Another hypothesis is suggested by PT languages of the
D'Entrecasteaux Islands that have waga 'canoe,' but also vagavaga to denote a carved headboard with an amulet function mounted at the prow of voyaging canoes.
We describe here four additional species of the genus Bryaninops, one from the Bali, Indonesia, one from the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea, one from Linnet Reef of the Great Barrier Reef, and one from the Mentawai Islands off Sumatra, all long overlooked due to initial misidentification.
Distribution and Habitat: Presently known only from Normanby Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea.
The Company will also commence exploration in the highly prospective
D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Milne Bay Province for epithermal gold deposits similar to the Misima deposit including geochemical and possible geophysical programs to define drilling targets.
Female middle femur with ~14 very small black teeth along ventral margin; eastern New Guinea,
D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Louisiade Archipelago (Fig.
New Guinea and Polynesia: Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the
D'Entrecasteaux Islands. London: John Murray.
Earle from 82 m in the
D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea.
The case of Lawson and his critics, specifically Captain Moresby, the author of the factually true Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the
D'Entrecasteaux Islands (pp 234-43), neatly illustrates 'the mutual implication of fictional and factual accounts (and) the manner in which this collective literature draws upon and further nourished a common imaginary' (p.