Kokoda Track

The Kokoda Track is a touristic unused today bush path between the Yodda - Kokoda goldfields and the south coast of Papua New Guinea. It leads from Kokoda over the Owen Stanley Mountains of Papua New Guinea to the capital Port Moresby.

In the field of view to the world he moved in 1942, when the Japanese army ultimately unsuccessful marching on Port Moresby over the track. The track is now one of the most famous tourist attractions of Papua New Guinea. It leads to 2190 meters up and through some beautiful rainforests and top can be reached in 5-6 days.

History

Gold Digger- track

The Kokoda Track connects the north and the south coast of Papua New Guinea with each other. First, it was used by adventurers who reached the Yodda Kokoda goldfields about him.

In World War II

After their attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, the Japanese moved rapidly across the Pacific towards Australia. The move by the Japanese Navy on Port Moresby was stopped in the Battle of the Coral Sea, which led to another venture plan. About the Kokoda Track, the army should march to Port Moresby. On July 21, 1942, the Japanese landed and overran the Australian defense along the tracks. The Australian Army leadership had been a last defensive battle immediately planned in Port Moresby when the Japanese advance on 16 September at Ioribaiwa, within sight of Port Moresby, stopped. Plans to expand the track for vehicles usable had proved unworkable and the supply of soldiers on air was barely adequate. At the same time the Japanese army came at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands under pressure, so that the troops withdrew on the Kokoda Track. This very wasteful and cruel struggle for the defense of Port Moresby, in the Australian feature film " Kokoda - the 39th Battalion " portrayed by 2006 in impressive pictures.

In the subsequent Buna campaign that drove the Japanese from the north coast, Japanese and Australian troops for the last time stood directly opposite.