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jOORT MORESBY bids fair to become in its own right an aerial A crossroads of the Pacific. More aircraft will put their noses down at Jackson’s Airport as travellers take advantage of new Pacific traffic patterns, which now make it possible for them to get in and out of New Guinea from Manila and Hong Kong in the north, from the south via Sydney, and from the east via the Solomons and Fiji. In October, for instance, Qantas 707 jets increased their services from Sydney to Hong Kong via Port Moresby to two a week, both ways. There is plenty to look at for all these new travellers to the big Australian territory, population two million, as the pictures overleaf show.

Local life is colourful, and styles of dress can be depended upon to differ widely.

That's part of the territory's charm. It's shell that is being worn at right.

Papua-New Guinea's main towns have their differences too. At top is hilly Port Moresby by the Coral Sea, and below, flat Lae, spreading around its airstrip on the shores of the Huon Gulf. Above right are pig jaws and a human skull near an outpost at Telefomin, in the Sepik.

Telefomin can be reached by air.

From west to east. Top, the harbour at Vanimo, near the Indonesian border. Below, the volcano ringed harbour of Rabau main town on New Britain. At right is part of the road to the Highlands as it climbs up from the Markham Valley.