Abstract
Southern Highlands Province (SHP) is located almost in the middle of the mainland of Papua New Guinea. It is on the south-western end of the Highlands Highway and subject to the vicissitudes of landslides, bridge failures, potholes and criminal activity along the whole 600 km of the highway to Lae. The province is 25,698 km in area and is the eighth largest province in terms of land area in Papua New Guinea. Land in the SHP ranges from below 600 m to over 2800 m in altitude. Land above 2800 m is not used for agriculture in Papua New Guinea and is usually not permanently occupied, although it is used extensively for hunting and harvesting pandanus, an important seasonal food source. Around 14 per cent of SHP is below 600 m altitude and just over five per cent is above 2800 m (Table 3.1).
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