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Madang

Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

June-August, 1997

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All photographs are, of course, protected by Copyright (© Shane Paterson, 1997).

Wreck of a USAAF B-25 bomber that was shot down in August, 1943

I took both this photograph and the one above on August 4, 1997, the 54^th anniversary of the bomber's downing.

Large sponge, deep on the fore-reef slope

Reef cuttlefish

Crinoid on sea fan

Redlined sea cucumber

Scalloped hammerhead shark

Gray reef sharks

Bluespotted fantail stingray

Barbed tail of a bluespotted fantail stingray

Reef lizardfish

Trumpetfish on B-25 wreck

Red firefish

Crocodilefish

Bluefin trevally

Bigeye barracuda

Pickhandle barracuda

Painted sweetlips

Redfin butterflyfish

Raccoon butterflyfish

Teardrop butterflyfish

Longnose butterflyfish

Yellowmask angelfish

Flame angelfish

Pink anemonefish

Orangefin anemonefish

Clown anemonefish (clownfish)

Spawning clownfish

Baby clownfish

Clark's anemonefish

Saddleback anemonefish

Male saddleback anemonefish checks eggs

Whitebonnet anemonefish

Orange anemonefish

Spinecheek anemonefish

Freckled hawkfish

Bumphead parrotfish

Collette's blenny — known only from Madang Lagoon

Elongate surgeonfish

Vlaming's unicornfish

Clown triggerfish

Map pufferfish

Blacksaddled pufferfish

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