Part 6. Present plate boundary seismic, volcanic and kinematic processes: Time variations in recent volcanism and seismicity along convergent plate boundaries of the south Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
R.J.S. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Plate Boundaries ◽  
Complete Arc ◽  
Time Variations ◽  
New Britain ◽  
Western Half ◽  
Eastern Half

A striking spatial and temporal clustering of volcanic eruptions has occurred in the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, Papua New Guinea, since late 1972. In the complete arc, six volcanoes have been active during this period, Long Island, Langila, Ulawan, Karkar, Manam, and Ritter Island. Ulawan is located in the eastern (New Britain) half of the arc. The other five are located consecutively in the western half of the arc; no definite historical eruptions are known from any other volcano in the sector containing them. This western half is distinguishable from the eastern half on petrological and geophysical grounds by Johnson (this Symposium). The only western volcanoes with historical eruptions but not active in this present phase, are in the Schouten Islands at the far western end of the arc; this sector is also petrologically distinguishable.

Papua New Guinea, East New Britain, Bismark Sea Coast

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (sp1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Finkl ◽  
Christopher Makowski
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
New Britain ◽  
Sea Coast

Application of PIXE-PIGME to Archaeological Analysis of Changing Patterns of Obsidian Use in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

1998 ◽  
pp. 129-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Summerhayes ◽  
J. R. Bird ◽  
R. Fullagar ◽  
C. Gosden ◽  
J. Specht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Archaeological Analysis ◽  
New Britain

Radiocarbon Dates from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Specht ◽  
Ian Lilley ◽  
John Normu
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
New Britain

35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (260) ◽  
pp. 604-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Pavlides ◽  
Chris Gosden
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Open Site ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
New Britain

The growing story of early settlement in the northwest Pacific islands is moving from coastal sites into the rainforest. Evidence of Pleistocene cultural layers have been discovered in open-site excavations at Yombon, an area containing shifting hamlets, in West New Britain's interior tropical rainforest. These sites, the oldest in New Britain, may presently stand as the oldest open sites discovered in rainforest anywhere in the world.

scholarly journals From Planning to Action: Forest Conservation and Management in Papua New Guinea

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Subsistence Agriculture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Eastern Half ◽  
Conservation And Management

Papua New Guinea (PNG) occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and still boasts 33 million hectares of closed natural forest (77% of the country), home to numerous endemic species. Overall PNG is sparsely populated with some 700 distinct cultural/ language groups. Economic growth over the past two decades has been spurred by large-scale mining, petroleum and logging operations though the majority of the population continues to rely upon subsistence agriculture (swidden) and collection and utilization of forest products. Some 15 million hectares of forests are accessible for logging, of which 1.5 million hectares have already been logged, generally in an unsustainable manner. Of the over 6 million ha of approved timber blocks more than 1.5 million hectares have been located in areas of high biological value. Forest loss and degradation is now becoming a serious problem.

scholarly journals Enacting the Absent State: State-formation on the oil-palm frontier of Pomio (Papua New Guinea)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Tammisto
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The State ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Active Worker ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Britain

Tammisto, Tuomas 2016. Enacting the Absent State: State-formation on the oil-palm frontier of Pomio (Papua New Guinea). Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 62: 51-68. In this article I examine the relationship between new oil-palm plantations and state-formation in Pomio, a remote rural district of East New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea). I am particularly interested in the kinds of spaces of governance produced by the new oil-palm plantations and how this contributes to state formation and territorialisation in Pomio.Plantations in Pomio do not became state-like spaces as a result of top-down processes alone, but also because of active worker initiatives. By contributing to state formation in this way, the inhabitants of Pomio also make claims on what the state should be like. While plantations become governable and statelike spaces, they do not produce simply governable subjects, nor do they produce a uniformly governable territory but an uneven space in which some places are more governable than others. The inhabitants of Pomio move between these places in their pursuit of different goals.

A Summary of Precursors to Volcanic Eruptions in Papua New Guinea

1989 ◽  
pp. 260-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mori ◽  
C. McKee ◽  
B. Talai ◽  
I. Itikarai
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
New Guinea

Awareness of personal height and weight among community-dwelling people in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Saito ◽  
Angelberth Bai ◽  
Nobuko Matsui ◽  
Kazuhiro P Izawa
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Measurement Scales ◽  
Specific Population ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Average Body Mass ◽  
New Britain ◽  
Average Body

We investigated the accessibility of height- and weight-measurement tools and the awareness of one's own height and weight in a specific population in West New Britain Province (WNBP), Papua New Guinea, where obesity is prevalent. Of 558 participants (mean age 34.8 ± 14.0 years, 48.2% women, average body mass index =25.1 ± 4.83 kg/m2), >70% had limited access to measurement scales and 97.5% lacked accurate knowledge of their own height and weight. Our findings imply that increased access to measurement tools and awareness of personal height and weight is necessary to improve the feasibility and effectiveness of weight-management interventions in areas such as WNBP.

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