I myself am from Papua New Guinea. I was born there and lived there for a few years. Thank you for making this video, it was interesting learning about my country’s history.
The Fly River. It gets in the way of a nice straight border. The British liked their nice straight lines as can be seen by the borders of Australian states but mother nature won't cooperate.
It's cool that you made this video because it's unusual to hear about that island. Fun fact: there are hundreds of separate languages and ethnic groups on the island!
+The Infohub I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) Yeah it's a very multi cultural island. I was debating whether to talk about but but decided against it as it felt too off topic. thanks for the cool fact though :D
Hundreds? More like thousands tho. The last time I checked Papua New Guinea is the most diverse linguistic country in the world. And that's not even counting the Indonesian part of the West Papua.
The diverse languages caused by the mountains. People hard to travel hence every villages have their own languages. Don't quote me on this though, because I don't remember where I got this glimpse of information.
The Dutch DID find Australia (Western coast) in the 1600s, the Spanish named the northern part after Torres (Torres Strait, between Queensland and Papua) and the French named many parts of the east coast (ever heard of La Perouse, near Sydney?). Before Europeans navigated to Australia, many other nations knew about Australia: the Chinese, the Bougis (from eastern Indonesia) etc. Many people of Polynesian (and therefore Papuan) descent must have travelled past Australia on their way to New Zealand. So, the history lesson about Australia being 'undiscovered until the British got there' is just another hoax.
@@suciretnowati8219 The original name Was PAPUA but when Indonesia took over they changed to IRIAN Mean IKUT INDONESIA ANTI NEDERLAND ( Joined Indonesian anti Nederland. so all of the information given is 100% correct according to History. Because I come from PAPUA which now part of Indonesia.
@@suciretnowati8219 Dutch did call IRIAN but the name given By Indonesia. Dutch used to call some places in PAPUA used the name of city in Nederland such as Jayapura was Hollandia Binnen .
That sounds nearly as confusing as the regional divisions in my homeland of the Caucasus mountains (specifically northern end). I would LOVE if you could do a video on that. You, sir, have earned my subcription with the quality work you put in for the videos I have seen so far. Cheers!
I Love this video, I can used to explain where I come from because is the most common question for me when I'm abroad. Because mostly People don't know where is PAPUA and why it,s part of Indonesia. Most People know is Indonesian People is like most Asian they don't know Papuan also Indonesian. Therefore, as Papuan I highly appreciate and thanks a lot for this video.
I'm from Indonesia and this video is very insightful! This video should be on every geography class in my country lol. And yes, at least in Indonesia it's pronounced PA-POO-A
Irian jaya is actually "Ikut republik indonesia,anti netherland" jaya, thats because when papua invading the land of papua,The local choose to be part of indonesia,and they want a freedom from papua,so the meaning of irian jaya is "join with indonesia,anti netherland"
"Pa" as in "padre" and "pua" as in "Kahlua" but instead of "lua" you use "pua" instead. Also the island of Tidore is spelled "Ti" as in "tea", "do" as in "don't" and "re" as in the musical scale. I'm Indonesian, hope that helps!
Javanese/Indonesians have been looting the homelands of islands unfortunately enough to be close enough for invasion; Aceh, Sumarta, Borneo, Celebes, Timor, Ambon, Papua, etc.
I pride myself on being someone who watches tons of videos like this, but this is one of the first that completely took me off guard and intrigued me. I had never wondered why Papua New Guinea had the prefix 'Papua'. I had always just taken it for face value as I taught myself the countries. Cheers!
The Indonesian side of the island once named Irian. Some sources may say that the name Irian is an acronym from "Ini Republik Indonesia Anti Netherland" (This is Republic of Indonesia that hates [anti] Netherlands) as an anti-colonial nation-uniting rethoric of Indonesia's First President. But now it is Papua and West Papua, as you said in the video. Btw, there are some political tensions between that part of the island with Indonesian government, related to separation, multinational corporation, racism, and blablabla. But whatever.
I am from #PapuaNewGuinea. We are #Melanesians. Our brothers from Papua Province and West Papua Province of Indonesia are also Melanesians. Maybe the Island of New Guinea was meant to be one nation. A people was divided by world politics. 😕
1:03 if I cant pronunce the first two letter i turnthe first letter into a silent one (so It sounds like Nigo instead of Ynigo) but somebody who speaks spanish probably could pronunce it better
You should discuss the Timor Island next which is owned by both Indonesia and East Timor (former Indonesian Island as well) I find this matter very interesting
East Timor was half Dutch, half Portuguese, the Dutch gave their part to Indonesia but Portugal don't. Then, Indonesia invaded East Timor and started a genocide. The international comunity was ok with it, but Portugal lobbied the EU and the UN for Timoran Independence. And that's it. Nowadays, Timorans still love Portugal and want to be part of ASEAN.
Rúben Luso Hahahaha. Nowadays, Timor Leste is occupied modernly by Australia. Australia is the only one reason why Timor Leste was separated from Indonesia. now, Australia wants reciprocation from Timor to control the teritory. Just FYI, although Timor leste was separated from Indonesia but they still need Indonesia so much, even their telecomunication, Airplane, basic needs, they've imported from Indonesia. Timor got about 14 years freedom from Indonesia but Their Human resources and Natural resources are still poor. They will always need indonesia.
Rúben Luso Hahahaha. Nowadays, Timor Leste is occupied modernly by Australia. Australia was one of the countries which wanted Timor Leste was separated from Indonesia. now, Australia wants reciprocation from Timor to control the teritory. Just FYI, although Timor leste was separated from Indonesia but they still need Indonesia so much, even their telecomunication, Airplane, basic needs, they've imported from Indonesia. Timor got about 14 years freedom from Indonesia but Their Human resources and Natural resources are still poor. They will always need indonesia.
@@rubenluso5961 LOL Enggak tahu diri! Actually Indonesia saves your country from civil war. More than 400K people killed after Portugis left your country, and our government saves hundreds thousand refugees from eastern Timor during civil war.
The reason for all the Guineas in Africa is because historically the region of West Africa was called Guinea. And the New Guinea thing is because the people look similar
Indonesia ... future topic please? I'd be curious to know not only its name origin, but also some info on how it got to have sooooo many pieces. kinda like how you explained the history of the pieces of Papua
you do know thatt arabs can be more white than europeons right? they're even considered white under the us law that states only white people may enter the us
How is it racist to say that the people from one place look like the people from another place? Is it not just expressing an opinion or an observation? Is everything racist now?
I think he means it is racist as the Spanish explorer did not use or maybe learn the names of the local instead just dump his observation and used it as the name. Which is kind of rude for the locals as they may be similar in appearance, but their cultures are not. Just take the example that the Chinese called the Germans 'British' because their appearance is similar to the British which the Germans may feel offended by it and this is maybe sort of like a racist remark. (Not trying to be offensive here, just trying to say an example.)
At the time, Guinea was a common word to name Black Africa. When they reached this Asian island populated with Black folks, they called it New-Guinea (meaning New-Africa). Other islands around had an Asian looking population (Malay), so seeing Blacks over there was weird in the eyes of the European navigators.
I mean as a european explorer he decided to just name the entire people group the same as those on the other side of the because they were both brown. But if you ever called that spanish explorer portugese im sure he would be extremly offended
+Name Explain Hahaha... I'm pretty sure if you know a little/learn about Dutch you might pronounce it correctly because how it pronounces was quite similar (indeed Dutch East Indies) :D But if I'm not mistaken, they use the name "Papo Ua" or "Not United" because New Guinea geographically was far away from Sultanate of Tidore's territory or not united with their land. They ruled the Bird's Head Peninsula and small islands near it btw.
Ah I know the tiniest amount of Dutch. Interesting. My sources said it got the name from the land not being United, but in sure their is validity in your information too :D yeah I was debating to talk about the surrounding islands or not as the video was mainly about just the island of New Guinea :)
For Indonesian name, assume each vowel construct a single syllable. Ti - do - re Ter - na - te Pa - pu - a Ma - sya - ra - kat Ke - ma - nu - si - (y)a - an We even simplified Papua New Guinea, into Papua Nugini.
This was very good. I'm from papua New guinea and most of what was in this video is correct except for the definition of papua part that is debatable. But all in all good video mate.
If it wasn't for the Dutch, Indonesia wouldn't be united, Timor and Papua wouldn't be split. Also, if guinea is in Africa, how did cuy get the name guinea pig? is guinea a native name or?
ABCantonese Even before the dutch ruled, Indonesia didnt exist before but there was Srivijaya and also Majapahit kingdom that had wide range from western papua (bird's head) until Malay Peninsula (Singapore and Brunai included).
In the past some parts of West Papua ruled by Tidore Sultanate, and Majapahit empire from Java. Thats why Indonesia claiming west Papua as part of Indonesia.
My Grandmother used to tell me that they're (Indo people, the dutch-mix locals) are going to be transferred to West Papua. Her father was dutch-sumbanese and her mother was arab-portuguese from Waikabubak. But then Indonesia disagree of the idea because the Dutch agree that all of it's former colony are the border of Indonesia, thus killing the plans and causing a large exodus of mixed people from Indonesia to anywhere else in the world. She decide to settle in Indonesia (because she lived far away from large city, thus there is no oppression or pressure to move away).
Your grandmother was being lied to, the Dutch never agreed to transfer West Papua or Indonesia to what you call Indonesia; the Dutch and United Nations agreed in 1949 to recognise the United States of Indonesia, of which Sukarno's Axis military forces or 'Republic' was one of the States within Java. The 'Republic' immediately began invading and threatening the surrounding States and in July 1950 Sukarno declared all of the United States of Indonesia was now part of his Republic. Its the same way India & Pakistan began colonising the Princely States a soon as they got independence. They use their military & police to enforce their idea of "unity" of their States.
@Names ExplainedWow that is interesting. Would you do a video about the Philippines I have friends from the Philippines and none of them know what their country was called before the Spanish took over I understand it's a lot of islands and stuff but it would be nice to know what it was before the Spanish took over.
When Indonesia got their independence, the decision came as well to make West-Guinea independent. The Dutch however didn't want to hand them over to the Regime of Java and make West-Guinea an independent country. When indonesia found out they tried to invade and failed. But then the UN and the USA pressured the Netherlands into handing it over. The Netherlands refused and was boycotted for 6 months. Terrible for a country relying on trade to survive. The Netherlands refused and handed it over to the UN with the note that if anyone was going to get the blood of genocide on their hands it was going to be the UN.
Beyond that your goal was not to explain the history of the island but just its name. Wasn't there a big struggle for independence? I feel you could have tapped slightly on the topic because I remember it being a big deal at one point, with dutch papua not wanting to be part of Indonesia. But I might not have remembered correctly.
I am a native West Papuan and proud to be Indonesian. Most West Papuans are proud to be Indonesian. Do you know what Indonesian people look like? Indonesia is a diverse country and it is not a 1 culture or a 1 religion country. Indonesia has over 17,000 islands, over 700 languages and has 6 official religions. Every island in Indonesia has its own culture, food, language, tribes, people etc. Melanesian people also not just in Papua but also in the Maluku islands which is in Indonesia. Yes we are all different, we all look different, every island in Indonesia is different, but we are all united into 1 called Indonesia. ''Bhinekka Tunggal Ika'' means ''Unity In Diversity''. You know nothing about West Papua & Indonesia, we are free already. People in the west are brainwashed and manipulated by the made up propaganda by the media. West Papua is part of Indonesia and it was part of The Dutch East Indies when the Dutch announced that the west half of the island of Papua was to join the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1828. When Indonesia had its independence from Japan in 1945 The Dutch promised to give back West Papua to Indonesia, but they broke the promise and instead made a puppet nation called ''West Papua'' and it wasn't until 1969 that finally The Dutch lost the war and handed West Papua back to the Republic of Indonesia. Some of you people don't realise that only a native Papuan can only be govenor of West Papua. West Papua is safe, don't believe in the media and the seperatists. Jokowi has helped developed West Papua. I can tell you now that Papua New Guinea is much more poor and has a much higher crime rate than West Papua. Also the best Indonesian athletes are from West Papua and and many West Papuans like Boaz Solossa, Rudolf Yanto Basna, Marinus Wanewar, Titus Bonai, Elie Aiboy, Oktovianus Maniani, Rivaldo Todd Ferre, Osvaldo Haay, Imanuel Wanggai all play for the Indonesia National football (soccer) team. 2 weeks ago Indonesia won the AFF U-22 Championship with 3 native Papuan players ( Marinus Wanewar, Rivaldo Todd Ferre & Osvaldo Haay). A Papuan club based in the city of Jayapura ''Persipura Jayapura'' play in the Indonesian league and are 3 time Indonesian league champions and are the most successful side in Indonesia.
@@dewa6777 Lol Yeah sure A Papuan named 'Dewa' is like some guy named Nguyen claiming to be Hispanic. Quit spreading lies on the internet You are not Papuan
About you spelling the 'Papua' word. I think the third is quite right. a little stress on 'pu' -- pa-PU-a, reduce the sound of 'w' before the 'a' which makes it sound like papuwa. I think so, anyway.
wait so its indonesia that owns the west side of that island and the east south part is a country it self with, but the indonesian part is named papua and the country papua new guinea has that in the name?
Two remarks. Firstly, you could have mentioned the deplorable situation in West Papua. I understand that you're trying not to be political, but there is a genocide currently under way there. You don't hear from it, because journalists aren't allowed to go there. This very video cannot be shown there, because you included the West Papuan flag, the flying of which gets people killed. Indonesia is a brutally repressive colonizer; enabled by America. It has no claim to the land, other than that it used to be owned by the same colonizer, the Netherlands. It is as though Australia were to invade New Zealand and use the fact that they both belonged to the British as ligitimacy for anexation (not that Indonesia needs such legitimacy, as they showed with East Timor). And oof... you circled "Old Guinea" wrong. Guinea-Bissau is the first Guinea. It was the first bit of Africa settled by the Portuguese, and they called it Guinea. Afterwards those greedy French took a bigger chunk next to it, which they creatively also called Guinea, but French, and the two became Portuguese and French Guinea respectively. The Portuguese were the last country to give up their colonies (a story of brutality in its own right, I myself found an unexploded remnant of the war while I was in that country), and by that time "French Guinea" had already become "Guinea". So to set the countries apart, "Portuguese Guinea" became "Guinea-Bissau" after the capital. I like to return the favor by calling the French part "Guinea-Conakry", for clarity.
I will assume that you're an Australian. Why Australian are so insistent that there is Genocide in West Papua? I believe they're not killing the citizen, just the separatist. Are you trying to repeat the history by intervening in Indonesia as you guys do back then in East Timor?
Christian Djami No, I am not Australian. I am glad however that Australia intervened in East Timor. I'm not sure if it would work well in West Papua, because the occupation there has resulted in a massive immigration from elsewhere in Indonesia, so the immigrant population is now larger than the native Papuan population. The reason "separatists" exist is the repression by the Indonesian regime. It's very similar to the Dutch occupation of Indonesia, it's very cynical that Indonesia repeats it in West Papua (as well as East Timor and the South Moluccans).
baasmans Well, Papuans are emigrating to Java as well if you're talking about population shift. People move anywhere and it's guaranteed by the constitution. As long as you're Indonesian you could lived anywhere in Indonesia. I personally don't like the idea of Immigration since it causing a lot of problem (which are being solved by our governments). The idea of Immigration are to 'equalize' Indonesian development since the government couldn't build something if there is no population viable to maintain the structure. I'm myself as Sumbanese feels the impact of Immigrations to the social life. The availibility of Javanese food are so welcomed but there is social and cultural things that I don't like. Thereis debates about Papuan Independenci in our academic circles as our constitution says 'independence are the right of every nations (kemerdekaan ialah hak segala bangsa)' thus the Papuans have the right to be independence. Still even it's contradict to our constitution, as soon as Papua gains independence, the rest of Indonesia would break away as well.
Christian Djami So in essence, we are in agreement. I agree that there is no easy solution, and straight up independence is not a first option, but you cannot deny that the Papuan freedom movement has a legitimat grievance. The solution starts by admitting that the occupation started out as a crime; something that should not have happened, and that the current situation is repressive and horrible. It has only been since May of last year that international journalists have been allowed to enter (you'd think the Indonesian government has something to hide?), perhaps the story can finally be told as it is.
baasmans That's where I disagree with you. It's not an occupation and there is no actual reason for Papuans to be independent, they're not oppressed, and Indonesian are starting to build Papua. Also the gas price are another sign that people in Java cared about Papuans by giving them subsidies. Papuans independent meaning that they're even more endangered with American's exploitation. The only options that I agree are to divide Papua into more province so the local governments could cover more place instead of centered on the capital. Also special regions status could be granted with more decentralized autonomy that will suit Papuans needs, just like Aceh.
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It was also referred to Kaiser-Wilhelmland as well
Pa poo a Sorry for any Papua guy but in Indonesia we pronounce word Papua is Pa (like papa) poo a (like air) 1. Papua 2. Irian Jaya (name for whole papua island). Jaya = Glory (I do apologize for My bad english)
Let's not forget Antarctica while we are at it. But then we are starting to cross the distinction between island and continent, because you can argue Eurasia-Africa, being all connected and bound by sea, forms the biggest 'island' in the world.
It's funny, from what I've seen, people from Indonesia and PNG seem to pronounce it differently. In Australia we seem to pronounce it differently yet again - we say it the same way you'd say papa.
umm actually we never lost any "Invasion" anything in west papua. cuz we never actually invaded it. We only sent some parachute battalion during the negotiation and put the Flag of Indonesia (Red-White) on papuan lands. We actually have planned the biggest amphibious operation in Indonesia if the negotation didnt went "well" for Indonesia.
You are so very wrong about "much worse." Since the annexation in 1962 Kopassus has slaughtered over 500,000 West Papuans. Australia officially turned its back in 2006 when they signed the Lombok Treaty. It's all about maintaining Freeport and the Timorese Sunrise gas fields. Meanwhile the Melanesians are facing genocide at the hands of the Javanese colonialists.
Byron Sigrano Do you think it would ever be possible for the island to be a united sovereign nation state? Is there any sense of common identity on the island? You appear quite knowledgeable about the situation there. Do you live there?
dalriada842 I don't think unificaction is the correct path for West Papua or even viable at this point. Although they share the common link of their Melanesian heritage, there has been too much water under the bridge historically for any such arrangement. No, I don't live there.
Hi I'm a Papua new Guinean I've been reading through all your Comments some good and some bad well you all have your own point of views about my country that's fine but before you all talk and start arguing about whoever is right and whose wrong well I bat you all should have a visit yourselves so you would know much about my country, by the way we ain't from Africa nether from any other country we are unique in our own diverse culture, yes their are a few of our tribe that are aggressive which are the new guinea but never the Papuan if only you get to the naves, any way before you all start confusing yourselves like I said do a visit, but if you don't much better live my home out of this shit.
Yñigo : i-NYI-go. Ortiz : Ohr-teeth (Latin-American pronunciation would render it "Ohr-TEES") De: deh Retez: Reh-TEHTH, LA Reh-TEHS. It is not so difficult once you break it down.
Thanks for this video. I lived in PNG 2 years, back in 1981 and 1982 - living in Madang, the capital of Madang Province, and also out in the bush, along the Ramu River among the Azau people. The Highlands are awesome - the mountains are beautiful, and the villages at 3,000, and up to Mt. Hagen, at 5,502 feet (1.728 meters elevation), it eternal Springtime. However, I found myself in the swamplands along the Ramu. :-( It's a land of black sand beaches, as well as white sand beaches, and awesome views of volcanoes rising out of the ocean (Karkar Island, you can't miss it, and all of the steam rising from it's cone just off to the north of Madang. Following the coral road along the north shore are Manam Island, which like KarKar Island has erupted - and yes, people do live on these islands! The people were very friendly (I was "adopted" into the "pukpuk" clan (sea crocodile clan) of the Azau. If you ever get the chance: do go!! I hope to visit again! But, I lived 9 years in Argentina, another wonderful adventure!
I myself am from Papua New Guinea. I was born there and lived there for a few years. Thank you for making this video, it was interesting learning about my country’s history.
@@pineablesoda Papuans are ethnically Melanesian but ok
Are you a cannibal?
where do you live now?
Poor Fred.
+Political Junkie News If Fed ever makes an appearance in another channel he'll get an actual name... maybe.
papa new gunie
And that guy fed went on to create fedex
My name is Yñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die
Anjay
"Tidore" isn't pronunced "tide-ore" but "tee-door-ay"
It's funny to pronounce foreign words and names wrong. I always do it on purpose.
weltarchiv4 Yeah. Just don't expect people to understand you
PNG is a very unique in the Worlds history.
PNG land of the Unexpected.
How did it get that bump in he middle of the border?
River
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The Fly River. It gets in the way of a nice straight border. The British liked their nice straight lines as can be seen by the borders of Australian states but mother nature won't cooperate.
Look at Canada-US border... Straight line along the 49th parallel for 1000s of km.
Parking lot accident.
It's cool that you made this video because it's unusual to hear about that island. Fun fact: there are hundreds of separate languages and ethnic groups on the island!
+The Infohub I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) Yeah it's a very multi cultural island. I was debating whether to talk about but but decided against it as it felt too off topic. thanks for the cool fact though :D
Yep I think it's cool that you stick to the topic of names.
Hundreds? More like thousands tho.
The last time I checked Papua New Guinea is the most diverse linguistic country in the world. And that's not even counting the Indonesian part of the West Papua.
Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with at least 820 different languages spoken.
The diverse languages caused by the mountains. People hard to travel hence every villages have their own languages.
Don't quote me on this though, because I don't remember where I got this glimpse of information.
Great video. I've been wondering about the island's history for a long time. Glad I found your channel.
Thank you. I'm glad you found my channel too :)
Its surprising that the Europeans found New Giunea, yet didn't discover Australia for many years later
Ikr, they should have just used google maps, it's right their lol.
they're looking for spice in molluca, near papua
The Dutch DID find Australia (Western coast) in the 1600s, the Spanish named the northern part after Torres (Torres Strait, between Queensland and Papua) and the French named many parts of the east coast (ever heard of La Perouse, near Sydney?). Before Europeans navigated to Australia, many other nations knew about Australia: the Chinese, the Bougis (from eastern Indonesia) etc. Many people of Polynesian (and therefore Papuan) descent must have travelled past Australia on their way to New Zealand. So, the history lesson about Australia being 'undiscovered until the British got there' is just another hoax.
@@federicamcleod3796 it was called New Holland
Back then, sailors could smell golds from distant places.
Yñigo is pronounced Iñigo or ee-nhe-go, easy to pronounce actually
Dante Reynoso you are right
Was his father killed and should someone be prepare to die?
Dante Reynoso read: Inyigo
Hello. My name is Yñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Dante Reynoso YEP... I WAS GETTING SO FRUSTRATED SINCE IT'S A COMMON NAME HERE IN THE PH...
add : some indonesian called it ''irian jaya'' . and german new guinea is renamed kaiser wilhelmland
And we call the island "Papua Island". Not New Guinea
Irian is an old term, it also used by the dutch during 1945 -1963
Yeah that's it. Irian Jaya!
@@suciretnowati8219 The original name Was PAPUA but when Indonesia took over they changed to IRIAN Mean IKUT INDONESIA ANTI NEDERLAND ( Joined Indonesian anti Nederland. so all of the information given is 100% correct according to History. Because I come from PAPUA which now part of Indonesia.
@@suciretnowati8219 Dutch did call IRIAN but the name given By Indonesia. Dutch used to call some places in PAPUA used the name of city in Nederland such as Jayapura was Hollandia Binnen .
There's also another name used in Indonesia. Irian, that means "rising sun". We used that name up to 2008.
Same in Papua New Guinea...we used to refer to West Papua as Irian Jaya/West
Is it because it's east of Indonesia?
Isn't Irian mean "Ikut Republik Indonesia Anti Netherland"?
@@noviantoekobudiman7633 that's a made up acronym for propaganda purpose.
@@risannd thanks for the info
Thanks! This had all the information I was looking for about Papua New Guinea. I'll have to check out Your other videos.
That sounds nearly as confusing as the regional divisions in my homeland of the Caucasus mountains (specifically northern end). I would LOVE if you could do a video on that. You, sir, have earned my subcription with the quality work you put in for the videos I have seen so far. Cheers!
That's not how you spell border.
Tobias Ommer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Name Explain that's not how you pronounce Queensland
Queens-land
Dragon01 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rubbish, I grew up there and that is how you say it.
Name Explain
No damn it. You need to learn how to spell. Ain't you Englishmen supposed to be smart?
Thank you for doing a very informative video about my island! Greatly appreciated, keep up the good work :)
"My name is Inigo Montoya, and I am looking for the 6 fingered man"
The answer, can you see "the 6th finger?" If so, you know where to find us.
I liked the "The Great Gatsby" reference when referring to the 1920's.
AltoVsTenorSax19 Thank you old sport!
This is really helpful. Thanks for making it mate! 🙂
I Love this video, I can used to explain where I come from because is the most common question for me when I'm abroad. Because mostly People don't know where is PAPUA and why it,s part of Indonesia. Most People know is Indonesian People is like most Asian they don't know Papuan also Indonesian. Therefore, as Papuan I highly appreciate and thanks a lot for this video.
Happy thank you more please
There's more on the way!
I'm from Indonesia and this video is very insightful! This video should be on every geography class in my country lol. And yes, at least in Indonesia it's pronounced PA-POO-A
All PApua should be united into one country,since Indonesia invaded the Western half.Western Papua should unite to Eastern Papua as one country .
umm could you explain it's third name, irian jaya please?
We papuan no longer called our land as irian and no more ever. let it be papua.
Irian jaya is actually "Ikut republik indonesia,anti netherland" jaya, thats because when papua invading the land of papua,The local choose to be part of indonesia,and they want a freedom from papua,so the meaning of irian jaya is "join with indonesia,anti netherland"
"Pa" as in "padre" and "pua" as in "Kahlua" but instead of "lua" you use "pua" instead.
Also the island of Tidore is spelled "Ti" as in "tea", "do" as in "don't" and "re" as in the musical scale. I'm Indonesian, hope that helps!
This is only a part of German New Guinea. It's called Kaiser-Wilhelmsland.
I'm glad I found this channel!
Make a video why Indonesia called "The spices land" by Dutch.
Because the Dutch used them for trading spices.
because indonesia is known by its spices back then
Shafwan Dito Cause Maluku Have a lot Spices And That's why they War with Indonesia cause the Spices in maluku was alot
EraTaco GameR huh... No wonder why many Indonesian still pissed from the Dutch because they steal their resources.
Javanese/Indonesians have been looting the homelands of islands unfortunately enough to be close enough for invasion; Aceh, Sumarta, Borneo, Celebes, Timor, Ambon, Papua, etc.
I pride myself on being someone who watches tons of videos like this, but this is one of the first that completely took me off guard and intrigued me. I had never wondered why Papua New Guinea had the prefix 'Papua'. I had always just taken it for face value as I taught myself the countries. Cheers!
love the channel, glad I found you
The most unintentionally romantic comment I've had :P thanks!
The Indonesian side of the island once named Irian. Some sources may say that the name Irian is an acronym from "Ini Republik Indonesia Anti Netherland" (This is Republic of Indonesia that hates [anti] Netherlands) as an anti-colonial nation-uniting rethoric of Indonesia's First President. But now it is Papua and West Papua, as you said in the video.
Btw, there are some political tensions between that part of the island with Indonesian government, related to separation, multinational corporation, racism, and blablabla. But whatever.
I am from #PapuaNewGuinea. We are #Melanesians. Our brothers from Papua Province and West Papua Province of Indonesia are also Melanesians. Maybe the Island of New Guinea was meant to be one nation. A people was divided by world politics. 😕
1:03 if I cant pronunce the first two letter i turnthe first letter into a silent one (so It sounds like Nigo instead of Ynigo) but somebody who speaks spanish probably could pronunce it better
You should discuss the Timor Island next which is owned by both Indonesia and East Timor (former Indonesian Island as well) I find this matter very interesting
East Timor was half Dutch, half Portuguese, the Dutch gave their part to Indonesia but Portugal don't. Then, Indonesia invaded East Timor and started a genocide. The international comunity was ok with it, but Portugal lobbied the EU and the UN for Timoran Independence.
And that's it.
Nowadays, Timorans still love Portugal and want to be part of ASEAN.
Rúben Luso Hahahaha. Nowadays, Timor Leste is occupied modernly by Australia. Australia is the only one reason why Timor Leste was separated from Indonesia. now, Australia wants reciprocation from Timor to control the teritory. Just FYI, although Timor leste was separated from Indonesia but they still need Indonesia so much, even their telecomunication, Airplane, basic needs, they've imported from Indonesia. Timor got about 14 years freedom from Indonesia but Their Human resources and Natural resources are still poor. They will always need indonesia.
Rúben Luso Hahahaha. Nowadays, Timor Leste is occupied modernly by Australia. Australia was one of the countries which wanted Timor Leste was separated from Indonesia. now, Australia wants reciprocation from Timor to control the teritory. Just FYI, although Timor leste was separated from Indonesia but they still need Indonesia so much, even their telecomunication, Airplane, basic needs, they've imported from Indonesia. Timor got about 14 years freedom from Indonesia but Their Human resources and Natural resources are still poor. They will always need indonesia.
You are still assassins.
@@rubenluso5961 LOL Enggak tahu diri!
Actually Indonesia saves your country from civil war.
More than 400K people killed after Portugis left your country, and our government saves hundreds thousand refugees from eastern Timor during civil war.
I enjoy your name/ land/ Government structure vids. I learn to enjoy/ enjoy to learn
Thanks
I lived there only a year and an half, but it's "PAH-pua" (accent on the first syllable.
0:09 "boarder"? Do these video editing tools not have spell check?
New Guinea, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau. Why so many Guineas?
Because Guinea Pigs
Lol.. those cute guinea pigs
Which are not from the Guineas, but rather from South America.
The reason for all the Guineas in Africa is because historically the region of West Africa was called Guinea. And the New Guinea thing is because the people look similar
And French Guyana
You should make a video about countries/places in the world that has Guinea on its name.
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Didn't go too well? Indonesia take the island from Netherland mostly in military way, never heard about Trikora Operation?
Indonesia ... future topic please? I'd be curious to know not only its name origin, but also some info on how it got to have sooooo many pieces. kinda like how you explained the history of the pieces of Papua
Former Dutch colonies that became one country when they were freed
Thats not racist bro Mestezos and Arabs look similar not racist of me to point that out same goes for whites and north indians.
uno111 dat b racialist doe
No, he is saying that they look similar, becasue they have a similar skin tone, not saying that one is better than the other.
Nicbudd bruh y'all is poblee wite an y'all tokkin bout skin n stuff an dat dun make y'all racialist
Nicbudd u racialist bruh
you do know thatt arabs can be more white than europeons right? they're even considered white under the us law that states only white people may enter the us
nice video man keep it up
How is it racist to say that the people from one place look like the people from another place? Is it not just expressing an opinion or an observation? Is everything racist now?
Wow. Defending that ideology. You racist.
Just kidding, but yes, nowadays everything is racist.
Flash Looks like it.
I think he means it is racist as the Spanish explorer did not use or maybe learn the names of the local instead just dump his observation and used it as the name. Which is kind of rude for the locals as they may be similar in appearance, but their cultures are not.
Just take the example that the Chinese called the Germans 'British' because their appearance is similar to the British which the Germans may feel offended by it and this is maybe sort of like a racist remark. (Not trying to be offensive here, just trying to say an example.)
At the time, Guinea was a common word to name Black Africa. When they reached this Asian island populated with Black folks, they called it New-Guinea (meaning New-Africa). Other islands around had an Asian looking population (Malay), so seeing Blacks over there was weird in the eyes of the European navigators.
I mean as a european explorer he decided to just name the entire people group the same as those on the other side of the because they were both brown. But if you ever called that spanish explorer portugese im sure he would be extremly offended
2:06 oh my god, is that an assault kangaroo?
How you pronounce "Tidore" is just like "Tea-door-e". 'Tea', 'r sound' as in 'adorable', and 'e sound' as in 'pen'
+MrLiXiaoYao Are darn it! I thought I said it right :P
+Name Explain Hahaha... I'm pretty sure if you know a little/learn about Dutch you might pronounce it correctly because how it pronounces was quite similar (indeed Dutch East Indies) :D But if I'm not mistaken, they use the name "Papo Ua" or "Not United" because New Guinea geographically was far away from Sultanate of Tidore's territory or not united with their land. They ruled the Bird's Head Peninsula and small islands near it btw.
Ah I know the tiniest amount of Dutch. Interesting. My sources said it got the name from the land not being United, but in sure their is validity in your information too :D yeah I was debating to talk about the surrounding islands or not as the video was mainly about just the island of New Guinea :)
For Indonesian name, assume each vowel construct a single syllable.
Ti - do - re
Ter - na - te
Pa - pu - a
Ma - sya - ra - kat
Ke - ma - nu - si - (y)a - an
We even simplified Papua New Guinea, into Papua Nugini.
By the way, just recently found this little gem of a channel. Thanks! and keep em coming.
-Tim
The White truly divided us, Papua New Guinea and West Papua should have just been one big nation instead we're divided
Hear hear
Yumi wan solwara 🍻
I noticed the "Territories of _Paupa_ & New Guinea"
This video is not politically bias.
This was very good. I'm from papua New guinea and most of what was in this video is correct except for the definition of papua part that is debatable. But all in all good video mate.
It was formerly called Irian Jaya
In australia i've only really heard it pronounced as papa new guinea and papwa new guinea, so i think they way you pronounced is probably correct
you read it as "i-nyi-go"
Another interesting video :)
+Carpathian Mapper Thanks!
do you mean 'borders' or 'boarders'?
Borders, I spent so long make sure Papua and Guinea were spelt correctly that one completely slipped under the radar!
Interesting, but what is that little bump in that straight border?
PrimaPunchy Mountain
PrimaPunchy actually its a river
It's not a lake? I tough it was a town and a lake.
Fly River
PrimaPunchy
river "fly", i think
I have been to the German part of Papua New Guinea... Such a beautiful place to be... :)
2:06 is this a fucking kangaroo on a leash on the battlefield?
Great video!!! (Also Fred's name would have been pronounced like e-nigo)
Ah well of Fred appears in another video I'll know what to say :D
Spot on bro!
If it wasn't for the Dutch, Indonesia wouldn't be united, Timor and Papua wouldn't be split.
Also, if guinea is in Africa, how did cuy get the name guinea pig? is guinea a native name or?
Guinea pig's etymology is uncertain.
ABCantonese Even before the dutch ruled, Indonesia didnt exist before but there was Srivijaya and also Majapahit kingdom that had wide range from western papua (bird's head) until Malay Peninsula (Singapore and Brunai included).
In the past some parts of West Papua ruled by Tidore Sultanate, and Majapahit empire from Java.
Thats why Indonesia claiming west Papua as part of Indonesia.
Cheers for the explanation.
My Grandmother used to tell me that they're (Indo people, the dutch-mix locals) are going to be transferred to West Papua. Her father was dutch-sumbanese and her mother was arab-portuguese from Waikabubak. But then Indonesia disagree of the idea because the Dutch agree that all of it's former colony are the border of Indonesia, thus killing the plans and causing a large exodus of mixed people from Indonesia to anywhere else in the world. She decide to settle in Indonesia (because she lived far away from large city, thus there is no oppression or pressure to move away).
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Your grandmother was being lied to, the Dutch never agreed to transfer West Papua or Indonesia to what you call Indonesia; the Dutch and United Nations agreed in 1949 to recognise the United States of Indonesia, of which Sukarno's Axis military forces or 'Republic' was one of the States within Java. The 'Republic' immediately began invading and threatening the surrounding States and in July 1950 Sukarno declared all of the United States of Indonesia was now part of his Republic. Its the same way India & Pakistan began colonising the Princely States a soon as they got independence. They use their military & police to enforce their idea of "unity" of their States.
Jim
Andrew Johnson
India and pakistan are not really an example of colonization.
Try AUSTRALIA!😂😂😂
@@daeron767 nice try Aussie
papua was united under kingdom of majapahit since 1293. it was a large kingdom consist of almost all of the south east asian countries today.
Majapahit could not resist the invasion of the Muslims, similar to West Papua in modern times.
"eeNYEEgo."
@Names ExplainedWow that is interesting. Would you do a video about the Philippines I have friends from the Philippines and none of them know what their country was called before the Spanish took over I understand it's a lot of islands and stuff but it would be nice to know what it was before the Spanish took over.
Check out #TheGodCulture. They have a whole lot on the #Philipines. It's...... WOW!
Yñigo looks like it would be pronounced roughly as "een-yih-goh"
i think it's like een-nyi-go
When Indonesia got their independence, the decision came as well to make West-Guinea independent. The Dutch however didn't want to hand them over to the Regime of Java and make West-Guinea an independent country. When indonesia found out they tried to invade and failed. But then the UN and the USA pressured the Netherlands into handing it over. The Netherlands refused and was boycotted for 6 months. Terrible for a country relying on trade to survive. The Netherlands refused and handed it over to the UN with the note that if anyone was going to get the blood of genocide on their hands it was going to be the UN.
I hear most people just calling it PNG these days, which sounds kind of hip, like it's a corporate logo for a gas company or something.
Yep, in Australia we generally just say PNG.
Papua National Gas lol
Beyond that your goal was not to explain the history of the island but just its name. Wasn't there a big struggle for independence? I feel you could have tapped slightly on the topic because I remember it being a big deal at one point, with dutch papua not wanting to be part of Indonesia. But I might not have remembered correctly.
I am a native West Papuan and proud to be Indonesian. Most West Papuans are proud to be Indonesian. Do you know what Indonesian people look like? Indonesia is a diverse country and it is not a 1 culture or a 1 religion country. Indonesia has over 17,000 islands, over 700 languages and has 6 official religions. Every island in Indonesia has its own culture, food, language, tribes, people etc. Melanesian people also not just in Papua but also in the Maluku islands which is in Indonesia. Yes we are all different, we all look different, every island in Indonesia is different, but we are all united into 1 called Indonesia. ''Bhinekka Tunggal Ika'' means ''Unity In Diversity''. You know nothing about West Papua & Indonesia, we are free already. People in the west are brainwashed and manipulated by the made up propaganda by the media. West Papua is part of Indonesia and it was part of The Dutch East Indies when the Dutch announced that the west half of the island of Papua was to join the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1828. When Indonesia had its independence from Japan in 1945 The Dutch promised to give back West Papua to Indonesia, but they broke the promise and instead made a puppet nation called ''West Papua'' and it wasn't until 1969 that finally The Dutch lost the war and handed West Papua back to the Republic of Indonesia. Some of you people don't realise that only a native Papuan can only be govenor of West Papua. West Papua is safe, don't believe in the media and the seperatists. Jokowi has helped developed West Papua. I can tell you now that Papua New Guinea is much more poor and has a much higher crime rate than West Papua. Also the best Indonesian athletes are from West Papua and and many West Papuans like Boaz Solossa, Rudolf Yanto Basna, Marinus Wanewar, Titus Bonai, Elie Aiboy, Oktovianus Maniani, Rivaldo Todd Ferre, Osvaldo Haay, Imanuel Wanggai all play for the Indonesia National football (soccer) team. 2 weeks ago Indonesia won the AFF U-22 Championship with 3 native Papuan players ( Marinus Wanewar, Rivaldo Todd Ferre & Osvaldo Haay). A Papuan club based in the city of Jayapura ''Persipura Jayapura'' play in the Indonesian league and are 3 time Indonesian league champions and are the most successful side in Indonesia.
@@dewa6777 Lol
Yeah sure
A Papuan named 'Dewa' is like some guy named Nguyen claiming to be Hispanic.
Quit spreading lies on the internet
You are not Papuan
Austalia and New Zealand: hey im independent what about colonising other parts of Oceania
Also New Zealand: Sorry Australia but im bored so bye
Australia: Seriously?
@@MGharriy
Dude...
I commented this a year ago, and still I only got 5 likes.
@M Pulverman
2 months passed, and I still got 5 likes
I'm from Adelaide in the state of South Australia, and we say it like 'papa' but the first 'a' is longer than usual (so, paapa')
Fred's name, Ynigo, is En-ee-go, as in "you killed my father, prepare to die"
you forget in the 10th century, the majapahit already reach papua cost
At the beginning West Papua belong to Indonesia..... #NKRIhargamati
Like Hell we did!
Atas dasar apa papua milik indonesia?
About you spelling the 'Papua' word.
I think the third is quite right. a little stress on 'pu' -- pa-PU-a, reduce the sound of 'w' before the 'a' which makes it sound like papuwa.
I think so, anyway.
I hope all the Papuas united and becomes their own Country of Papua without the word Guinea
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Thanks sir this is the exact answer I was looking for
Yñigo in Spanish is written Íñigo, and it's pronounced /inyigo/
That's a very hard-to-say place for an enye to occur in a Spanish word.
Yñigo is an alternative sort of archaic spelling of the name Íñigo.
carultch not for native speaker.
Or /ˈiɲiɣo/ to be precise.
wait so its indonesia that owns the west side of that island and the east south part is a country it self with, but the indonesian part is named papua and the country papua new guinea has that in the name?
Two remarks.
Firstly, you could have mentioned the deplorable situation in West Papua. I understand that you're trying not to be political, but there is a genocide currently under way there. You don't hear from it, because journalists aren't allowed to go there. This very video cannot be shown there, because you included the West Papuan flag, the flying of which gets people killed. Indonesia is a brutally repressive colonizer; enabled by America. It has no claim to the land, other than that it used to be owned by the same colonizer, the Netherlands. It is as though Australia were to invade New Zealand and use the fact that they both belonged to the British as ligitimacy for anexation (not that Indonesia needs such legitimacy, as they showed with East Timor).
And oof... you circled "Old Guinea" wrong. Guinea-Bissau is the first Guinea. It was the first bit of Africa settled by the Portuguese, and they called it Guinea. Afterwards those greedy French took a bigger chunk next to it, which they creatively also called Guinea, but French, and the two became Portuguese and French Guinea respectively.
The Portuguese were the last country to give up their colonies (a story of brutality in its own right, I myself found an unexploded remnant of the war while I was in that country), and by that time "French Guinea" had already become "Guinea". So to set the countries apart, "Portuguese Guinea" became "Guinea-Bissau" after the capital. I like to return the favor by calling the French part "Guinea-Conakry", for clarity.
I will assume that you're an Australian. Why Australian are so insistent that there is Genocide in West Papua? I believe they're not killing the citizen, just the separatist. Are you trying to repeat the history by intervening in Indonesia as you guys do back then in East Timor?
Christian Djami No, I am not Australian.
I am glad however that Australia intervened in East Timor.
I'm not sure if it would work well in West Papua, because the occupation there has resulted in a massive immigration from elsewhere in Indonesia, so the immigrant population is now larger than the native Papuan population.
The reason "separatists" exist is the repression by the Indonesian regime. It's very similar to the Dutch occupation of Indonesia, it's very cynical that Indonesia repeats it in West Papua (as well as East Timor and the South Moluccans).
baasmans Well, Papuans are emigrating to Java as well if you're talking about population shift. People move anywhere and it's guaranteed by the constitution. As long as you're Indonesian you could lived anywhere in Indonesia. I personally don't like the idea of Immigration since it causing a lot of problem (which are being solved by our governments). The idea of Immigration are to 'equalize' Indonesian development since the government couldn't build something if there is no population viable to maintain the structure. I'm myself as Sumbanese feels the impact of Immigrations to the social life. The availibility of Javanese food are so welcomed but there is social and cultural things that I don't like. Thereis debates about Papuan Independenci in our academic circles as our constitution says 'independence are the right of every nations (kemerdekaan ialah hak segala bangsa)' thus the Papuans have the right to be independence. Still even it's contradict to our constitution, as soon as Papua gains independence, the rest of Indonesia would break away as well.
Christian Djami So in essence, we are in agreement. I agree that there is no easy solution, and straight up independence is not a first option, but you cannot deny that the Papuan freedom movement has a legitimat grievance.
The solution starts by admitting that the occupation started out as a crime; something that should not have happened, and that the current situation is repressive and horrible.
It has only been since May of last year that international journalists have been allowed to enter (you'd think the Indonesian government has something to hide?), perhaps the story can finally be told as it is.
baasmans That's where I disagree with you. It's not an occupation and there is no actual reason for Papuans to be independent, they're not oppressed, and Indonesian are starting to build Papua. Also the gas price are another sign that people in Java cared about Papuans by giving them subsidies. Papuans independent meaning that they're even more endangered with American's exploitation. The only options that I agree are to divide Papua into more province so the local governments could cover more place instead of centered on the capital. Also special regions status could be granted with more decentralized autonomy that will suit Papuans needs, just like Aceh.
It was also referred to Kaiser-Wilhelmland as well
Pa poo a
Sorry for any Papua guy but in Indonesia we pronounce word Papua is Pa (like papa) poo a (like air)
1. Papua
2. Irian Jaya (name for whole papua island).
Jaya = Glory
(I do apologize for My bad english)
Interesting as always. But you spelt border wrong
I'm from Papua Indonesia
Can you do the video about Timor that split between West Timor (Indonesia) and East Timor.
Also, what about Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Largest island in the world? Did you forget Greenland?
Pumpa Paj Australia too
Let's not forget Antarctica while we are at it. But then we are starting to cross the distinction between island and continent, because you can argue Eurasia-Africa, being all connected and bound by sea, forms the biggest 'island' in the world.
Zhou Wu Greenland is not a continent, Antarctica and Australia are. There you have the differences.
Greenland isn't actually that big: i.imgur.com/w6IuwA9.png
he said one of the largest islands in the world.
It's funny, from what I've seen, people from Indonesia and PNG seem to pronounce it differently. In Australia we seem to pronounce it differently yet again - we say it the same way you'd say papa.
umm actually we never lost any "Invasion" anything in west papua. cuz we never actually invaded it. We only sent some parachute battalion during the negotiation and put the Flag of Indonesia (Red-White) on papuan lands. We actually have planned the biggest amphibious operation in Indonesia if the negotation didnt went "well" for Indonesia.
The Dutch should have given the West side of the island to Australia, to deny it to the bully-boy tactics of the Indonesians.
dalriada842 I am sure it will be much worse
You are so very wrong about "much worse." Since the annexation in 1962 Kopassus has slaughtered over 500,000 West Papuans. Australia officially turned its back in 2006 when they signed the Lombok Treaty. It's all about maintaining Freeport and the Timorese Sunrise gas fields. Meanwhile the Melanesians are facing genocide at the hands of the Javanese colonialists.
Byron Sigrano Do you think it would ever be possible for the island to be a united sovereign nation state? Is there any sense of common identity on the island? You appear quite knowledgeable about the situation there. Do you live there?
dalriada842 I don't think unificaction is the correct path for West Papua or even viable at this point. Although they share the common link of their Melanesian heritage, there has been too much water under the bridge historically for any such arrangement. No, I don't live there.
Name Explain and Geography/Border/History/General Explanation. Hell yeah!
Shouldn't "Netherlands new Guinea" be called "Dutch new Guinea", since "Dutch" is the possessive pronoun of "the Netherlands"?
+qwertyuiopzxcfgh it was popularly know as Dutch New Guinea but it's official name was Netherlands New Guinea
Nederlands Nieuw Guinea was the Dutch name for it
Yea, that was my point in my original comment.
It's always Netherlands because the population of Netherlands are Nederlanden not Dutch. So the possessive pronoun are Netherlands.
Christian Djami No, the people living in the Netherlands are called Dutch. Source: I am Dutch myself.
I can see you used Paper53 to make your images, NICE
Hi I'm a Papua new Guinean I've been reading through all your Comments some good and some bad well you all have your own point of views about my country that's fine but before you all talk and start arguing about whoever is right and whose wrong well I bat you all should have a visit yourselves so you would know much about my country, by the way we ain't from Africa nether from any other country we are unique in our own diverse culture, yes their are a few of our tribe that are aggressive which are the new guinea but never the Papuan if only you get to the naves, any way before you all start confusing yourselves like I said do a visit, but if you don't much better live my home out of this shit.
Indonesian used to call it Irian Jaya
still confused😂
Indonesia called the Western Papua Region "Irian" until 2002 FYI.
Yñigo : i-NYI-go.
Ortiz : Ohr-teeth (Latin-American pronunciation would render it "Ohr-TEES")
De: deh
Retez: Reh-TEHTH, LA Reh-TEHS.
It is not so difficult once you break it down.
0:08 “Boarder”
Thanks for this video. I lived in PNG 2 years, back in 1981 and 1982 - living in Madang, the capital of Madang Province, and also out in the bush, along the Ramu River among the Azau people. The Highlands are awesome - the mountains are beautiful, and the villages at 3,000, and up to Mt. Hagen, at 5,502 feet (1.728 meters elevation), it eternal Springtime. However, I found myself in the swamplands along the Ramu. :-( It's a land of black sand beaches, as well as white sand beaches, and awesome views of volcanoes rising out of the ocean (Karkar Island, you can't miss it, and all of the steam rising from it's cone just off to the north of Madang. Following the coral road along the north shore are Manam Island, which like KarKar Island has erupted - and yes, people do live on these islands! The people were very friendly (I was "adopted" into the "pukpuk" clan (sea crocodile clan) of the Azau. If you ever get the chance: do go!! I hope to visit again! But, I lived 9 years in Argentina, another wonderful adventure!
Greetings 🇵🇬
0:38 That is ternate