Throwback Thursday: Peace Corps in Papua New...

Throwback Thursday: Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea

701 volunteers worked in Papua New Guinea over a twenty year period from 1981 to 2001. The Peace Corps Times from 1985 stated that a major project within the region was crocodile farming. Many volunteers were highly trained to work with these kinds of projects. One volunteer, Aaron Petty once volunteered in Papua New Guinea with his wife, Vanessa, and shared his experience coexisting with a native group of people called the Hagahai. You can read his story here: http://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/learn/whatlike/ownwords/255/
Other facts about Papua New Guinea include:
Papua New Guinea consists of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the islands of New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and around six hundred smaller islands, north of Australia.
Papua New Guinea is one of the largest islands in the world.
Papua New Guinea has a greater density of languages than any other nation on earth, except Vanuatu. It has over 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of just under 6 million.
Papua New Guinea is also one of the least explored countries of the world, culturally and geographically.
The island is one of the few regions close to the equator that experience snowfall, which occurs in the most elevated parts of the mainland.
Until 1933 the country used sea-shells as its national currency. Afterwards, it switched to the Kina.