Monarchy of Papua New Guinea its Australian parliament and council. The northern area of New Guinea was a territory of the imperial German Crown until Australia seized the area during the First World War. Papua New Guinea (PNG) was toured by Prince Charles (later the Prince of Wales) in 1966, while he was a student in Australia. He returned in 1975 to represent the Queen at PNG's independence celebrations. He then opened the new parliament building in Port Moresby. Monarchy of Papua New Guinea The monarchy of Papua New Guinea is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head
Marienburg, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea in 1942. Bombing and subsequent re-occupation of the town by Allied forces led to the destruction of the sawmill, houses and church constructed there. These were rebuilt and, by the 1960s the area had a thriving milling business again. Shortly before independence in 1975, labour disputes led to the mismanagement and decline of the business and ultimately all industry ceased there. Marienburg, Papua New Guinea A town located near the mouth of the Sepik River in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. In 1913, in what was then German New Guinea, missionaries of the Catholic