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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