Abstract

New Guinea, nearly 320,000 square miles in extent, is a relatively young island geologically. Stretching 1500 miles from east to west just below the equator, New Guinea is dominated by an exceptionally rugged chain of mountains throughout its length; Mt. Carstensz in the Snow Mountains in western New Guinea rises to over 16,000 feet and Mt. Wilhelm, to about 15,000 feet in the Bismarck Range in the Australian-administered eastern half of

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