What is this story about?
New Guinea
What is that?
an island
Where?
in Oceania
What country is it in?
Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
Is New Guinea the only name?
no
What is one?
"Papua
What language is that?
Tidore
What  words is it derived from?
"papo" and "ua"
What does papo mean?
to unite
What does ua mean?
negation
What does the word mean when you put the two together?
not united
Why is it called that?
it is territory that geographically is far away
In 1993 who speculated on a different translation?
Sollewijn Gelpke
What did he come up with?
The idea that the name comes from a Biak phrase
What phrase?
sup i papwa
What does that mean?
the land below
What does it refer to?
the islands west of the Bird's Head
As far as where?
Halmahera
Who associated it with Halmahera?
the Portuguese
When
during the era of their colonization