted broadsword were preferred, and most wealthy men and military officers carried one slung from a belt.

" Multi-disciplinary Evidence for the Origins of Agriculture from 6950 – 6440 Cal BP at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea.

Interestingly, the species in New Guinea are native to subalpine moist grasslands at around 3000 metres above sea level in the Central Highlands.

The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands: An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, Cultural Resources Survey Program Series No. 2, New York State Museum.

Category: Highlands, New York

* Castle Rock ( Garrison, New York ), a historic house in the Hudson Highlands

A consortium led by Chevron is producing and exporting oil from the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

The New York Adirondack Lakes, Catskills, Hudson Highlands, Rensselaer Plateau and parts of Long Island display the impact of nitric acid rain deposition, resulting in the killing of fish and many other aquatic species.

Kevin Smith was born August 2, 1970 in Highlands, New Jersey, the son of Grace ( née Schultz ), a homemaker, and Donald E. Smith ( 1936 – 2003 ), a postal worker.

New Yorkers Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas have traveled to the Scottish Highlands on a game-hunting vacation, only to get lost their first night out.

) New Research in Museum Studies, Vol. 6, Athlone Press, London / Atlantic Highlands, p. 186-193.

There are considerable variations in vocabulary and grammar in various parts of Papua New Guinea, with distinct dialects in the New Guinea Highlands, the north coast of Papua New Guinea ( Pidgin speakers from Finschhafen speak rather quickly and often have difficulty making themselves understood elsewhere ) and the New Guinea Islands.

* Hela Province, a new province being formed from 4 districts of Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea

Allamuchy Mountain and Jenny Jump Mountain are part of the New York – New Jersey Highlands, also known as the Reading Prong.