Huon Gulf Research Articles

Fojia bumui, an Unusual New Genus and Species of Scincid Lizard from New Guinea

Fojia bumui, a new genus and species of lygosomine skink is described from speci- mens collected near small, rocky streams at low to middle elevations around Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea. The taxon is a derivative of the variegatus species group of Sphenomorphus. It differs most noticeably from its nearest relatives, and indeed most other skinks, in having normal sized middorsal scales juxtaposed with tubercular lateral scales; all dorsal scales with pustules, and in mature males, patches of glands on the chin, abdomen and underside of the thighs and tail base. The ecological associations of these structures in Fojia and other squamates are discussed.

Northern New Guinea Wrench Fault System: A Manifestation of Late Cenozoic Interactions Between Australian and Pacific Plates: ABSTRACT

Cenozoic plate interactions between the Australian and Pacific plates have yielded a variety of convergent tectonic styles. Two major products of this convergence are the Sorong fault zone of Irian Jaya and the Ramu-Markham fault zone of Papua. The Sorong fault system has been documented to extend westward more than 500 mi (800 km) from Teluk Sarera to Kep Banggai as a left-lateral strike-slip fault. The Ramu-Markham fault system is of disputed displacement and has been previously interpreted to extend from over 310 mi (500 km) just east of the Sepik River into the Huon Gulf. A consideration of Australian-Pacific Cenozoic plate kinematics, Holocene vectors, earthquake focal mechanisms, photogeologic lineation analyses, and the assimilation of other pertinent geologic data suggests that the Ramu-Markham fault zone is an extension of the Sorong fault system and that together they represent significant left-lateral strike-slip motion in rigid crustal basement. This motion has produced large scale en echelon surface expressed faults and folds in detached overlying Neogene sediments. Furthermore, this wrench fault system has led to the transcompressional development and deformation of the Meervlakt, Piore, Sepik, and Ramu basins of northern New Guinea. An understanding of the tectonic evolution of these basins is tantamount to an assessment of their evolving hy rocarbon potential. End_of_Article - Last_Page 980------------

Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942--1 May 1944.

Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942 - 1 May 1944, Volume 6 in the series, examines the drive up from Guadalcanal and New Guinea to the taking of Rabaul and the colossal American victory at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea during the Papuan campaign. This volume also covers the Central Solomons, the Huon Gulf offensive, the invasion of New Georgia, and the Battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombagnara.

Two Tonal Languages of New Guinea

WHILST the tonal languages spoken in West Africa have latterly received W a good deal of attention, it has not been generally realized that such languages are found also in parts of New Guinea. In New Guinea there are in fact two types of tonal languages. In one, the tones may be described as ” ornamental”, i.e. though they exist they do not seem to have semantic value, but rather to be connected with a certain type of sentence rhythm; in the other the tone systems are more definitely akin to those of Western Africa, and in such languages tones do possess semantic value. It is interesting that one at least of the latter group of languages tends also to be monosyllabic. It is hoped to provide a study of the former class of languages—at least one representative of which is also found in Northern Australia—at a later date. The present paper is occupied with the languages in which tones do have semantic value.These languages, so far as has been observed yet, are two in number, and they are spoken along the shores of Huon Gulf, in north-eastern New Guinea. The map on p. 186 will show their locations. Both belong to the group of languages known as Melanesian, and this makes the occurrence of tones even less expected. A considerable number of other languages are spoken round about this area, and though some of these also are Melanesian, they do not seem to have developed tones. Moreover, it would seem that the use of tones in these two languages antedates the coming of the Melanesian languages, for reasons that will be given towards the end of this paper.

Medical Experiences with American Troops in the Pacific

THIS report is based on patients seen during two years at a large United States Army general hospital in the rich Lockyer River Valley of southern Queensland, seventy miles west of Brisbane, Australia, and during a year and a half of service with another general hospital located first at Lae, on the Huon Gulf in northeastern New Guinea, and later at San Fernando, at the upper extremity of the Lingayen Gulf, Province of La Union, on the Island of Luzon, in the Philippines. Many of the observations made were new to us as individuals; others, to the best of my . . .

Folk-Stories of a Stone Age People in New Guinea

THE people whose stories form the subject of this paper live in the interior of the Morobe District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Their villages are situated on the spurs of the mountains known as the Ekuti Ranges (the water-shed between the Watut and Tiveri Rivers), in the valley of the Upper Watut, and on the ridge between the Watut and the Bulolo. The Watut River, after being joined by the Bulolo, flows into the River Markham, which reaches the sea at Lae on the Huon Gulf.

Life on the upper Watut, New Guinea

TO set out to study a Stone Age people by aeroplane sounds rather a paradoxical proceeding. But it can be done in New Guinea, so rapid has been the progress of air travel owing to the finding of gold in the interior and the enterprise of a few men who realized the possibilities of the aeroplane in solving the transport problems of the miners. I left Salamaua (on the Huon Gulf) at the end of July 1936 in a Gypsy Moth, and after half an hour's flight over mountain ranges was set down at the little landing-ground called Surprise Creek, on the Upper Watut river, within some six hours' walk of villages whose inhabitants only a very short while before had been entirely ignorant of metal, and who were actually still living at a stage of culture fairly comparable with that of the people of Britain in the neolithic period. My journey was undertaken on behalf of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, on the suggestion of Professor Henry Balfour, with the object of learning what I could of the life of a modern Stone Age people, and in particular of their material culture and their methods of making and using stone tools, for in this way an ethnologist can sometimes fill up some of the gaps in the archaeological record. I am not here concerned with details of technique, but I shall try to give some account of the use a primitive people makes of the natural resources that are available.

THE BALUM CULT OF THE BUKAUA OF HUON GULF, NEW GUINEA1

OceaniaVolume 5, Issue 3 p. 338-345 Article THE BALUM CULT OF THE BUKAUA OF HUON GULF, NEW GUINEA1 Stephen Lehner, Stephen LehnerSearch for more papers by this author Stephen Lehner, Stephen LehnerSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1935 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1935.tb00155.xCitations: 1 †† Translated from the German by Camilla H. Wedgwood. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume5, Issue3March 1935Pages 338-345 RelatedInformation