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THE KOKODA track region appears much as it did in 1942 when the Australian soldiers fought there. Along the track, trenches and rusted weapons can still be seen. There are almost none of the ...
An historian and filmmaker is hoping to attract new and young audiences to the story of the Kokoda Track using social ... military efforts in World War 2, with real concerns that if they did ...
You have to take the rough with the tough on the Kokoda Track, but then there’s the majesty, writes BRYCE CORBETT, who walks away a changed man. Choose your next luxury travel destination with Gourmet ...
Many Australians travel to PNG each year to walk the Kokoda Track in an effort to retrace the steps taken by soldiers during World War II. April is one of the peak periods for tour groups in the ...
The Kokoda Trail is famed in Australia as the site of the most important battle citizens fought—and won—against the Japanese in World War II. Now, trekking the 60-mile trail in Papua New ...
It is with some dismay then that the threat of the closure of the Kokoda Trail has emerged. Papua New Guinea landowners have warned they will close the track unless they receive a larger ...
"Within this group we have several people walking the track in honour of family members who fought as part of the Kokoda campaign. They will literally be walking in the footsteps of their fathers ...
The partial remains of Australian World War II soldiers have been recovered near the Kokoda Track in a grave site which has remained untouched for 80 years. The grave site, located on the ...
Australia wants an accord with Papua New Guinea to safeguard the Kokoda Trail, the World War II battle site, after local villagers blocked part of the track to support the building of a gold and ...
PNG authorities told the group of between 350 and 400 guides and porters, employed by Adventure Kokoda, to reopen the track after an almost three-day standoff which saw them form a human barricade ...
We were hiking the Kokoda Track, a 60-mile path across the otherwise impassable Owen Stanley mountain range that divides the north and south coasts of Papua New Guinea. During World War II ...