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Papua New Guinea; Use: National flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 3:4: Adopted: 1 July 1971; 53 years ago (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
Flag Date Use Description 1971–present: Flag of Papua New Guinea: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with a silhouette of the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise in yellow and the lower triangle is black with the Crux of four white larger five-pointed stars and a smaller star.
Susan Hareho Karike Huhume (c. 1956 –11 April 2017) was a Papua New Guinean housewife, who, as a schoolgirl, designed the colours of her country's national flag.. Karike married Nanny Huhume and they had four children and twelve grandchildren.
Papua New Guinea men's national basketball team; Papua New Guinea national soccer team; Papua New Guinea women's national basketball team; Rugby union at the 1966 South Pacific Games; Rugby union at the 1969 South Pacific Games; Rugby union at the Pacific Games; Sailing at the Pacific Games; Samoa national football team; Solomon Islands ...
The Papua New Guinea National Emblem is a partially-stylized representation of the widespread Bird of Paradise Genus paradisaea in display, head turned to its left, seated on the upturned grip of a horizontal Kundu drum with the drum-head to the right side of the bird, from behind which a horizontal ceremonial spear projects with the head to the left of the bird.
English: Flag of Papua New Guinea Colours: Pantone 186 C for red and 116 C for yellow. ... History of Papua New Guinea; ISO 4217; International Maritime Organization;
DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIONAL EMBLEM (National Identity Act 1971) The Papua New Guinea National Emblem is a partiaIIy-stylized representation of the widespread Bird of Paradise Genus paradisaea in display, head turned to its left, seated on the upturned grip of a horizontal Kundu drum with the drum-head to the right side of the bird, from behind which a horizontal ceremonial spear projects with ...
The prehistory of Papua New Guinea can be traced to about 50,000–60,000 years ago, when people first migrated towards the Australian continent.The written history began when European navigators first sighted New Guinea in the early part of the 17th century.