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In much of the terrain his expedition covered, they were the first Europeans ever to reach these regions. The maps and reports from this expedition were the first from this area of New Guinea. His second book, The Land of the New Guinea Pygmies was released on his return to England in 1913.
A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
Lost Land of the Volcano is a three-part nature documentary series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit which follows a scientific expedition to the island of New Guinea. The expedition team, which includes specialist zoologists , explorers and the BBC crew, travels to the extinct volcano of Mount Bosavi in central Papua New Guinea to ...
Other names for Parting Ways include the Parting Ways Archeological District and the Parting Ways New Guinea Settlement. [2] It was founded on 94 acres (380,000 m 2 ) by four former enslaved people who fought in the American Revolutionary War : Cato Howe, Prince Goodwin, Plato Turner, and Quamony Quash and their families.
Botanically, New Guinea is considered part of Malesia, a floristic region that extends from the Malay Peninsula across Indonesia to New Guinea and the East Melanesian Islands. The flora of New Guinea is a mixture of many tropical rainforest species with origins in Asia, together with typically Australasian flora.
Migration continued Southeast on the coastal route to the straits between Sunda and Sahul, the continental land mass of present-day Australia and New Guinea. The gaps on the Weber Line are up to 90 km wide, [ 78 ] so the migration to Australia and New Guinea would have required seafaring skills.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... The Milne Bay pygmy slender-toed gecko ... is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. [1 ...
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [2] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...