User:Nomadtales

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An Australian who loves travel, history and general knowledge. Most of my articles will concentrate on geographical locations in Australia or Papua New Guinea, where I have lived for two years though lately I have been diverging off into another interest - rail lines.

Articles I have created .. and like

• Mount Wilhelm (climbed twice)
• Kokoda Track (there existed a previous one, but about the WW2 campaign)
• Paterson (My home town)
• Finger Wharf
• 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake
• Samarai

.. and ones I have expanded

• John Hinde - we miss ya mate.
• Sepik
• Ramu

Did I say travel

My usual home

Australia

Countries I have lived in for more than a year ..

United Kingdom | Papua New Guinea

Spent more than a month in ..

France | Germany | Italy | Vietnam

Less than a month ..

Thailand | Switzerland | Belgium | Austria | Spain | Czech Republic | Slovenia | Turkey | Greece | Norway | Sweden | Russia | China | New Zealand | Indonesia | East Timor | Bulgaria | Albania | Hungary | Ukraine | Romania | Malaysia | Cambodia | Laos

Less than a week ..

Vatican City | Singapore | Luxembourg | Monaco | Portugal | Iceland | Ireland | Denmark | Finland | Mongolia | Montenegro | Croatia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serbia | Slovakia | Poland

More miscellaneous travel I have done is here.

Another hobby .. photography

A Huli Wigman from the Southern Highlands (POTD for July 16 2006)

Gallery of more pics I have uploaded

The wonderful world of Wikipedia (quirky pages I like)

• Drop bears
• The Hairy ball theorem
• Heavy metal umlaut

Current project

User:Nomadtales/Leahy User:Nomadtales/Digul User:Nomadtales/LLG_PNG

Useful links

Photos

PNGAA

Maps

• Topo maps for New Guinea - Uni of Texas

Journals

• The Country between the Headwaters of the Fly and Sepik Rivers in New Guinea
• The Pygmies of the Aiome Mountains, Mandated Territory of New Guinea.
• Exploration of the Kaiserin Augusta River in New Guinea, 1912-13

Railway lines

• NSW lines
• Victorian lines
• Victorian historical line maps
• SA lines