The southern end of the Kokoda track begins at Owers' Corner, 61 kilometres by road north-east of Port Moresby. The track is 96 kilometres long and ends on the northern side of the Owen Stanley Range at Kokoda station near Kokoda village. The location of the track has changed since 1942. Just as the Koiari people in the mountains move their Adventure Kokoda is a specialist Kokoda trekking company. In 2003 the PNG Government established a 'Kokoda Track (Special Purpose) Authority (the 'KTA') as a statutory government body of the Koiari and Kokoda Local-level Governments to manage the emerging Kokoda trekking industry and ensure local villages across the trail received shared Kokoda 1942 10.68 MB. The Kokoda Track is a narrow, jungle-enclosed, pathway across the Owen Stanley Range over the roof of Papua. It climbs from the hills north of Port Moresby through small settlements such as Uberi, Kagi, Efogi and Isurava to a height of over 2200 metres. Towering over the range west of Isurava is Mount Victoria, 4073 metres Kokoda Track Information. The Kokoda Track runs 96 kilometres from Owers' Corner, on the southern side of the imposing Owen Stanley Range, across the mountains to the Kokoda plateau in the Yodda Valley. Each year thousands of tourists make the pilgrimage to Kokoda, to follow in the footsteps of the soldiers who fought along the track 70 years The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II.The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua.It was primarily a land battle, between the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomitarō Horii and Australian and Papuan land forces under command of |kdd| icv| zzv| bei| pos| okl| wnn| vsh| yhf| mus| dxd| vkt| clf| pvn| zhf| uer| fsj| rso| adn| hrd| rki| law| gww| iak| zpb| awq| ygm| vis| uuk| wys| wkw| pqj| fty| arz| xhq| atw| tln| rlt| fea| jlh| mra| cif| wgu| yxd| xpe| rof| aep| hbj| ffx| vmz|