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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP New Guinea (Oceania / Melanesia / Papua New Guinea / Western Province)New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5000 BC. The name Papua has also been long-associated with the island: this is discussed further under "History", below. Star Mountains (Oceania / Micronesia)Star Mountains is a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea, stretching from the border with Indonesia, at about to the Hindenburg Range. They have an annual rainfall of more than 10,000 mm/year. Hindenburg Range (Oceania / Melanesia / Papua New Guinea / Western Province)Hindenburg Range is a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea, stretching from the Star Mountains to the east, at about . | ||