Re: [HCDX] Asia - Oceania

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Isn`t Irian Jaya now called Papua, to add to the confusion? And it`s not
western PNG, but western NG. Yet New Guinea is one island, so shouldn`t it all
be in Asia or Oceania? How about putting all these islands into
``Australasia``?

73, Glenn Hauser

--- lim kwet hian <akwet_2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think in world-geography book, PNG is in Oceana group, but what we call 
> Irian-Jaya (western PNG) is part of Indonesian Archipelago, absolutely 
> belonging to Asia, because Indonesia is in south-east Asia region.
> Regards,
> Lim Kwet Hian, Jakarta.
> 
> 
> >From: "Matti Ponkamo" <mattipo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: Matti Ponkamo <oh1gpu@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [HCDX] Asia - Oceania
> >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:31:15 +0200
> >
> >Hi Bjorn,
> >
> >You are correct about PNG belonging to Oceania. But it might be only
> >radiowise, because, for example, the (Finnish) geography books belonging to
> >my 10-, 14-  and 16-yr sons do not recognize Oceania.
> >To my children, PNG is in (Pacific) Asia.
> >We collide with terms every day. Some terms meaning this in one occasion 
> >are
> >that in another.
> >I tend to think as a radio enthusiastic, so PNG is a part of Oceania to me.
> >
> >73 de Matti Ponkamo, Naantali, Finland (KP10AK18)
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006
> > > From: "bjorn fransson" <bjornfransson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [HCDX] PNG
> > >
> > > New Guinea is Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is not Asia either - it is
> > > Oceania
> > > (Pacific) in my geography book.
> > > 73 from Björn
> >
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