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New Guinea is the second-largest island in the world, covering about 785,753 square kilometres in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It lies in Melanesia and is separated from Australia by the 150-kilometre-wide Torres Strait, although both landmasses share one continental shelf and were joined as the combined landmass of Sahul during the low sea levels of the Pleistocene glaciations. The island holds the third-largest remaining rainforest on Earth and the highest plant biodiversity of any island. Its eastern half is the main land mass of Papua New Guinea, while the western half, known as Western New Guinea, belongs to Indonesia and is organised into six provinces. Port Moresby and Jayapura are its two major cities. A Spanish explorer named it in 1545 because its indigenous peoples seemed to resemble those of the African region of Guinea.

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Highest Elevation (m)
4884 1
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Source New Guinea (Wikipedia)
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Source Sugarcane (Wikipedia)Lead, first paragraph
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It is native to New Guinea.

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Source SeaLifeBase: SeaLifeBase: Sousa sahulensis summaryDistribution
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Eastern Indian Ocean: from northern Australia to southern New Guinea.

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Source Black-spotted cuscus (Wikipedia)Lead, where it lives
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It is a relatively colourful species found in forests of northern New Guinea.

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Source Brown goshawk (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, range
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The brown goshawk is widespread through Australia, Wallacea, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.

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Source Bulmer's fruit bat (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
Quote, Distribution, New Guinea
Bulmer's fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) is a megabat endemic to New Guinea.

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Source Common blossom bat (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
Quote, Distribution, New Guinea
They are found in the Maluku Islands, Salawati, Biak, Yapen, New Guinea, the Aru Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, Manus Island, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, the Louisiade Archipelago, New South Wales, Australia, and eastern Queensland, Australia.

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Source Common spotted cuscus (Wikipedia)Lead
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The common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.

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Source Animal Diversity Web: DasyuromorphiaGeographic Range: "The order Dasyuromorphia is restricted to Austra"
Quote, Geographic Range: "The order Dasyuromorphia is restricted to Austra"
The order Dasyuromorphia is restricted to Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and some small nearby islands.

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Source Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
Quote, Distribution, New Guinea
It is found on both sides of New Guinea.

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Source Geelvink Bay flying fox (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
Quote, Distribution, New Guinea
It is endemic to the islands of Yapen, Numfor, and Rani, which lie north of New Guinea in Indonesia's Papua Province.

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Source Ground cuscus (Wikipedia)Habitats, where it lives
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The ground cuscus is endemic to New Guinea and Aru Islands

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Source Hemiscyllium henryi (Wikipedia)Lead
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geographically restricted to New Guinea and northern Australia

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Source Long-nosed paramelomys (Wikipedia)Lead
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endemic to New Guinea

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Source Long-tongued nectar bat (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
Quote, Distribution, New Guinea
Its wide geographical range includes Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, southern Philippines, Java, Borneo, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northern Australia.

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Source Moss-forest blossom bat (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
Quote, Distribution, New Guinea
The moss-forest blossom bat (Syconycteris hobbit) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in New Guinea.

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Source Mountain cuscus (Wikipedia)Lead, where it lives
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found throughout the central mountain ranges and Huon Peninsula of New Guinea

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Source Mountain swiftlet (Wikipedia)Lead, range
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It is endemic to the island of New Guinea and the nearby islands of Karkar, Yapen and Goodenough.

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Source Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat (Wikipedia)Distribution, New Guinea
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It is endemic to New Guinea island and to New Britain Island.

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Source Northern common cuscus (Wikipedia)Lead
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The northern common cuscus (Phalanger orientalis), also known as the gray cuscus, is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae native to northern New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands

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Source Northern mangrove seasnake (Wikipedia)Lead, range of New Guinea
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The species is native to Australia and New Guinea.

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Source Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat (Wikipedia)Distribution
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It is endemic to the island of New Guinea where it is present from sea level to altitudes of about 2,200 metres (7,200 ft).

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Source Rothschild's birdwing (Wikipedia)Lead
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endemic to the Arfak Mountains in Western New Guinea

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Source Rothschild's woolly rat (Wikipedia)Lead, range
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It is found on the island of New Guinea: both in the West Papua region of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

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Source Silky cuscus (Wikipedia)Habitat
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The silky cuscus is found in abundance across high elevations in the central mountains of the island of New Guinea, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

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Source Spilocuscus (Wikipedia)Lead, geographic distribution
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Its members are found on the Cape York Peninsula of Australia, New Guinea, and smaller nearby islands.

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Source Three-toed swiftlet (Wikipedia)Lead
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It is found in New Guinea.
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1. New Guinea (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox: elevation_m
    4,884
  • On Continent: Australia, Lead, second paragraph
    though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf
  • Part Of: Papua New Guinea, Lead, third paragraph
    The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the nation of Papua New Guinea.
  • Part Of: Indonesia, Lead, third paragraph
    forms a part of Indonesia
  • Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Full text, geology
    Geologically it is a part of the same tectonic plate as Australia.
  • In Group: Marine and Coastal Landforms (World), Lead, first sentence
    is the world's second-largest island
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