New Guinea

"New Guinea, no? It seems that it's a gateway to... the Southern Hemisphere, a place of extraordinary seasonal cycles... can't believe it's under attack by Chinese forces, wasn't it?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, Terrorized in New Guinea

New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea; German: Neuguinea; Indonesian: Papua or, historically, Irian) is a large island in Oceania. It is the world's second-largest island (if excluding Australia as an island), after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.