Papua New Guinea Land and Property

Pacific Papua New Guinea

Land Records

 * Tochi Daicho (Japanese Land Records) Available for Keyngel, Ngaraad, Ngatpang, Ngchesar, Ngerchelong, Ngeremlengui, Ngiwal, Melekeok, and Peleliu
 * Microfilmed in Trust Territory Archives (Reel 490) available at United States National Archives, Hamilton TT Archives, University of Hawaii, Manoa and Micronesia Area Research Center, University of Guam
 * Translated into English and indexed, available at Department of Lands and Surveys, Koror, Palau

Homestead Records

 * Digitized and indexed, available at Department of Lands and Surveys, Koror

Land Claims
Record type: Land claims based on family and tradition, tenancy and tax records.

Time Period: 1950-present. Content: Land claimants’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of residence, land descriptions, fathers’ names and sometimes names of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition.

Location: National Archives, municipal archives.

Population coverage: 40%.

Reliability: Good.

Research use: Primarily for family relationships and to extend lineage beyond other existing records.