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New Guinea


Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of Australia. The western half of the island is administered by Indonesia.	1
‡ New Guinea is the world’s second-largest island, after Greenland.	2
‡ It was named for its resemblance to the Guinea coast of western Africa.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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