border countries (6): Cote d'Ivoire 816 km, Guinea-Bissau 421 km, Liberia 590 km, Mali 1062 km, Senegal 363 km, Sierra Leone 794 km Coastline: This entry gives the total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea. Coastline field listing 320 km Mariti...
The mainland coast of Papua New Guinea is nearly 4,000 km long but when the shores of the numerous, often substantial offshore islands are included (Fig. 1) the total length approaches 9,000 km. The bulk of the coast comprises deposits of relatively immature terrigenous sediments which have...
Coastline 320 Landborder 4046 Elevation Highest point(World Rank: 137)1,752m Agricultural land Total(World Rank: 48)58.10% Arable(World Rank: 97)11.80% Permanent crops(World Rank: 77)2.80% Permanent pastures(World Rank: 28)43.50% Irrigated land(World Rank: 101)950sq km ...
The mainland coast of Papua New Guinea is nearly 4,000 km long but when the shores of the numerous, often substantial offshore islands are included (Fig. 1) the total length approaches 9,000 km. The bulk of the coast comprises deposits of relatively immature terrigenous sediments which have...
The GoP is located on the southern coastline of mainland PNG and is adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Coral Sea. It has a total area of ~30,000 km2and consists of a broad shelf with a maximum width of ~150 km near the Fly Delta and narrows to less than 20 km east of...
Elevations of waterline marks and displaced debris measured by the first International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST; Kawata et al., 1999) indicated an average runup of 10 m occurring over a 25 km length of coastline in the vicinity of Sissano Lagoon (Figure 2). The maximum runup from this ...
which extends from the mouth of the Ramu River to Astrolabe Bay and the Huon Peninsula. It was along this coastline that ethnographic groups such as the Bilbil speakers acted as mobile subsistence traders in the Madang exchange network, interlinking with the Siassi and Tami exchange networks (Har...
(more than 30 feet) high, slammed the coastline. The waves swept men, women and children into the sea. Most of the victims were children. The waves were followed by a brief lull then a fourth less violent wave arrived. By 7.07 pm, approximately 18 minutes after the earthquake, the sea...
The mainland coast of Papua New Guinea is nearly 4,000 km long but when the shores of the numerous, often substantial offshore islands are included (Fig. 1) the total length approaches 9,000 km. The bulk of the coast comprises deposits of relatively immature terrigenous sediments which have...
In 2001, at the time of drilling, the coastline had retreated westward to within 5–10 m of the drill hole collars. Full size image The tsunami probably was caused by a submarine slump or landslide. This would explain how an earthquake of moderate magnitude could generate a major tsunami ...