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]
Brahman | |
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| Location | Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Time zone | AEST (+10) |
| Elevation AMSL | 420 ft / 128 m |
| Coordinates | 5°42′00″S 145°22′01″E / 5.7°S 145.367°E |
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  Brahman Location within Papua New Guinea | |
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The land around Brahman is diverse. The highest local point is 1,644 meters, 9 km west of Brahman.[note 1] There are 12 people per square kilometer around Brahman.[3] The area is surrounded by forest.[4]
The climate is tropical.[5] The average temperature was 22 °C. The warmest month is August, at 24 °C, and the coolest is February, at 19 °C.[6] 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.[7]
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edit- ^ Brahman at Geonames.org (cc-by); post updated 2012-05-18; database download 2015-06-22
- ^ "Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model". 2015-06-21.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L. "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ a b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. Retrieved 30 January 2016.