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Location
Lat
6° 13' 0S Long 155° 37' 60E Town at the base of the Kieta peninsula, on the west coast of
Bougainville. Surrounded by Kieta Harbor and Bakawari Island to the east.
Wartime History
Occupied without resistance by a Japanese Navy SNLF platoon at dawn on March 31, 1942, after they had occupied Shortland the previous morning.
Allied Missions Against Kieta
January 21, 1943 - June 14, 1944
Today
Many
of the buildings and infrastructure was destroyed during the
long Bougainville crisis of the 1990's.
Kieta Airfield
Used by the Japanese during the war. Closed during 'Bougainville Crisis'.
Kieta
Memorial Park
Memorial park at the town's main intersection. Several memorials, guns, a Japanese Type 89 Tank and recovered Zero is displayed on a pole.
Arawa
Lat 6° 13' 0S Long 155° 33' 0E Village to the west of Kieta.
Kekere Plantation
South of Kieta town, past the airport.
Daihatsu Landing Craft
Sunk at Kekere in
Chivaroi (Orawere Bay)
Unknown Japanese Bomber
Crashed on coral reef off Kekere, near Kieta. The propeller was salvaged, and then displayed at Aropa Plantation in the 1970s.
Aropa Plantation
South of Kieta town, near the airport
Kobuan Bay
Bay at Kieta, located to the north of the Kieta Peninsula.
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Last Updated
October 16, 2009
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