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The VERY first landmark I ever learned in PNG was an
individual tree on a ridge line near my home base in the Central Highlands - Chimbu Province. That tree and I developed a very special relationship in bad weather and good (but mostly bad
) over many years....probably 10 years after first having it pointed out to me on my first ever training flight ex Kundiawa, and having used it in anger 100s of times, and just smiled at it in passing 1000s of times, I flew past in a DHC7 to see that the locals had cut it down...I was near incandescent with anger
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Did you advise the authorities of vandalism to a navaid?