Milne Bay Province, Oro Province, Central Province, National Capital District; parts of Morobe Province and Gulf Province
Cities
Port Moresby, Popondetta, Alotau
The Papuan Peninsula, also known as the Bird's Tail Peninsula,[1] is a large peninsula in Papua New Guinea, southeast of the city of Lae, that makes up the southeastern portion of the island of New Guinea. The peninsula is the easternmost extent of the New Guinea Highlands and consists largely of the Owen Stanley Range, with peaks such as Mount Victoria (4,038 m) and Mount Suckling (3,676 m). On the south coast is Port Moresby, the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea.
The island of New Guinea is often visualized as being in the shape of a bird, with the Bird's Head Peninsula being at the northwest end of the island, and the Bird's Tail Peninsula at the southeast end. For example, American soldiers in WWII visualized it specifically as a turkey, and referenced the anatomy of the bird as a shorthand for explaining where various actions and deployments occurred on the island.
^Palmer, Bill (2017-12-04). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 4. ISBN 9783110295252.
The PapuanPeninsula, also known as the Bird's Tail Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Papua New Guinea, southeast of the city of Lae, that makes up the...
gold were first found in 1852, in pottery from Redscar Bay on the PapuanPeninsula. Papua New Guinea's National Vision 2050 was adopted in 2009. This has...
mountainous center and coastal lowlands of the PapuanPeninsula. The mountains that run the length of the peninsula are the eastern extension of the mountainous...
Guinea–Trans-Fly Lowland PapuanPeninsula The WWF and Nature Conservancy identify several marine ecoregions in the seas bordering New Guinea: Papua Bismarck Sea Solomon...
Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the south-western coast of the PapuanPeninsula of the island of New Guinea. The city emerged...
located in the forked eastern end of the Papuanpeninsula, and at Buna, a village on the northeast coast of Papua about halfway between Huon Gulf and Milne...
Papuan frogmouth (Podargus papuensis) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae, found in the Aru Islands, New Guinea, and in Cape York Peninsula...
The Southeast Papuan or PapuanPeninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail"...
Bay Province to the southeast. The province is located within the PapuanPeninsula. Oro is the only province in which the Anglican Church is the major...
Papuan education, and encouraged Papuan nationalism. A small western elite developed with a growing political awareness attuned to the idea of Papuan...
West Papua (province), an Indonesian province comprising the Bird's Head Peninsula, Bomberai Peninsula, and adjacent islands Republic of West Papua, a purported...
Antarctic Peninsula HMS Papua (K588), a British frigate in service in the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1945 Papuan (disambiguation) West Papua (disambiguation) All...
of western New Guinea's Vogelkop Peninsula along the Central Range to the Huon Peninsula and PapuanPeninsula of Papua New Guinea, and on the D'Entrecasteaux...
northern Cape York Peninsula of Australia. It has also been introduced to the Goram Islands, Indonesia. E. p. polychloros, known as the Papuan eclectus, was...
The West Papuan languages are a proposed language family of about two dozen non-Austronesian languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai...
Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands. Papuan Tip linkage: consists of languages of the tip of the PapuanPeninsula. Central–Eastern Oceanic (CEOc) linkage:...
The Papuan rainbowfish (Melanotaenia papuae) is a species of rainbowfish in the Melanotaeniinae family. It is endemic to the PapuanPeninsula, around...
(Kakamadu or New Guinea wild lime) grows on the south coast of the PapuanPeninsula near Alotau (pictures). Citrus wakonai (also locally called kakamadu)...
monticola) or alpine munia, is a species of estrildid finch native to the PapuanPeninsula. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 20,000 to 50,000 km2...
Psittacella and Pezoporus illuminate the ecological radiation of Australo-Papuan parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution....
The Papuan epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium hallstromi, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around southern Papua New Guinea, between latitudes...
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