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Islands Monthly

January, 1961

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Vol. Xxxi. No. 6.

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The Goroka Monster

This could be an advertisement for a malaria suppressive; or some fabulous giant insect out of an H. G. Wells' peep into the future. It's nothing more sinister, however, than a freak photographic accident.

The town is Goroka, NG Eastern Highlands; opinion is divided over the monster that menaces it. Some say it's a mosquito; but the man who took the photograph, the Rev. Father Mike Bodnar, says it's a wasp. Father Mike took the photo from the observation point behind Goroka, but when he developed the roll of film he was amazed to see the huge insect emerge on the negative. At first he thought he was seeing things, but when he examined his camera closely he found that a small insect had not in and managed it stick itself onto the lens.