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Isn't it still hundreds of kilometers from the mainland?

The straight of Gibraltar is 10km and barely any Europeans have anything more than superficial knowledge about North-African cultures.

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The closest land to PNG in Australia is nearly uninhabited. Northern Queensland may as well be on the Moon. Cape York Peninsula has a population of only 18,000 people! Northern Alaska has significantly more, as a point of comparison.

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