Morobe, Papua New Guinea

Morobe is a small coastal village in the Morobe Bay in the south of the province of Morobe in Papua New Guinea.

Morobe, was founded in 1909 as a German government station at Adolf harbor, south of Kaiser Wilhelm Land, ( German New Guinea). The station was designed to monitor the border traffic with the territory of Papua. From 1914 Morobe led two streets inland, Morobe about Mou after Piowaria and Majama about garaina by Ono. Except for a few prospectors and bird of paradise hunters were located until the end of the German colonial era no European settlements in the area of the station.

In the First World War, on 11 January 1915 Australian troops occupied Morobe last of the German government stations. In 1942, during World War II, the city was conquered by the Imperial Japanese forces. On April 3, 1943 freed the U.S. Army Morobe.

  • Place in Papua New Guinea
  • New Guinea
  • German New Guinea
  • Morobe Province
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