New Guinea

The world's second-largest island: Papua New Guinea, highland tribes, and extraordinary biodiversity.

279 stories in this region.

Stories

The Abyss That Isn't a Trench
One Stove, Three Stones
Where the Bird's Body Begins
The Captain's Old Habits
Seven Years of Fever and Flag
The Throat of the Bird
Misool: Port of Kings
The Prayer That Became an Island
Three Thousand Feet Short
Sausapor: Where Turtles Nest and Empires Landed
Babo Airfield: The Last Stop Before the War
The Gamble Beneath Bintuni Bay
Where the Mangroves Stand Thirty Meters Tall
The Architect Bird and the Peninsula It Named
The Lake People's Living Palette
Where the Ancestors Still Watch
The People Who Sleep Over Fire
Broken at the River's Edge
Manokwari: Where Empires Came and Went
The Battle of Noemfoor: Three Airfields and a Forgotten Cost
Numfor: The Island That Spanish Galleons Glimpsed and War Transformed
Australia–Indonesia Border
Indonesia–Papua New Guinea Border
New Guinea Mangroves
South Papua
Boven-Digoel Concentration Camp
Booby Island Light
Booby Island (Queensland)
Jardine River
Green Hill Fort
Horn Island
Kaurareg
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Thursday Island
Quetta Memorial Precinct
Thursday Island Cemetery
Thursday Island Customs House
Thursday Island
Northern Peninsula Area Region
Somerset Graves Site
Cape York Telegraph Line
RMS Quetta
Asia (1818 ship)
Badu Island
Mabuiag Island
Torres Strait Islands
Yam Island
Wasur National Park
Gebar Island
Torres Strait
Holy Trinity Church, Saibai Island
Daru
All Saints Anglican Church, Darnley Island
Bramble Cay
MV Mamutu
Western Papua New Guinea
2016 Sunbird Aviation Britten-Norman Islander Crash
Great Papuan Plateau
Lake Kutubu
2018 Papua New Guinea Earthquake
Southern Highlands Province
Goaribari Island
Gulf of Papua
Strathallan Estate
Purari River
Diocese of Mendi
Mendi
Highlands (Papua New Guinea)
Mount Hagen
Kuk Swamp
Ukarumpa
Goroka
Mount Wilhelm
Kainantu
Battle of Kaiapit
Ramu Nickel Mine
1993 Finisterre Earthquakes
Republic of West Papua
Central Papua
2026 Smart Air Cessna 208 Crash
Tembagapura
Ngga Pulu
Puncak Jaya
2016 Alfa Indonesia DHC-4 Crash
Agats
Lorentz River
Asmat Regency
Asmat
Western New Guinea
Baliem River
Lorentz National Park
Mapenduma Hostage Crisis
Nduga Hostage Crisis
Puncak Trikora
New Guinea Highlands
1981 Irian Jaya Earthquake
Trigana Air Flight 267
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760D
2016 Indonesian Air Force C-130 Crash
Baliem Valley Campaign
Wamena