Its seascape stretches from the Birdshead (Doberai) Peninsula of West Papua (also known as Irian Jaya), across the Admiralty and Bismarck archipelagos of Papua New Guinea, to Makira Island of the ...
In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook's Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey (450 miles ...