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Trobriand

Trobriand Islands
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About Trobriand

The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre (174-square-mile) archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the nation of Papua New Guinea and are in Milne Bay Province. Most of the population of 60,000 (2016) indigenous inhabitants live on the main island of Kiriwina, which is also the location of the government station, Losuia.

On the show · 3 mentions total

I'm just gonna use state yams yeah yeah in the Trobriand island the yam harvest is so important that everyone would get.

from No Such Thing As Alfred Hedgehog, 2026-10-01 at 00:48:45 · read transcript

Other times Trobriand came up

  1. It's yam jenga yes that's cool they have those in the Trobriand islands as well which is near Papua New Guinea.

    No Such Thing As Alfred Hedgehog, 2026-10-01 · listen

  2. Up the good schools in the area that's what they do in the Trobriand islands yeah the good yam guide because you were.

    No Such Thing As Alfred Hedgehog, 2026-10-01 · listen

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Coordinates: -8.6667, 150.9167

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