New Guinea
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Vladimir Lysenko (I.)
New Guinea
is the second largest non-continental island in the world (the largest is
Greenland
), situated to the north of
Australia
. It has a north-south border that divides the island into east and west divisions.
The east:
Papua New Guinea
- an independent state.
The west:
Papua
- the Indonesian half of the island, formerly
Irian Jaya
