Kina was born on Baluan Island in the Admiralties, and for as long as I can remember this proud and charismatic man had been a player in many of the adventurous, larger-than-life, stories told...
My late father, John Walker, a long-term member of PNGAA, had two spells in PNG with the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). The first was in 1946 when he was appointed officer-in-charge of Jackson...
Samuel Warren Carey (father of Dr Harley Carey), was the geologist in charge of Oil Search Ltd in the Sepik district from 1934 to 1942. Many of the places he went to were in...
James Sinclair OBE, CSM (Commander of the Star of Melanesia), D Litt. (ANU), Fellow of The Explorers’ Club of New York was a well-known PNGAA member, a famed post-WWII Kiap, explorer, photographer and prolific...
The majestic Victoria Crowned Pigeon was named in honour of Queen Victoria for its delicate blue crown and its regal poise. The bird’s feather crest, a beautiful display of dark blue lace with unique...
When you get off the plane at the airport in Port Moresby, you’re met with a large sign welcoming you to the ‘land of the unexpected’. It’s a phrase used often in relation to...
Fred Pratt is a surveyor and engineer who lived and worked in PNG from 1961 to 2014. He worked at Ok Tedi over the period 1969–83, and again briefly in 2014, and pens the...
Soldier’s Grim Story of the Kokoda Trail Kokoda was arguably Australia’s most significant campaign of WWII. More Australians died in the seven months in 1942 of fighting in Papua, and the Japanese came closer...
