A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has hit a remote part of western Papua New Guinea killing at least three ... 60 or 70 villages involved all along the Sepik River," Mr Bird told the ABC on Monday.

While much has changed since anthropologist Margaret Mead first described the region, journeys on the Sepik River are still like a step back in time—life is primitive, and the abundance of plants ...

This wooden carving originated in the Sepik River area of New Guinea. It represents the ancestral fish spirit of one of the local clans. The peoples of the interior of New Guinea have some of the ...

then on to Papua New Guinea, and finally into the frontier town of Wewak: the gateway to the “Amazon of the South Pacific”, the Sepik River. First we drove, on the one winding single-track ...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale struck a remote area of western Papua New Guinea ... 70 villages involved all along the Sepik River,” Bird explained in an interview ...

To first search for the Meakambut, our team flies by bush plane into the Sepik River basin, the floodplain that drains northwest Papua New Guinea. We then skim up smaller and smaller tributaries ...

Sepik Plains, Papua New Guinea? Know about Sepik Plains Airport in detail. Find out the location of Sepik Plains Airport on Papua New Guinea map and also find out airports near to Sepik Plains. This ...

These kinds of behaviours may seem anomalous – even outlandish – but actually they are remarkably widespread and ancient in human societies. Kaningara men from the Sepik River region of Papua ...

Will emerging conservation frameworks rise to the challenge? The biodiverse Sepik River region in eastern Papua New Guinea is thought to harbor 300+ languages and some 430,000 people. Image ...