The Ogea are a tribe of approximately 700 people living in an area 18 kilometers south of the town of Madang, in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.  The Ogea live in four villages—Garima, Dogia, Balama, and Erima, bounded by the Golgol and Yawor rivers, and the Astrolabe Bay.  Ethnically, the Ogea are Melanesians.  The first recorded contact with the Ogea by a European was likely made by the Russian scientist, Miloucho-Maclay, who describes visits to several Ogea villages between 1871 and 1883 in his diary.

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