Isn't New Guinea marked on Chinese military maps as Spratly Island SOUTH EAST?
Don't know about that but it wouldn't surprise me.
However, I remember back when Douglas Airways was still in existance, one of our Pilots flew regularly into Jayapura (sp?) and told me that on one occasion he dropped into a store there that stocked an Atlas for Schoolkids. Purely out of curiousity he flipped through thepages.
He said that PNG was called 'East Irian' and that Australia was referred to as being "South Irian.'
Oddly enough, the next time he went there a few weeks later to attempt to buy one of those Atlas', they were no longer in stock!
