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.

w Guinea, located 5 miles from Port Moresby.

" 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.

* Port Moresby in Paul Bowles ' The Sheltering Sky, in North Africa.

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

Adams convinced Gerry to reenter politics after the Boston Port Act closed that city's port, and Marblehead became a port to which relief supplies could be delivered.

On 18 May 2005, " Holden Ltd " became " GM Holden Ltd ", coinciding with the resettling to the new Holden headquarters on 191 Salmon Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria.

Jamaica became a base of operations for privateers, including Captain Henry Morgan, operating from the main English settlement Port Royal.

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

In 1755 Newton became tide surveyor ( a tax collector ) of the Port of Liverpool, again through the influence of Manesty.

In 2005 Shanghai Port Management Department reported that its Shanghai port became the world's largest cargo port, processing cargo topping 443 million tons and surpassing Singapore's port.

The transport from the Eastern Front to the Port of Vladivostok slowed down in the chaos, and the troops became dispersed all along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

She became a fixture in the camps, particularly in Port Royal, South Carolina, assisting fugitives.

His parents ran a pub called the Red Lion in the town of Burslem, before his father became the licensee at the Port Vale F. C.

), later became their registered trademark, and is still printed on wheels of Port Salut cheese distributed today.

The two Port Royal convents thus became major strongholds of Jansenism.

The Russians had been ordered to break the blockade of Port Arthur, but the city had already fallen on 2 January, so the Russian port of Vladivostok became the objective.

During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.

In September 1975, Papua New Guinea became an independent country with Port Moresby as its capital city.

The family moved to Port Jervis, New York in 1876, where Dr. Crane became the pastor of Drew Methodist Church, a position that he retained until his death.

( In 1835 he became aware of John Batman's Port Phillip Association camp and reintroduced himself to Europeans.

Pastoralists John Aitken and George Russell suggested forming a partnership, and in August 1834 a group of eight Launceston capitalists formed what became the Port Phillip Association.

During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, New Port Richey became the winter home of silent screen star Thomas Meighan and golfer Gene Sarazen ; Meighan attempted to bring other Hollywood figures to the city.

Ainger was born in Sheffield in 1949, and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar School in Staveley, Derbyshire, and after leaving education in 1967 moved to Milford Haven and became a dock worker at the Marine and Port Services of Pembroke Dock.

Before Sandwich became a Cinque Port, the ancient Saxon town of Stonar, located on the bank of the Wantsum estuary, but on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Stour, was already well established.

On November 12, 1976, as Fox was driving home to Port Coquitlam, he became distracted by nearby bridge construction, and crashed into the back of a pickup truck.

When the Internet became popular, the console could also receive redirection from Amiga Internet stacks employing Internet-enabled Amiga device handlers ( e. g., TCP :, < tt > copy file TO TCP: Site / Port </ tt >).

The Port of Petersburg became renowned as a commercial center for processing cotton, tobacco and metal, then shipping products out of the region.

However, Port Royal was served by the new highways which became U. S. Route 17 and U. S. Route 301, with their crossroads at Port Royal.