Kokoda Track Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
trail in Papua New Guinea, WW2 battlefield
About Kokoda Track
What is now known as the Kokoda Track was a collection of trails and trading routes used by villagers to cross the Owen Stanley Range and travel from the south to north coast of Papua New Guinea for hundreds of years, and in the 19th century by Europeans keen to reach the goldfields on the northern half of the island. Even today, there is not a single route from what is now known as Owen's Corner in the south to the Kokoda Valley in the north, but alternative tracks that go through different valleys and different villages for about 96 kilometres. The most commonly used series of tracks follows about two thirds of the original track that was fought over. The track became famous during theSecond World Warwhen troops of the 39th Australian Infantry Battalion and Japanese Imperial Forces fough
Kokoda Track Travel Guide Sections
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