The ensuing centuries brought a string of occupiers: the German Empire, Australians and Japan, which seized Bougainville ...

After World War II, Bougainville entered a state of legal limbo as a United Nations Trust Territory. Australia still held administrative responsibility for the island and the neighboring archipelagos.

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s Bougainville Island collection is a snapshot of the island just after WWII. The collection connects the museum and its visitors with the people ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...

The deadline to express interest in the project, which will be built in three phases on Buka Island in Papua New Guinea, is ...

The license spans 261 km2 in the Crown Prince Range of Central Bougainville, approximately nine kilometres southeast from the historic Panguna copper gold mine (Figure 1). The high point of 2024 ...

The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...