History of Papua New Guinea History of Papua New Guinea The attack on Rabaul was a campaign of Allied air raids against the Japanese base at Rabaul in October and November 1943. It was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Attack on Rabaul"
The Battle of Buna-Gona was a battle in the Pacific campaign of World War II. On November 16, 1942, Australian and United States forces began to attack the main Japanese beachheads in New Guinea, at Buna, Sanananda and Gona. By January 22, 1943, the Allied forces had achieved their objective of isolating Japanese forces in eastern New Guinea and cutting off their main line of supply. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Buna-Gona"
The Battle of Milne Bay was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese marines attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea on August 25, 1942 and fighting continued until the Japanese retreated on September 5, 1942. The battle was the first in the Pacific campaign in which Allied troops defeated Japanese land forces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Milne Bay"
The Battle of Rabaul, around the main town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain, in early February 1942, represented a strategically-significant defeat of Allied forces by Japan, in the Pacific campaign of World War II. Following the capture of Rabaul, Japanese forces turned it into a major base and proceeded to land on mainland New Guinea, advancing towards Port Moresby and Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Rabaul (1942)"
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was a battle in the Pacific Campaign of World War II, between planes of the US Fifth Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force, and a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lae. The task force was destroyed in detail, and the Japanese troops losses were extremely high. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of the Bismarck Sea"
Bougainville Copper Ltd is a copper gold and silver mining company that operated the Panguna open cut mine in Bougainville. It dominated the economy of the island in the 1970s and 1980s and even played a large part in the economy of Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bougainville Copper Limited"
Franz Boluminski ( 1863- 28 April, 1913) was born in Graudenz, Province of West Prussia in 1863. He served in the German Army in German East Africa and in 1894 went to work for the German New Guinea Company at Astrolab Bay near modern day Madang in Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Franz Boluminski"
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The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels are a group of Papua New Guinean people who during World War II assisted and escorted injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail. The term Fuzzy Wuzzy had come into use during the eighteenth century and referred to the frizzy hair of the Papuans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fuzzy wuzzy angels"
German New Guinea ( Ger. Deutsch-Neuguinea) was a German protectorate from 1884 to 1914, consisting of the northeastern part of New Guinea and several nearby island groups. ...more on Wikipedia about "German New Guinea"
Bougainville is a province of Papua New Guinea. It was named after the French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Bougainville"
The first Europeans to sight New Guinea were probably the Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific in the early part of the 16th century. In 1526-27, Don Jorge de Meneses accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it Papua, a Malay word for the frizzled quality of Melanesian hair. The term New Guinea was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Yñigo Ortiz de Retez, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Papua New Guinea"
Kaiser-Wilhelmsland was the north-eastern part of New Guinea. It was under Germany's control from 1884 until World War I when it made up the largest portion of German New Guinea. After Germany's defeat, it was combined with British New Guinea to form Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kaiser-Wilhelmsland"
The Kokoda Track Campaign or Kokoda Trail Campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought from July 1942 to January 1943 between Japanese and Australian forces in the Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea. In the United States and official Australian Army battle-honours listings the term Kokoda Trail is often used instead. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kokoda Track Campaign"
Maroubra Force was the name given to the Australian infantry force that defended Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from the Japanese during the Kokoda Track Campaign of the Pacific War, World War II. It was one of many units forming the body of New Guinea Force, the main Allied army formation in the South West Pacific Area during 1942. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maroubra Force"
Michael (Mick) James Leahy ( 26 February 1901 - 7 March 1979) was an explorer who published widely about, photographed and filmed many of his travels. Although born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, he spent most of his adult life in Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mick Leahy"
The New Guinea campaign was one of the major military campaigns of World War II. Fighting in the Australian mandated Territory of New Guinea (the north-eastern part of the island of New Guinea and surrounding islands) and Dutch New Guinea, between Allied and Japanese forces, commenced with the Japanese assault on Rabaul on January 23, 1942. Rabaul became the forward base for the Japanese campaigns in mainland New Guinea, including the pivotal Kokoda Track campaign of July 1942-January 1943. The New Guinea campaign continued until the war ended, in August 1945. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Guinea campaign"
After Queensland's annexation of part of eastern New Guinea, German interest in the area grew. In 1884, the New Guinea Company was founded in Berlin for the purpose of colonising and exploiting resources on the island. Its influence soon grew to encompass the entire north-eastern part of New Guinea and some of the islands off the coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Guinea Company"
The Ok Tedi Mine is located near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi, a river in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Mine operations are responsible for one of the worst human-induced environmental disasters in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ok Tedi Mine"
The Territory of Papua was an Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949. It had previously been administered from London as British New Guinea. The territory now forms the southern part of Papua New Guinea, and makes up roughly half of that country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Papua (Australian territory)"
The Sandline affair was a political scandal that became one of the defining moments in the history of Papua New Guinea, and particularly that of the conflict in Bougainville. It brought down the government of Sir Julius Chan, and took Papua New Guinea to the verge of military revolt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sandline affair"
Sandline International was a private security ('military') company based in London, established in the early 1990s. It was involved in conflicts in Papua New Guinea in 1997 (having a contract with the government under Julius Chan), in 1998 in Sierra Leone (having a contract with illegally ousted President Kabbah) causing the Sandline affair and in Liberia in 2003 (in a rebel attempt to evict the then-president Charles Taylor near the end of the civil war). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sandline International"
Territory of New Guinea was the name given to the Australia-controlled, League of Nations-mandated territory in the north eastern part of the island of New Guinea, and surrounding islands, between 1920 and 1949. The south-eastern part of the island of New Guinea, was a separate Australian colony, the Territory of Papua, until 1949. ...more on Wikipedia about "Territory of New Guinea"
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