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Name (Cartographic)
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Papua New Guinea
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Indigenous Language Group
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Multiple
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Languages Spoken
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Over eight hundred indigenous languages
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Tok Pisin
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Quote
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Wash them with your rainbow tears, / reveal to them / their opal is lying there.
Poetry.
Walker, Kath. "Papua New Guinea." Kovave: A Journal of New Guinea Literature, vol. 5, no. 1, 1975, p. 5.
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To understand this kind of country and this kind of war, you must abandon all visions of tropical islands, white beaches, waving palmtrees, tinkling music, romantic moonlight. New Guinea is not that kind of island at all.
Historical prose.
Slessor, Kenneth. "New Guinea: The Twilight War" [1943]. Bread and Wine: Selected Prose. Angus and Robertson, pp. 267-275, pp. 269-270.
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She [Queensland] could not get New Guinea but managed to get as near as possible. We followed round as close as we could get between the islands and the coast of New Guinea, taking in practically everything.
History.
Griffiths, Samuel, qtd. in W. E. Holder, "The Queensland 'Border': The Legal Position," in The Border and Associated Problems: The Torres Strait Islanders, edited by E. K. Fisk, Maree Tait, W. E. Holder, and M. E. Threadgold, vol. 5, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1974, p. 38.
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The government, the first time, came and passed also like a fever.
Historical fiction.
Shearston, Trevor. White Lies. University of Queensland Press, 1986.
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When the sleeping isles were shaken
And many there bewildered fled,
Forsaking when they felt forsaken,
These, no less bewildered, made
Like reckoning of their chance, and stayed.
Hunted often, and misled
By rumour, fear or stratagem,
Some died in horror without aid
And the years grow over them.
I write it brief and unadorned
Than some remembrance may be paid
Far longer than they can be mourned.
Poetry.
McAuley, James. "Memorial to Some Residents of New Guinea." Meanjin, vol. 6, no. 1, 1947, p. 20.
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identifier
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GEO-PNG