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45 relations: Allies of World War II, Alluvium, Alotau, Anthropology, Archipelago, Austronesian languages, Candoia, Diamond, Ebony, Endemism, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geoscience Australia, Gharial, Gryposuchinae, Guasopa, Guasopa Airport, Holocene, Ikanogavialis, Kiriwina, Kulumadau, Madau, Marshall Bennett Islands, Melanesia, Milne Bay Province, Muyuw language, New Guinea, Nusam, Operation Chronicle, Palm oil, Papua New Guinea, Papuan Tip languages, Pleistocene, Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, Saltwater crocodile, Sea turtle, Seabee, Sirenia, Snake, Solomon Sea, Terrestrial animal, Toxicocalamus, University of Virginia, Venomous snake, World War II.
Allies of World War II
The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).
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Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Alotau
Alotau is the capital of Milne Bay Province, in the south-east of Papua New Guinea.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia.
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Candoia
Candoia is a genus of non-venomous boas found mostly in New Guinea and Melanesia.
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Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.
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Ebony
Ebony is a dense black hardwood, most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus Diospyros, which also contains the persimmons.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Geochemistry
Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.
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Geophysics
Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis.
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Geoscience Australia
Geoscience Australia is an agency of the Australian Government.
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Gharial
The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as the gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae, and is native to the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent.
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Gryposuchinae
Gryposuchinae is an extinct subfamily of gavialid crocodylians.
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Guasopa
Guasopa is a village on Woodlark Island, Milne Bay Province Papua New Guinea.
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Guasopa Airport
Guasopa Airport, is an airport at Guasopa on Woodlark Island, in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Ikanogavialis
Ikanogavialis is an extinct genus of gryposuchine gavialoid crocodilian.
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Kiriwina
Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of 290.5 km².
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Kulumadau
Kulumadau is a large, rural non-village (as per the official 1990 Woodlark Island census) on Woodlark Island, Milne Bay Province Papua New Guinea.
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Madau
Madau is an island of the Woodlark Islands group, in the Solomon Sea and Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Marshall Bennett Islands
Marshall Bennett Islands (also known as the Marshall Bennets) are several islands in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
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Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from New Guinea island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.
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Milne Bay Province
Milne Bay is a province of Papua New Guinea.
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Muyuw language
Muyuw language (Egum, Murua, Murua Dukwayasi, Murua Kaulae, Muruwa, Muyu, Muyua, Muyuwa) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken on the Woodlark Islands, in the Solomon Sea within Papua New Guinea.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.
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Nusam
Nusam Island is an island in Papua New Guinea located in Milne Bay.
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Operation Chronicle
Operation Chronicle was the Allied invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands during World War II, in the South West Pacific as part of Operation Cartwheel.
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Palm oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies 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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Papuan Tip languages
The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (from the Latin Pontificium Institutum Missionum Exterarum) is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities in: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Thailand.
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Saltwater crocodile
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), also known as the estuarine crocodile, Indo-Pacific crocodile, marine crocodile, sea crocodile or informally as saltie, is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest riparian predator in the world.
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Sea turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines.
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Seabee
United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Seabees, form the Naval Construction Force (NCF) of the United States Navy.
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Sirenia
The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
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Solomon Sea
The Solomon Sea is a sea located within the Pacific Ocean.
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Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).
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Toxicocalamus
Toxicocalamus is a genus of snakes in the family Elapidae.
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University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Venomous snake
Venomous snakes are species of the suborder Serpentes that are capable of producing venom, which is used primarily for immobilizing prey and defense mostly via mechanical injection by fangs.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlark_Island
