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Parama Island (formerly Bampton Island) is an island close off the south coast of Papua New Guinea.[1]

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  1. 20 relations: Australia, Bramble Cay, Coral Sea, Daru, Fly River, Gulf of Papua, Kiwai language, Kiwai Rural LLG, Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea, Luís Vaz de Torres, Mangrove, Papua New Guinea, Points of the compass, Provinces of Papua New Guinea, Queensland, South Fly District, Torres Strait, Torres Strait Islands, United and uniting churches, Western Province (Papua New Guinea).

  2. Torres Strait Islands
  3. Western Province (Papua New Guinea)

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Bramble Cay

Bramble Cay, also known as Maizab Kaur (also spelt Maizub Kaur) and Massaramcoer, is a small cay located at the northeastern edge of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands of Queensland and at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef. Parama Island and Bramble Cay are Torres Strait Islands.

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Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

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Daru

Daru is the capital of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea and a former Catholic bishopric.

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Fly River

The Fly River is the third longest river on the island of New Guinea, after the Sepik River and Mamberamo River, with a total length of. It is the largest by volume of discharge in Oceania, the largest in the world without a single dam in its catchment, and overall the 20th-largest primary river in the world by discharge volume. Parama Island and Fly River are Western Province (Papua New Guinea).

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Gulf of Papua

The Gulf of Papua is located in the southern coast region of New Guinea.

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Kiwai language

Kiwai is a Papuan language, or languages, of southern Papua New Guinea.

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Kiwai Rural LLG

Kiwai Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea has 326 local-level governments (LLGs) comprising 6,112 wards as of 2018.

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Luís Vaz de Torres

Luís Vaz de Torres (Galician and Portuguese), or Luis Váez de Torres in the Spanish spelling (born c. 1565; fl. 1607), was a 16th- and 17th-century maritime explorer of a Spanish expedition noted for the first recorded European navigation of the strait that separates the Australian mainland from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name (Torres Strait).

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.

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Provinces of Papua New Guinea

For administrative purposes, Papua New Guinea is divided into administrative divisions called provinces.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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South Fly District

South Fly District is a district of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes (ˈzen̪ad̪ kes), is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea.

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United and uniting churches

A united church, also called a uniting church, is a denomination formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations, a number of which come from separate and distinct denominational orientations or traditions.

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Western Province (Papua New Guinea)

Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua.

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See also

Torres Strait Islands

Western Province (Papua New Guinea)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parama_Island