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The Best Attractions In Alotau

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Alotau is the capital of Milne Bay Province, in the south-east of Papua New Guinea. It is located on the northern shore of Milne Bay. Alotau is also the annual forum for Australian and Papua New Guinean ministers. Its Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alotau–Sideia. The town is located within the area in which the invading Japanese army suffered their first land defeat in the Pacific War in 1942, before the Kokoda Track battle. A memorial park at the old battle site commemorates the event. Alotau became the provincial capital in 1969, when it was shifted from Samarai.
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  • 3. Port of Alotau Alotau
    Jacksons International Airport , also known as Port Moresby Airport, is located 8 kilometres outside Port Moresby, in Papua New Guinea. It is the largest and busiest airport in Papua New Guinea, with an estimate of 1.4 million passengers using the airport by 2015 , and is the main hub for Air Niugini , as well as the main hub for PNG Air and Travel Air. It replaced the original Port Moresby airport, in what is now the suburb of Waigani, whose airstrip remained until the 1990s but no trace of which is now there, it having been built over.
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