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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 7

In Unexplored Ng

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

Seen by a European patrol for the first time in December, this waterfall drops 600 ft. on the Madang side of the Bis marck Ranges of NG. Patrol Officer Barry Griffin and Sydney journalist Gav.n Souter (who took this photograph), climbed to the top but were unable to see how many leaps the fall made in that distance. One day—perhaps a long way off—it may be a tourist attracts.

NG has many fascinating waterfal's that have difficult access. One, at the source of the Kanu River, Central New Britain, roars out of a great limestone cavern in the side of a mountain, and later leaps 200 ft.