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New Guinea, locate just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last ice age. The name Papua has also been long-associated with the island (see History below). The western half of the island contains the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, while the eastern half forms the mainland of the independent country of Papua New Guinea.

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  • This island was once called Ilhas Dos Papuas, or "Island of the Fuzzy Hairs"
  • Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of this island
  • It's the largest island in the Malay Archipelago & the second largest in the world
  • A province of Indonesia & a former territory of Australia share this, the world's 2nd largest island
  • This island that's second in size only to Greenland has some of the world's largest gold & copper reserves
  • Chimbu & Enga are among the nearly 800 Papuan languages spoken on this "new" island
  • Jaya Peak, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, is the tallest peak on this island
  • 1/2 of this 2nd largest island in the world is an independent country; the other 1/2 belongs to Indonesia
  • In 1906 the territory of Papua was established on this island as a protectorate under Australian control
  • At 16,500 feet Puncak Jaya on this "new" island is the world's higest island peak
  • This second-largest island has an area of about 306,000 square miles & is shaped like a huge bird
  • On a list of the world's largest islands, it ranks second
  • The Papuan languages, spoken in the area centered on this island, number about 700
  • This large island of the W. Pacific may have been named for its resemblance to the coast of a W. African nation
  • Hurt & angry at also being called the Kukukuku, the Anga lash out from their home on this large island north of Australia
  • Divided between 2 countries, it's the largest island in the Pacific
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in the pilot's seat of a cockpit mockup.) I'm at the National Geographic Society's Explorers Hall in a Lockheed Electra like the one in which Amelia Earhart took off from this large island on her last flight
  • The western half of this large island is a province of Indonesia
  • Greenland is more than 2 1/2 times the size of this next largest island
  • This large island's 2 highest peaks lie in the Maoke Mountains on the Indonesian side

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