Thursday, October 19, 2006

Where in the World is PNG?

Many people are wanting to know more about PNG. The World Factbook tells you everything you wanted to know. The link is World Fact Book.

Click on any of the maps to enlarge and open in a new window.

Papua New Guinea is located north of Australia

The following map - gives you an idea of PNG. (Click on it to enlarge)


This is the main Island. The main airport is located at Port Moresby. You will notice an large island next to PNG - This is New Britain.




In the middle of the island is the New Tribes Base at Hoskins. This is only accessible by plane. This is where we will spend the first week of our trip. At the end of the week - we will fly to the northern tip of New Britain to a town called Rabal. We will then travel to the next Island - called New Ireland. (see below)

This is the island where the Luses & Kunzer's minister to the Patpatar people. (Click on the map to enlarge) We will get to this island by boat or by plane. It is undetermined at this point. If we fly - we travel to the tip of New Ireland to a town called Namatania. It is then a very long and rough drive to Bom where the Kunzer's and Luse's minister.