The capital is Port Moresby.

During the Pacific War, Papua was governed by an Australian military administration from Port Moresby, where General Douglas MacArthur occasionally made his headquarters.

Rabaul, the capital of the Territory was overwhelmed on 22 – 23 January and was established as a major Japanese base from whence they landed on mainland New Guinea and advanced towards Port Moresby and Australia.

Having had their initial effort to capture Port Moresby by a seaborne invasion disrupted by the U. S. Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese attempted a landward invasion from the north via the Kokoda Trail.

From July 1942, a few Australian reserve battalions, many of them very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action against a Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track, towards Port Moresby, over the rugged Owen Stanley Ranges.

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

Valued at A $ 760 million, the program was to tackle crime and corruption in PNG by sending 200 Australian police to Port Moresby and installing 40 Australian officials within the national bureaucracy.

A considerable urban drift towards Port Moresby and other major centers has occurred in recent years.

Between 1978 and 1988, Port Moresby grew nearly 8 % per year, Lae 6 %, Mount Hagen 6. 5 %, Goroka 4 %, and Madang 3 %.

* Port Moresby

The capital, Port Moresby, is not linked by road to any of the other major towns and many highland villages can only be reached by light aircraft or on foot.

Major improvements were made to key highway links, notably between the coast and the highlands, to provide international standard port facilities at Port Moresby and Lae, and in lesser ports, for international and domestic airport upgradings, and for the regulation and management of transport services.

Even today the two largest cities, Port Moresby and Lae, are only directly connected by planes.

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" Australia is particularly interested in supporting Port Moresby in the areas of counter-terrorism, maritime patrols and defence organisation structures and procedures.

During its history the PNGDF has sent 400 troops to assist the Vanuatu government put down a secessionist revolt in 1980 and was called out in aid to the civil power in Port Moresby in 1983.

* Command HQ ( Port Moresby );

* two light Infantry battalions of the Royal Pacific Islands Regiment ( 1 RPIR at Port Moresby and 2 RPIR at Wewak );

* PNGDF Signals Squadron ( Port Moresby );

The army's main bases include Port Moresby, Wewak and Lae, while company strength outstations are located at Kiunga and Vanimo.

A training depot is maintained at Goldie River near Port Moresby and at Lae.

In 1995, Port Moresby reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank on a structural adjustment program, of which the first phase was successfully completed in 1996.

A 5, 000-6, 000 m³ ( 30, 000-40, 000 barrel ) per day oil refinery project in which there is an American interest also is under development in Port Moresby.

Astronaut View of Port Moresby

* August 26 – Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia, flying his Stinson Detroiter " Port of Brunswick " to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Paul Signac, The Port of Saint-Tropez, oil on canvas, 1901

In retaliation, the Archbishop of Paris, Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz suspended the convent of Port Royal from receiving the Sacraments.

* Paul Smith ( footballer born 1964 ), English football player with Sheffield United and Port Vale

The town was known as “ Central Station ” by the railroads because of its position halfway between the Twin Port of Duluth and Superior as well as the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Acknowledging Paul's long links with the area, in October 2005, the local Port Phillip Council agreed to name a path alongside the Elwood Canal after him, Paul Hester Walk.

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

* Paul Cyr was born in Port Alberni and was drafted into the NHL by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round ( 9th overall ) in 1982.

File: Paul Signac Port de Marseille. jpg | Paul Signac, Port de Marseille, 1905, Metropolitan Museum of Art

** John Paul II, New Port in Gdańsk

It has 19th century French paintings by Charles Daubigny, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Eugene Boudin (" Port, Le Havre "), Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte (" Railway Bridge at Argentieul "), Claude Monet (" Doges Palace, Venice ), Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cézanne as well as many others.

Welland riding consists of the cities of Welland, Thorold, and Port Colborne, the Township of Wainfleet, and the part of the City of St. Catharines lying south of a line drawn from the western city limit east along St. Paul Street West, northeast along St. Paul Crescent, east and south along Twelve Mile Creek, and east along Glendale Avenue to the eastern city limit.

File: Paul Signac Entrée du port de Marseille. jpg | Paul Signac, Entrance to the Port of Marseilles, 1918.

It also ran at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, starring Helen Hayes award winner Andrew Long, and directed by Alan Paul, and at Theater Three in Port Jefferson, New York, featuring Jeffrey Sanzel.

Events described in the novel include the Boston Tea Party, the British blockade of the Port of Boston, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

In a game against Port Vale, Saunders chased a long ball down with Vale keeper Paul Musselwhite, Musselwhite won the race and knocked the ball out for a throw in, only for Saunders to quickly pick it up and throw it onto the keeper's back, and then proceed to curl it in from 25 yards.

Frederick Paul Fromm ( born January 3, 1949 ), known as Paul Fromm, is a Canadian, based in Port Credit, Ontario.

Paul Frederick was born on June 16 ( year not known ) in Port Arthur, Texas.