The second largest island of Papua New Guinea is New Britain, northeast of the mainland. At 37,800 square kilometers (14,600 square miles), it is only 18% of the size of the island of Great Britain, from which it gets its name. The population is about half a million, and languages spoken include English and Tok Pisin (two national languages of Papua New Guinea) and a few dozen local tongues.
The island is mostly covered by tropical rain forests, some of it being litttle explored. It has several active volcanoes.
In the early 21st Century, a few American cryptozoologists reported a strange flying creature that eyewitnesses have seen in the center of the island. The creature is described like a Pterodactyloid, pterosaur: a beak, no sign of feathers, a short tail, and an appendage at the back of the head (a modern pterosaur).
Do not confuse with the American city of New Britain, Connecticut, or New Britain Township, Pennsylvania. |