Harbor of Port
Moresby, Papua New Guinea's
capital city. The harbor was
well established prior to WWII, including the seaplane base. During
the war several ships were important to history, including
the sinking of the MV MacDhui by Japanese air raid. Other nearby
bays in the Port Moresby area: Idlers
Bay, Joyce Bay and Bootless
Bay.
Port Moresby Flying Boat Base (Quantas
Flying Boat Base)
Prewar flyingboat base used by RAAF flyingboats durin the war and postwar. Disused since 1966 when Qantas discontinued service.
Tatana
Island
Small Island in Fairfax Harbor that
American forces built a causeway to the mainland. The causeway was built
by a US Army Negro Engineering Battalion. Tatana is where Liberty Ships
docked and were unloaded. The
causeway was one vehicle wide. Post war
, it was widened.
Napa
Napa (NapaNapa)
Located
halfway down the peninsula, and the far side of Fairfax Harbor,
across from Port Moresby
town. At the start of the war, Napa Napa was a mooring
for RAAF Catalinas. Later,
it serviced RAN and USN small vessels requiring maintenance Port Moresby. By late 1943, the area was developed by the 2nd Australian Engineers servicing watercraft.
In
2002 it was developed as a oil
refinery facility, run by InterOil. At that same time, divers surveying
for the factory discovered a PBY Catalina wreck in the water, one
of two sunk by Japanese Zeros on February 28, 1942 air raid.
