Qualla: Kainantu https://qualla.com/kainantu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/z/s/kainantu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kainantu https://qualla.com/kainantu Kainantu: Introduction https://qualla.com/kainantu/ Photo credit Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Kainantu Golf Club was established in 1958 by a Mines Department officer named Neville Robinson, called Robbie by everyone who knew him. It is one of the two oldest golf courses in Papua New Guinea. The fairways were built along ridge crests because ridges were what Kainantu had - narrow and sloping, with gardens and roads crowding the edges. Low scores are rare. The course survived colonial rule, independence, and the arrival of a Chinese-owned gold mine. Its trees did not all survive; some were uprooted, and others were ringed and cut at night for firewood. The club endures anyway, because Kainantu is that kind of town: stubborn, improvised, and stitched together from whatever the highlands offer.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/z/s/kainantu-wp/rnzs-kainantu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kainantu: A Town on the Highway https://qualla.com/kainantu/ Photo credit Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kainantu sits about 170 kilometers west of the port of Lae, on the Highlands Highway that carries coffee down from the mountains and cargo up into them. The town holds the basic machinery of a district center - school, hospital, police station, courthouse, service stations - alon...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/z/s/kainantu-wp/rnzs-kainantu-a-town-on-the-highway.mp3 0:06 2 full Kainantu: The Gadsup and the Lutherans https://qualla.com/kainantu/ Photo credit Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first outsiders to reach the Kainantu area were the Lutheran missionaries Pilhofer and Bergmann in 1929, followed a year later by the Australian prospectors Mick Leahy and Mick Dwyer. The Gadsup people had lived on this plateau for generations, their villages spread across a ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/z/s/kainantu-wp/rnzs-kainantu-the-gadsup-and-the-lutherans.mp3 0:06 3 full Kainantu: Gold and Coffee https://qualla.com/kainantu/ Photo credit Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0. Alluvial gold was discovered near Kainantu around 1930 by two prospectors, E. Ubank and N. Rowlands. The find was never as rich as the Edie Creek strike at Wau-Bulolo, and Kainantu never drew the stampede of prospectors that transformed other parts of the territory. By World War ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/z/s/kainantu-wp/rnzs-kainantu-gold-and-coffee.mp3 0:06 4 full Kainantu: The Kiap Era https://qualla.com/kainantu/ Photo credit Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before independence in 1975, the highlands were run by kiaps - patrol officers with sweeping authority who served as judge, jury, road-builder, and often magistrate. Graham Pople was one such kiap, later elected to the first Papua and New Guinea House of Assembly in 1964. He desc...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/z/s/kainantu-wp/rnzs-kainantu-the-kiap-era.mp3 0:06 5 full Kainantu: A Plateau Between Rivers https://qualla.com/kainantu/ Photo credit Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0. The plateau Kainantu sits on is a geological accident that became a human one. At between 2,300 and 2,450 meters, it forms the watershed between rivers flowing north to the Markham-Ramu trough and those flowing south to the Papuan coast. The bedrock is Palaeozoic, overlain by you...

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