New Guinea
New Guinea is the second largest non-continental island in the world (the largest is Greenland), situated to the north of Australia.
It is has a north-south border, that divides the island into east and west divisions.
The east:
- Papua New Guinea - an independent state.
The west:
- Papua - the Indonesian half of the island, formerly Irian Jaya
This page was last edited at 13:12, on 15 January 2009 by Jani Patokallio. Based on work by Ian Sergeant, Wikitravel user(s) Episteme and Akubra and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.