"New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island separated by a shallow sea (Torres Strait) from the ...
rest of the Australian continent. It is the world´s second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, referred to as either Western New Guinea or West Papua, has been incorporated by Indonesia since 1963 and comprises the provinces of Papua and West Papua." - (en.wikipedia.org 19.10.2019)
- Latitude-5
- Longitude140
- Elevation0
