West Papua Information Kit
Where is West Papua
North of Australia is Papua, or the German name New Guinea,
the fertile heart of an ancient land of kangaroos, echidna,
and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to its North, East and West.
Now with a political line drawn down the middle dividing the island
into two nations,
West Papua and Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the east.
After Standard Oil discovered West Papua (West New Guinea then Netherlands New Guinea) had the world's richest gold & copper deposits; the Axis leader Sukarno began demanding possession and that this half of the island be re-defined as part of Asia instead of the Pacific like PNG.
Please ask yourself
is Papua part of Asia or the Australian Pacific?
Are the people and cultres of Papua a part of the Australian Pacific
or of Asia?
The United Nations has held only one colonial possession (Oct/1962-May/1963),
the UNTEA holding of West New Guinea / West Papua
during which the U.N. received $200m.
The United Nations' map of the world's geographical areas today
includes ONLY ONE straight line highlighting a cruel colonization
of a Pacific peoples.
West Papua's
Carstensz Pyramid
is the highest mountain in continental Australia,
yet this limestone peak piercing the equatorial snowline is
also kept out of the media and public awareness for fear that
the world might ask which continent it is part of.
Left is a simple map showing the region's continental shelfs and the islands of Asia and continental Australia. For maps of West Papua please see the maps page.
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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