Brahman, Papua New Guinea Explained

Brahman
Iata:BRH
Location: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province
Timezone:AEST
Utc:+10
Elevation-M:128
Coordinates:-5.7°N 145.367°W
Pushpin Map:Papua New Guinea
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Papua New Guinea
Pushpin Label Position:right

Brahman is a cattle station supplied with an airport near the eastern highlands of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located 500 km north of Port Moresby and is 128 meters above sea level.[1]

The land around Brahman is diverse. The highest local point is 1,644 meters, 9 km west of Brahman. There are 12 people per square kilometer around Brahman.[2] The area is surrounded by forest.[3]

The climate is tropical.[4] The average temperature was 22 °C. The warmest month is August, at 24 °C, and the coolest is February, at 19 °C.[5] Average rainfall is 346.7 cm per year. The rainiest month is March, at 43.1 cm, and the least is August, at 15.5 cm.[6]

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  1. Brahman
  2. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Population Density. 30 January 2016. NASA/SEDAC. 9 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160209064446/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=SEDAC_POP. dead.
  3. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification. 30 January 2016. NASA/MODIS. 28 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160228161657/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MCD12C1_T1. dead.
  4. Peel. M C. Finlayson. B L. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11. 1633–1644. 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. 30 January 2016. free.
  5. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016. NASA. 11 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075542/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
  6. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 30 January 2016 . NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission.