New Guinea: The Last Frontier - Card 10 - Aircraft in New Guinea

Card number 10 of 24. Text says

10. Aircraft in New Guinea
Small aircraft, like the Twin otter, have been one of the major factors in opening up the territory. Here natives and European engineers work alongside to service an aircraft engine at Lae Airport.

Lae township is apparently the second largest town in Paupua New Guinea. As of 2000 the population was about 72000. Which in the greater scheme of things is not so many. The country is still very wild, and to a large degree inaccessible dur to the heavy rainforerst. Local conditions have earned the town the nickname "Pothole City" 

According to Malum Nalu...

World attention was focused on Lae in 1937, and continues to this day, when it was the last port of called for the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart before she disappeared somewhere over the deep-blue South Pacific ocean.

 The video below show just how lush and green the country is...

And an example of one of the larger planes in use at the airport...

Large parts of Papua New Guinea are unexplored, although deforestation and mineral exploitation are making their sad impact on this wild landscape.