Talk:Bougainville

Formatting and language conventions For articles about Bougainville, please use the 12-hour clock to show times, e.g. 9AM-noon and 6PM-midnight. Please show prices in this format: K100 and not 100 kina, 100k, 100K nor PRK100. Note that the Bougainville Kina is not an legal currency, and so the currency should be referring to the PNG Kina. Please use Australian spelling (colour, realise, program, centre, labour (but Labor Party), analog).

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I am not sure why Bougainville is breadcrumbed as part of the Solomon Islands? I believe it is now officially an autonomous region, but from a travel point of view, it remains for all intents and purposes part of Papua New Guinea, as it was historically before the civil war. I will change the IsPartOf tag to reflect that. If anyone disagrees, please explain why here. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 23:18, 30 April 2010 (EDT)

No paved roads? Not correct.

As one of the children of a CRA executive, I went to school in Arawa in 1974. There were asphalt roads in and around Arawa through to Panguna and Kieta. Although some of them are in disrepair today, many of them are still there, and are navigable as roads similar to remote country Australia. For verification see - http://www.riverbendnelligen.com/bougainville11.html.

Cheers Mark Vincent.

Please do plunge forward and make the necessary edits. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 03:11, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

Bougainville Kina

Should it be specified that the Bougainville Kina isn't a valid currency in Bougainville? Am thinking of adding it after reading this from the Papua New Guinean government. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:23, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

As is often the case with disputed territories and secession movements, we need knowledge of the on-the-ground situation, not just the official line. Is the Bougainville kina widely accepted? Or will trying to use it get you dirty looks? Or both depending on location? The article you linked suggests it's somewhere in between, but that's from 2016 which is a long time ago (three years before the referendum). —Granger (talk · contribs) 13:08, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Here is an article from Nov 2020. King Peii II is still around, and the article mentions him printing money to pay his followers, although it does not say if that is still happening. On the basis of this article, I would say that travellers may still, come across Bougainville kina. Ground Zero (talk) 13:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Format box

I've added a format box. Does that work out? --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:33, 21 December 2021 (UTC)