Kikori

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Kikori
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Kikori
Location within Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 7°25′S144°14′E / 7.417°S 144.233°E / -7.417; 144.233
Country Papua New Guinea
Province Gulf Province
LLG Kikori District
Elevation
12 m (39 ft)
Time zone UTC+10 (AEST)
Location
  • 179 km (111 mi) north-north-west of Kerema
  • 217 km (135 mi) north-east of Daru
Mean min temp22 °C (72 °F)
Annual rainfall5,840 mm (229.9 in)
Climate Af

Kikori is a small town in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea. [1]

Contents

Kikori lies in the delta of the Kikori River at the head of the Gulf of Papua. This area is particularly biologically rich with a diversity of ecosystems and densely forested, with an intricate system of rivers. The geography is that of limestone karst country, with clay type soils. Oil exploitation in Kikori has been operating for several years. Its first commercial oil deposits were found there by the Kutubu Joint Venture (KJV) which has since constructed a pipeline to the Gulf of Papua and is actively extracting oil from the region. [2]

It is the site of Kikori Airport.

Climate

Kikori has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with very heavy rainfall year-round. Temperatures in Kikori are uniformly hot and humidity extremely uncomfortable.

The town has an average annual rainfall of around 5,700 millimetres or 220 inches, [3] making it and surrounding Gulf Province one of the wettest lowland places on Earth – comparable to the Chocó of Colombia, the exposed monsoonal coasts of Myanmar, the Caribbean Coast of Central America, and the Alaska Panhandle. Rainfall averages at least 250 millimetres or 10 inches during every month of the year, but orographic lifting of the southeast trade winds between May and September creates a rainfall peak in those months which average over 550 millimetres or 20 inches – twice as much as the least wet months of November and December and a striking contrast to the rainlessness of those same trade winds in relatively nearby Northern Australia.

Climate data for Kikori
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Average high °C (°F)32.1
(89.8)
31.6
(88.9)
31.2
(88.2)
30.4
(86.7)
29.4
(84.9)
28.6
(83.5)
26.7
(80.1)
28.0
(82.4)
28.4
(83.1)
29.5
(85.1)
31.7
(89.1)
32.2
(90.0)
30.0
(86.0)
Daily mean °C (°F)26.6
(79.9)
26.4
(79.5)
26.1
(79.0)
25.9
(78.6)
25.3
(77.5)
24.8
(76.6)
23.6
(74.5)
24.4
(75.9)
24.5
(76.1)
25.0
(77.0)
26.6
(79.9)
27.0
(80.6)
25.5
(77.9)
Average low °C (°F)21.2
(70.2)
21.3
(70.3)
21.1
(70.0)
21.4
(70.5)
21.2
(70.2)
21.1
(70.0)
20.5
(68.9)
20.9
(69.6)
20.7
(69.3)
20.5
(68.9)
21.5
(70.7)
21.9
(71.4)
21.1
(70.0)
Average rainfall mm (inches)342
(13.5)
372
(14.6)
331
(13.0)
405
(15.9)
649
(25.6)
677
(26.7)
658
(25.9)
566
(22.3)
599
(23.6)
464
(18.3)
262
(10.3)
286
(11.3)
5,611
(220.91)
Source: Climate-Data.org [4]

See also

Notes

  1. Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 592
  2. "Kikori Basin, Papua New Guinea". WWF Panda. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
  3. Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 592
  4. "Climate: Kikori". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 19 October 2020.

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