The Frieda River is a tributary near the remote headwaters of Papua New Guinea's Sepik River, perhaps the most significant inland waterway in the Pacific.
The Sepik River takes an unhurried 1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles, to snake from the lush highland rainforests of western Papua New Guinea, swerving momentarily across the border into Indonesia’s Papua province, before wending out to the mangroves abutting the Bismarck Sea on the northern coast of New Guinea Island. Along the way, the river […]