Penetration Of Unknown
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Papua
“W E had a very interesting flight to 7? Lake Kutubu, in the uncontrolled area, last month”, says a Papuan official, in a private letter.
“The lake itself is as beautiful as Lake Windermere, and the other English lakes. The shores are not swampy and grass-fringed, such as one might expect, but are as clear-cut as the shores of Neutral Bay, Sydney. I found it hard to realise that I was not standing on a salt-water shore.
“There are five officers of the Papuan Administration now at this new station on Lake Kutubu, and they use the lake as a base from which to make patrols into the uncontrolled area”.
This is an indication of the manner in which the administration of Papua is steadily extending Government control over the hitherto unknown interior — still marked on the latest maps as un explored and uncontrolled.