Unlike its neighbor, the independent country of Papua New Guinea, West Papua's cultural history is poorly ... 12,000 years ...

Oceania is made up of Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and other islands. It is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north and east, the Southern Ocean to the south and the Indian Ocean ...

Not only Papua New Guinea doesn’t really matter for the ... For centuries the inhabitants of the old continent lived in confessional states, thinking that the alliance of throne and altar ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea, triggering but later cancelling a tsunami warning. The quake hit at a ...

The USGS issued a tsunami warning along the Papua New Guinea coastline after the temblor on Saturday morning local time.

A tsunami warning has been issued for Papua New Guinea after a strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake struck the Pacific island nation at a depth of six ...

A strong, 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the Solomon Sea on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. A ...

A tsunami warning was canceled for Papua New Guinea after a strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake was shallow, striking the Pacific island nation at a ...

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