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Posted by tubularbills on Apr-04-2010 06:09:

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Its in Africa

so Africans flocked to an island on the other side of the Indian ocean for a new settlement????

Posted by Sushipunk on Apr-04-2010 06:19:

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Originally posted by tubularbills
so Africans flocked to an island on the other side of the Indian ocean for a new settlement????

It's more likely that the English named it that, possibly because it reminded them of Guinea in Africa.

Posted by Trance Nutter on Apr-04-2010 06:32:

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Originally posted by Sushipunk
It's more likely that the English named it that, possibly because it reminded them of Guinea in Africa.

Actually the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese all were the main explorers of that region well before the English (they even discovered Australia hundreds of years before the English), so more likely it was one of them.

Posted by Sushipunk on Apr-04-2010 06:34:

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Actually the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese all were the main explorers of that region well before the English (they even discovered Australia hundreds of years before the English), so more likely it was one of them.

Good point.

Posted by tubularbills on Apr-04-2010 06:44:

a tropical island reminded the explorers of Africa!?!??!

Posted by Trance Nutter on Apr-04-2010 06:49:

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Originally posted by tubularbills
a tropical island reminded the explorers of Africa!?!??!

Africa isn't only deserts you know.

Posted by tubularbills on Apr-04-2010 07:03:

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Africa isn't only deserts you know.

yes, i'm well aware of Africa's massive landscape. but nothing....NOTHING i would think would remind me of that continent on a tropical island.

ok, maybe madagascar.

i don't know, i've never been to either place; i'm just really REALLY curious about this whole thing for some stupid reason.

Posted by tubularbills on Apr-04-2010 07:19:

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In 1545 the Spaniard Y�igo Ortiz de Retez sailed along the north coast of New Guinea as far as the Mamberamo River near which he landed, naming the island 'Nueva Guinea'. The first map showing the whole island (as an island) was published in 1600 and shows it as 'Nova Guinea'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea

(yea yea, i know it's wiki; but whatev)

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