Central Papua
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Another Patrol Through Central Papua Mr. Claude Champion To Visit Lake Kutubu
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Apr. 19.
T-HE Administration has despatched * another expedition to explore Central Papua.
Mr. Claude Champion, A.R.M., who has been stationed at Daru, left on April 17 for a patrol from Kikori (in the Delta Division) across the Limestone Barrier to the newly discovered Lake Kutubu.
Kutubu was visited by the Champion- Adamson patrol in October last year from the Leonard Murray Mountains.
On his recently completed patrol, Mr.
Ivan Champion made investigations which clearly showed that a trade route existed from the Kikori River to Lake Kutubu.
It is to seek and examine this track that Mr. Claude Champion, who is accom panied by Patrol Officer F. W. G. Ander son, has undertaken the patrol They will endeavour to find where the trade route extends, and whether it serves valleys leading to what has become known as the
“Papuan Wonderland.”