sentences:  Jack Hides, Australian government patrol officer and explorer, would refer to it as the "Papuan Wonderland", the title of his book about official patrols he led into the heart of this dangerous and uncharted territory in the 1930s.The Southern Highlands is the last area of the highlands to welcome the dawn of recorded history.But now, in just half a century, it has progressed from a Stone Age existence to the Space and Computer Age.