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• Brief Overview of Disasters
• Tropical cyclones, epidemics, earthquakes, frost, floods, landslides, drought and other El Nino consequences, volcano eruptions, and tsunami.
• Fires, ethnic warfare, aviation accidents, chemical spills, industrial and mining accidents.
• Rabaul (Volcano) Aitape (Tsunami)
• - Predicted - Not Predicted
• - Disaster plan(1983) - No Disaster plan
• 2 deaths (day1) - gt1000 deaths(day1)
• - 6 deaths (total) - gt2000 deaths
• - 4 injured - 2000 injured
• - 60,000 homeless - 6,000 homeless
• Calamities Pop Affected Cost(K)
• Volcanic Activities (4) 46,358 4,058,870
• Floods (22) 480,517 13,709,423
• Landslides (22) 19,707(128k) 1,090,000
• Sea Rise (1) 3,227 620,000
• Famine (1) 2,000 200,000
• Earthquakes (4) 221,285(2k) 18,674,000
• Cyclone (1) 158,780 4,960,760
• Drought Frost 2,326,830 29,073,496
• Disease Outbreak (2) 196(11k)
• Hailstorm (3) 2,259 250,000
• Tsunami (1) 12,427(2,227k) 6,008,100
• Chemical Spill (1) 750 46,000
• Kerosene Explosion (1) 39(5k) 35,826
• Total (63) 3,274,375 (2,373k) K78,728,475

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Covering an area of 462,840 sq.km (178,700 sq mi), Papua New Guinea is the 3 rd largest island nation and the world’s 54th largest country.

The nation of Papua New Guinea contains the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, as well as the islands of New Ireland, New Britain, and Bougainville, in addition to numerous smaller islands.

As observed on the physical map of Papua New Guinea above, much of the island nation is mountainous and covered in tropical rainforests. The New Guinea Highlands - a chain of mountains and river valleys, runs the length of the New Guinea island.

As marked on the map by an upright yellow triangle, the highest point of Papua New Guinea is Mount Wilhelm – at an elevation of 14,793 ft (4,509 m). The lowest point of Papua New Guinea is the Pacific Ocean (0m).

Rivers of note include the Sepik River which winds its way through lowland swamp plains to the northern coast, and the Fly River which flows through one of the largest swamplands in the world on its way to the south coast of the island.

Due to its location along the Pacific Ring of Fire, Papua New Guinea has several volcanoes and is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. It's most active volcano, Rabaul Caldera, is situated on the island of New Britain, and as of March 2013 is engaged in an eruptive phase that began in January 2013.

Provinces of Papua New Guinea Map

Papua New Guinea (officially, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea) is divided into 20 provinces, Bougainville autonomous region and National Capital District. In alphabetical order, these provinces are: Central, Chimbu, Eastern Highlands, East New Britain, East Sepik, Enga, Gulf, Hela, Jiwaka, Madang, Manus, Milne Bay, Morobe, New Ireland, Northern, Southern Highlands, Western, Western Highlands, West New Britain and West Sepik. Each of these provinces are further divided into one or more districts. These districts are further subdivided into one or more local-level government areas (LLG).

Covering an area of 462,840 sq.km, Papua New Guinea is the world’s 3 rd largest island nation and the world’s 54 th largest country. Located on the southeastern coast of the island country, along the shores of the Gulf of Papua is, Port Moresby – the capital and the largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is also the largest city in the South Pacific region which is located outside Australia and New Zealand.

Where is Papua New Guinea?

Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania located in southwestern Pacific Ocean. It occupies the eastern half of New Guinea (the world’s 2 nd largest island) and includes numerous offshore islands. Papua New Guinea is geographically positioned both in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. Its neighbors are: Indonesia to the west; Australia to the south and Solomon Islands to the south-east. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean, Bismarck Sea, Solomon Sea, Coral Sea, Torres Strait and Gulf of Papua.

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Population 7 million People Area 462, 840 km2 Capital city Port Moresby. By William McLennan. GEOGRAPHY. Mount Wilhelm Highest mountain in Papua New Guinea. Lake Murray Largest lake in Papua New Guinea. Sepik River Longest River in Papua New Guinea. WEATHER.

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA Population 7 million People Area 462, 840 km2 Capital city Port Moresby By William McLennan

GEOGRAPHY Mount Wilhelm Highest mountain in Papua New Guinea Lake Murray Largest lake in Papua New Guinea Sepik River Longest River in Papua New Guinea

WEATHER Tropical Climate (Hot most of the time) Two Seasons dry and rainy

MAN MADE FEATURE Parliament Building in Port Moresby Opened in 1984

Natural Features Mount Lamington Erupted in 1951 Killing 3000 people

Hooded Pitohui Bird The worlds only poisonous bird lives in Papua New Guinea.

Wallaby Small and jump

Tube Nosed Fruit-Bat

Frilled Dragon Eat insects and like butterflies the best.

Money Papua New Guinea Money is called the Kina. 1 Kina = $0.36 Canadian Until 1933 Papua New Guinea used Sea shells as money.

Food The people eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and fish. Only eat chicken and pigs on special occasions.

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The reasons for the foundation of new religious congregations are always interesting. Sometimes congregations want to incorporate the new group into the existing congregation; or they prefer to encourage Indigenous women to form a new group to promote religious life and service to their local people; or perhaps a bishop asks a congregation to assist him in starting an Indigenous group to serve his diocese.

The stories of how the Spirit of God incorporates religious life into different cultures is especially fascinating. After some years of being missionaries in Papua New Guinea, or PNG, the Society of Australian Congregations of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary decided to help form an Indigenous group to carry on the vision and mission of their Irish foundress, Nano Nagle . After 20 years, it was time to hand over the mission to the new sisters. That was when Sr. Joyce Meyer asked me, as leader of the Society of Presentation Sisters of Australia and Papua New Guinea, to tell this story.

In January 2019, 25 years after the first Melanesian woman joined the mission community of the Presentation Sisters of Australia, the Papua New Guinea group — grown to 20 sisters — began a process to determine their future direction. The Australian mission had begun in 1966 with five Presentation Sisters representing the Society of Australian Congregations of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a way to celebrate their six congregations coming together as a society in 1958.

The Papua New Guinea discernment was precipitated by the pending departure of the last Australian sister that same year. Both the Australian and Papua New Guinea sisters were concerned about the survival of the group once it was left on its own.

Papua New Guinea gained its independence in 1975 and struggled to shape one nation out of hundreds of diverse and quite isolated local societies. The island country has a rugged terrain and that — combined with the climate that creates acres of lush vegetation that grows up almost immediately after it is cut back — makes it difficult to develop sustainable infrastructure.

The five pioneer sisters settled in Ningil, a remote highland village where the community is still present. A new foundation quickly followed in Aitape on the northern coast. Language was a huge challenge; over 850 languages make Papua New Guinea the most linguistically diverse place on earth. To overcome communication barriers, the people speak a common Pidgin English.

The sisters also found travel very challenging. Sister Margaret Mary described it well on the  Presentation website :

"There is no air link between Wewak and Aitape so most people travel by road. On this route there are at least twenty-six rivers to cross. Some of these rivers do not have bridges and those that do have a bridge are often unreliable after heavy flooding. "When I say we 'travel by road' the term 'road' is used loosely! … Rivers are often in flood so it is not advisable to cross when this is the situation. … At the end of a trip the truck is ready for a major overhaul. This often runs into thousands of Kina [the currency of PNG]. A truck is the life line [for the sisters]."

In 2003 three sisters — from villages with different languages — visited several remote villages in the Torricelli Mountains, then formed a community in Yimut, with ministries including administration/secretarial, nursing, education, formation, hospital chaplaincy and pastoral/parish work.

Srs. Maria Kuaga and Elizabeth Sep outside the new convent built by the local people in Pompabus in gratitude for the work the sisters are doing. (Courtesy of Anne Lane)

Ten years later, the sisters knew it was time to move on from Yimut, and responded to a long-time request from a bishop in the remote Highlands of Enga province. After visiting local communities, in February 2018 they established a new community in Pompabus, where they established the first health center in the area. As a sign of appreciation, the local community built a convent for the sisters which was opened in September 2021. While built in a traditional Papua New Guinea manner, it will have solar power and running water —something the sisters will enjoy!

At our meeting in 2019, as the then-leader of the Presentation congregation in the Wagga Wagga region of Australia, I offered to meet with the Papua New Guinea community with three options: disband, join a like-minded group in PNG, or form a temporary team — some PNG sisters with members of the Wagga Wagga group — to discern how to move forward. The community chose the third option.

The Papua New Guinea Sisters invited two of the previous leadership team, including me, to stay as members of what they called an interim leadership team, and they elected two team members from among themselves. The Australian leaders agreed to fund the education of any sister who chose to leave as discernment proceeded. Since that decision, six sisters have left, leaving a community of 14.

Another significant decision of the discernment was that all their ministries, whether teaching, nursing or pastoral work, would have a particular focus towards combating  gender-based violence  — very prevalent in Papua New Guinea — through educational processes or direct service with women and child victims.

The sisters wanted to begin immediately, but needed training. Providentially, the  Tribal Link Foundation , an international nongovernmental organization whose mission is to help strengthen capacity of Indigenous communities, had recently made a culturally sensitizing film called  "Senisim Pasin"  ("change your ways") about gender-based violence, to address negative cultural beliefs about women.

The sisters completed the training program and began showing the film and sharing their training. The positive responses resulted in cross-disciplinary groups of teachers, nurses, church groups, police and local officials in the different villages of the Aitape region.

We were excited about it, and the International Presentation Association — Presentation Sisters and their co-workers and friends from around the world — also decided to take gender-based violence as an issue wherever they were in ministry. Inspired by the sisters in Papua New Guinea, they started raising funds to support their work.

The Spirit has assisted us in this venture: in 2020, the St. John of God Brothers in Australia decided to withdraw from Aitape, where they ministered with people suffering from psychiatric or addiction issues. The brothers offered the property to the sisters, as a refuge for victims of gender-based violence. One of the brothers, who died trying to help a woman victim of gender-based violence, is buried on that property!

The sisters continue to seek a suitable partner to work with them in the management and ongoing education of the project. The local people and government officials have promised to support the ministry once it is established. Just as we were getting started — as with most other places in the world — Papua New Guinea was disrupted by COVID-19 which slowed down the process.

However, the dream is strong and even though the main project has to wait, two sisters living in a remote village in the mountains have welcomed into their home two young women, 13 and 18 years old. Both were rejected by their families and their schools after they were sexually assaulted. They now have a safe place to live and the chance to continue their education. It gives us hope that both the project and the sisters will find their place in Papua New Guinea.

These 14 women are very courageous not to give up in their intention to follow the inspiration of Nano Nagle in her quest to liberate women and children from oppression — in this case, a cultural oppression of women.

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Papua New Guinea’s government has told the United Nations it thinks more than 2,000 people were buried in a landslide. Aid from Australia arrived in the country and was seen being placed into trucks.

CORRECTS DATE - In this image taken from video, drone footage shows a landslide in Yambali village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Monday, May 27, 2024. Emergency responders say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday, May 24 becomes increasingly unstable. (Juho Valta/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

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CORRECTS DATE - In this image taken from video, drone footage shows the landslide in Yambali village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Monday, May 27, , 2024. Emergency responders say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday, May 24 becomes increasingly unstable. (Juho Valta/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

CORRECTS DATE - In this image taken from video, drone footage shows landslide in Yambali village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Monday, May 27, 2024. Emergency responders say thousands of survivors might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday, May 24, becomes increasingly unstable. (Juho Valta/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

A helicopter delivers aid from Australia at Wapenamanda Airport in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Emergency responders say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday, May 24, becomes increasingly unstable. (Juho Valta/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

Locals unload aid from Australia on it’s arrival at Wapenamanda Airport in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Emergency responders say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday, May 24, becomes increasingly unstable. (Juho Valta/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

Australian High Commissioner in Papua New Guinea, John Feakes stands with a shipment of aid on it’s arrival at Wapenamanda Airport in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Emergency responders say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday, May 24 becomes increasingly unstable. (Juho Valta/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Traumatized survivors of the massive landslide estimated to have buried hundreds in Papua New Guinea have been slow to move to safer ground as the South Pacific island nation’s authorities prepare to use heavy machinery to clear debris and risk triggering another landslide, officials said Thursday.

Government and army geotechnical experts on Thursday were examining the stability of the massive swath of rubble that crushed Yambali village when a mountainside collapsed last week, Enga provincial administrator Sandis Tsaka said. Australian and New Zealand experts were expected to arrive on Friday.

Two excavators and a bulldozer were ready to start digging on one side of the mass of debris more than 150 meters (500 feet) wide while another excavator and a bulldozer were also ready on the other side, Tsaka said. Villagers have been digging with spades, farming tools and their bare hands since the disaster in search of survivors or bodies.

“It’s still very active. We’re getting rocks and debris still moving so it’s been unsafe for our first responders and our emergency team,” Tsaka told The Associated Press.

The United Nations estimated 670 villagers died in the disaster that immediately displaced 1,650 survivors. Papua New Guinea’s government has told the United Nations it thinks more than 2,000 people were buried. Only six bodies have been retrieved.

A hospital in the provincial capital Wabag on Thursday reported 17 patients had been injured by the disaster, that struck at 3 a.m. while the village slept.

Authorities say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed Yambali becomes increasingly unstable and threatens to tumble further downhill. There is also a growing disease risk for those downhill from water streams buried beneath rubble and decomposing corpses that continue to seep from the debris.

Tsaka said only 700 people had agreed to evacuate on Wednesday.

“They’re emotionally scarred and it’s their home and they’re reluctant to move, but we’re encouraging them to move,” Tsaka said. “The villages at risk have been put on alert to move as and when required.”

There were also cultural sensitivities surrounding displaced people intruding upon someone else’s land in a volatile province that is almost always dealing with tribal warfare, officials said.

“That’s a challenge, but with a tragedy the communities and the surrounding villages have come in to help and they’re taking care of the villagers who have been impacted,” Tsaka said.

Chris Jensen, country director for the children-focused charity World Vision, said moving vulnerable villagers onto neighbors’ land was likely a short-term option.

“There’s a concern that if you move people onto land that’s not their land — it’s other people’s land — maybe in the short-term it could be OK, but in the long run, it’s the sort of thing that could trigger challenges. It’s a very sensitive issue,” Jensen said.

But many from Yambali’s surrounds are keen to relocate to somewhere safer, including Frida Yeahkal.

“The stones from the mountain still keep falling. The land, food gardens and houses have been destroyed, and we appeal to the government to help us relocate to a safe place, where we can settle,” Yeahkal told U.N. Development Program officials when they visited the village on Wednesday.

“There is little food and water. We are hungry and asking for your help. We are not even sleeping at night. We are afraid that more of the mountain will slide down and it will kill us all,” she said.

Authorities acknowledge there were many more people in the village than the almost 4,000 that official records suggest. But no one knows how many were present when the mountainside collapsed.

Tsaka said two of the six bodies recovered so far were visitors, which he said suggested many outsiders could be buried among locals.

The nearby Porgera Gold Mine has offered additional earth-moving equipment to the emergency response.

The mine’s manager Karo Lelai confirmed the offer had been made, but could not say what equipment would be provided or when it would arrive.

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Papua New Guinea to End Search for Landslide Victims

The death toll remained unclear weeks after the tragedy, but there are signs the number of victims may have been much lower than previously thought.

By Christopher Cottrell and Jin Yu Young

Two weeks after a landslide leveled a remote community in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province, search and rescue operations are about to end, amid indications that the disaster was less devastating than previously thought.

So far, 11 bodies have been recovered, but crews have struggled to work through debris that covered an irregularly shaped area more than a third of a mile long. Aid workers have distributed food — rice, canned fish, cooking oil, sugar and salt — to about 3,000 people living near the site.

Geological experts from New Zealand have urged the authorities to evacuate a larger area because of the risk of another landslide, a United Nations agency said, adding that the search for victims is scheduled to end on Friday.

“The provincial government will cease searching for bodies due to public health risks and the potential for new landslides, as the soil remains unstable,” the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency, said in a statement late Wednesday. “The unrecovered bodies will be declared missing persons, and the landslide site will be designated a mass burial site with monuments erected.”

The true death toll from the landslide may never be known. Two days after the disaster, the United Nations estimated that about 670 people had perished. Then came a much higher projection, from local officials, of more than 2,000 dead.

But on Wednesday, the Papua New Guinea Tribal Foundation, a nonprofit that has been active for more than a decade, said that the toll may have been far lower.

“The exact number of people killed is not known but estimated by local community leaders to be between 200 and 600,” G.T. Bustin, the president of the Papua New Guinea Tribal Foundation, said in a statement. “It will take quite some time to know the exact number of individuals missing due to the fact that many from the area could have been in different parts of the province or country at the time of the incident.”

Some experts said that it was hard to pinpoint a precise number of victims because of the difficulty in getting to the affected area, where the main highway remains blocked.

“Many hazard specialists rely on remotely sensed imagery to assess the situation, but it can take days for the data to become available depending on the satellites used and degree of cloud cover,” Claire Dashwood, a landslide expert at the British Geological Survey, said in an email, referring to such disasters in general.

It was initially also unknown how many people were displaced, in part because it was not clear how many people had been living in the area.

Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea noted that the area was near the Porgera gold mine and was known to draw people from elsewhere. “Many trade on the roadside on the way to the project of Porgera,” he said, adding that authorities were working to determine how many were unaccounted for. He estimated that almost 7,500 people would need to be relocated permanently.

An electoral roll in 2022 estimated the region’s population at just under 4,000, although that did not account for people under 18, a United Nations official said last week.

The landslide happened at about 3 a.m. on May 24 in a remote section of Papua New Guinea’s highlands near Yambali village. Two nearby communities, Kaokolam and Tuliparr, were destroyed, said Ruth Kissam, a community organizer in the surrounding Enga Province. Kaokolam had a population of less than 100, she said. It wasn’t clear how many people lived in Tuliparr.

Jin Yu Young reports on South Korea, the Asia Pacific region and global breaking news from Seoul. More about Jin Yu Young