First, most of those who perished in the volcanic eruption were local Sangara people, one of a larger group of preliterate Papuans whom the colonists called the ‘Orokaiva’. This means, arguably, that the catastrophe at Lamington was not truly an ‘Australian’ one, and given also that only 35 white people—expatriates from Australia—were killed by the eruption. …
The province of Papua is the easternmost and the largest province in Indonesia. The province comprised of mountains and jungle. It was said that in a time long, long ago there was a mount called Mount Rongkwri in Papua