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Exploring New Guinea: A Quiz on Geography and Culture

Test your knowledge about New Guinea's geography, history, and culture with this engaging quiz.

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1 Stretching for hundreds of kilometres, these include lowland rainforests, extensive wetlands, savanna grasslands, and some of the largest expanses of ________ forest in the world.

2 It was formerly a territory governed by Australia, consisting of the Trust Territory of New Guinea (formerly ________) and the Territory of Papua.

3 What is the metropolitan population of New Guinea?

4 Where does New Guinea come from?

5 How many metres above sea level is New Guinea?

6 The province of ________ or West Papua is home to an estimated 44 uncontacted tribal groups.

7 Where is New Guinea?

8 The first European claim occurred in 1828, when the Netherlands formally claimed the western half of the island as ________.

9 ________-based trade between the groups and pig-based feasts are a common theme with the other peoples of southeast Asia and Oceania.

10 Highlands, consisting of Southern Highlands, ________, Western Highlands, Simbu and Eastern Highlands provinces.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Golden Monarch (male pictured) is found in New Guinea and New Ireland but not in the large island New Britain which lies between them.
  • the Channel-billed Cuckoo (pictured) of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia is the world's largest brood parasite.
  • the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea.
  • the Hooded Butcherbird of New Guinea mimics other birds such as the Rusty Pitohui, Spangled Drongo, and Helmeted Friarbird.
  • the longest river on the island of New Guinea, the Sepik (pictured), was named the Kaiserin Augusta by German explorers in 1884, after the German Empress of the day.
  • the Obscure Berrypecker of New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings.
  • the New Guinean mouse Pseudohydromys germani is one of two rodent species to have only two molars in each jaw.
  • the palm tree Ptychococcus lepidotus is used in the New Guinea highlands to make bows and arrows.
  • British explorer Christina Dodwell was initiated into manhood by the crocodile people of the New Guinea lowlands.
  • RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads.
  • Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers.
  • Melidectes is a genus of honeyeater birds endemic to the mountains of New Guinea and New Britain.
  • a call of the Edwards's Fig-parrot (pictured) of Northeastern New Guinea has been likened to "coins dropping on concrete".
  • botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia, served in the Canadian Army, became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea.
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