Tavui Point

Lat 4° 8'3.69"S  Lat 152° 9'58.48"E  Located at the northern tip of the Gazelle Peninsula. Also known as 'Submarine Base'.

'Submarine Base'
Located on the northern side of Rabaul, about 10 minutes from the town is a vertical reef wall that drops over 75 meters underwater. Japanese reportedly used it to provision submarines during the war. The deep water would allow them to submerge quickly if there was an air raid. A jetty connected to tunnels were dug into the wall, opening into a large cavern with access from the top of the cliff, protecting any provisions to be loaded. Today, only the pylons of the jetty remain.

Fritz Herscheid writes in The Last New Guinea Salvage Pirate page 8:
"I saw for the first time the outline of the Japanese torpedo loading crane which I guessed must have been at around 340' mark. On reaching the 310' mark the outline of the crane was clearly visible."

"George's Wreck"
Japanese shipwreck named after diver who initially discovered


 

 

 

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