Translation for '
New Guinea' from English to Russian
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Usage Examples English
- He followed the south coast of New Guinea eastwards in an attempt to find a passage to the eastern side of New Holland.
- Relations between Fiji and Papua New Guinea became strained in November 2005, in the wake of revelations that a number of Fijian citizens, possibly mercenaries, had entered Papua New Guinea illegally and were involved in arming and training a separatist militia on the island of Bougainville.
- The culture of the Torres Strait Islanders is related to that of adjacent parts of New Guinea and so their music is also related.
- During World War II, Australian troops engaged in the hard-fought Kokoda Track campaign (July–November 1942) in New Guinea, were surprised by the physique and fighting prowess of the first Japanese troops they encountered.
- The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and the eastern part of New Guinea.
- In the Solomon Islands and New Guinea Campaigns and the air defence of Australia, improved tactics and training allowed the USAAF to better use the strengths of the P-40.
- After the Japanese abandoned Guadalcanal in February 1943, Allied operations in the Pacific shifted to the New Guinea campaign and isolating Rabaul.
- German New Guinea was a German protectorate in the Pacific. It was occupied by Australian forces in 1914.
- In "Guns, Germs and Steel", Jared Diamond suggests "Protein starvation is probably also the ultimate reason why cannibalism was widespread in traditional New Guinea highland societies".
- Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu became Commonwealth realms.
- In Oceania, the Baptist Union of Papua New Guinea with 489 churches and 84,000 members, the Australian Baptist Ministries with 1,021 churches and 76,046 members.
- The Fore people of Papua New Guinea are known to eat human brains.
- Descendants of the Cocos Malays brought to the islands from the Malay Peninsula, the Indonesian archipelago, Southern Africa and New Guinea by Hare and by Clunies-Ross as indentured workers, slaves or convicts are [...] seeking recognition from the Australian government to be acknowledged as Indigenous Australians.
- A few species are able to use chemical defences against predators; some Procellariiformes can eject an unpleasant stomach oil against an aggressor, and some species of pitohuis from New Guinea have a powerful neurotoxin in their skin and feathers.
- It is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea. Cameroon's landmass is [...] , with [...] of water.
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