What a great surprise card ..Thanks Charlie and Anne .Really appreciate your kind thoughts finding and sending this card to me on your busy trip...such a really different destination...and imagine it must have been really interesting ..was a bummer that the post Office had no stamps..Wow...what a great destination..This is my first card from any of these Islands and I thank you mate..
THE CONFICT GROUP .:Located in Oceania.and is an atoll in Papua New Guinea and is part of the group of Islands in the Louisiade Archipeligo. in The Solomon Sea.The Islands are under the administration of The Papuan New Guinea Government. This group of Islands were first sighted in 1879 by the HMS Cormorant. by moonlight and wasafter named in 1880 by "Bower" The Captain of HMS Conflict. "Irai Island" is the center of population of the group the small " Panasea Island" has an eco-resort with a small staff. The ethnic groups on the Islands consist of Papauans , Melansians and Austronesians.
MHS Coflict: was a schooner of the Royal Navy built by John Cuthbert at Millers Point New South Wales (just by the Sydney Harbour Bridge today) and was launched on the 11th February 1873.
information courtesy of Wikipedia.
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