New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Friends would ask what research had taken me to Malaysia or New Guinea or Pakistan, since it was obvious that nobody would go to these places merely for recreation."

"In fact, the velociraptor conveyed precisely the same impression of deadly, swift menace Grant had seen in the cassowary, the clawed ostrich-like bird of New Guinea."

"Off the coast of New Guinea. North of Australia."

"Ann said, “Where are we going?” … “To an island off the coast of New Guinea.”"

"“New Guinea?”"

"“Where’d you learn Pidgin?” “New Guinea. I worked there a year.”"

"…following the devastating New Guinea earthquake of 1998—the single most destructive tsunami of the century—which also did not have the classic slow tsunami profile."

"…and to Wallace of some of the Aru Island tribes near New Guinea..."

"Meanwhile, all during this time New Guinea highlanders in the 20th century continued to eat the brains of their enemies until they were finally made to understand that they risked kuru, a fatal neurological disease, when they did so."