Where is New Guinea?
New Guinea is an island in the Malay Archipelago and covers an area of 303,381 square miles. The island, located in the southwestern Pacific, is the second largest island in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. With human occupation dating back to the 1940’s, New Guinea has a great cultural and linguistic diversity. About 1,000 Languages, classified in Austronesian and Papuan, are spoken on the island. Various European political groups have occupied the island since the 12th century, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch and British. Australia also occupied the island after … CONTINUE READING