Lae, island of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) On the southern coast of the Huon Peninsula is the second largest city in Papu New Guinea – Lae . At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a small missionary settlement here, but by the middle of the 20th century, when gold was found in the mountains, the settlement began to turn into a large city. Now Lae is one of the main industrial centers of the country. The main…
This island state of Melanesia includes the eastern section of New Guinea and a set of adjacent islands, including the Admiralty Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Northern Solomon Islands, the Entrecasteaux Islands and Louisiade. The population is made up of two main indigenous groups: the Melanesian, present in the northern coastal strip of the major island, and the Papuan, majority, in the central mountains and in the southern coastal region. On the other hand, this subdivision underlies a great ethnolinguistic…