ABSTRACT
Papua New Guinea is slightly larger than California, bordering Indonesia with a coastline of the terrain is mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills. The highest point is Mount Wilhelm, the lowest point is the Pacific Ocean. In 1997, the PNG government hired mercenaries to support its troops in Bougainville, sparking an army mutiny. PNG and Bougainville signed a truce in 1997 and a peace agreement in 2001, which granted Bougainville autonomy. The Australian military mapping installations consisted of drafting and computation sections quartered in tents. Map printing services in Queensland were transferred to the US Army 69th Engineer Topographic Battalion’s lithographic detachment in Port Moresby. For the most part, cartographic products of Papua New Guinea have been on the Australian Geodetic Datum of 1966 with its origin at Johnston Cairn.
