{"id":136,"date":"2015-08-20T07:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/?p=136"},"modified":"2020-02-15T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T09:10:02","slug":"papua-new-guinea-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/papua-new-guinea-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PNG-2015-Blog-77-of-86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PNG-2015-Blog-77-of-86-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"PNG 2015 Blog - 77 of 86\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PNG-2015-Blog-77-of-86-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PNG-2015-Blog-77-of-86-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Papua New Guinea is 0.6 degrees south of the equator. it is an Oceanic country \u00a0With offshore islands in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanesia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melanesia<\/a> in the South West Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world with 848 languages. It&#8217;s 7 million people live in mainly rural populations and in the few towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p>The country is situated on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ring_of_Fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Ring of Fire<\/a> and there are earthquakes and active volcanoes. It is surrounded by coral reefs and in the highlands there are dense rainforest and a rugged terrain across the mountains, the highest of which is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Wilhelm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mt Willhelm<\/a> at 4,509 metres.<\/p>\n<p>The islands are at the east of the main land and some of the pilgrims will be visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Britain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Britain Island.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Narrative and data links: Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\" alt=\"Papua New Guinea 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papua New Guinea 2015 &#8211; a journey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea is 0.6 degrees south of the equator. it is an Oceanic country \u00a0With offshore islands in Melanesia in the South West Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world with 848 languages. It&#8217;s 7 million people live in mainly rural populations and in the few towns &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/papua-new-guinea-geography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Papua New Guinea Geography<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papua-new-guinea","category-pilgrimage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xUPl-2c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}