Morotai

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Morotai, also: Morty is an Indonesian island and belongs to the archipelago of the Moluccas, Maluku Utara Province. The island is located north of Halmahera and comprises around 1,800 km ².

During World War II, the Japanese tried to create by the Dutch, a runway after the conquest of the island. Because Dränageproblemen but they gave in 1944 the project again. On September 15, 1944 Morotai was invaded by U.S. forces and served the United States as an important base for the conquest of the Philippines. Until the spring of 1945, the base was the target of numerous Japanese air attacks. Many damaged aircraft remained put, and later other discarded aircraft were deposited on the island, so Morotai after the war had one of the largest cemeteries in the plane Pazifkregion. Only in 1988 the bulk of the wreckage was brought to Java and scrapped.

The population of the island lives of the timber and resin production and to a lesser extent on tourism.

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