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	Rod Pearce - What made you interested in Kavieng, New Ireland?
		I am currently running my vessel out of Kavieng and the reason for this was I was interested in the raid on Kavieng on the 15th February 1944 when four A/C's were lost.
		Facing NNW, she is lying on her starboard wing and her port wing was raised off the sand so you can swim underneath the wing.The fuselage is bent at the waist gunners position and is bent to port at a angle of 20 degrees.
		The Kavieng area is best known for its big fish action and its clear water and is a must for the adventurous diver.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/visitors/pearce/question8.html (538 words)

	Kavieng - Definition, explanation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavieng is the capital of the Papua New Guinean province of New Ireland and the largest town on the island of the same name.
		Twenty-three of these were executed in the Kavieng Wharf Massacre in March 1947, which later led to the perpetrators being sentenced for war crimes.
		Kavieng is the main port on the island, and is both a trading and tourist destination.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/ka/kavieng.php (347 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Kavieng
		Kavieng is the capital of the Papua New Guinean province of New Ireland and the largest town on the island of the same name.
		Twenty-three of these were executed in the Kavieng Wharf Massacre in March 1947, which later led to the perpetrators being sentenced for war crimes.
		Kavieng is the main port on the island, and is both a trading and tourist destination.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Kavieng (485 words)

	Kavieng Radio (VZR) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavieng Radio was classified as an outstation and was one of the earlier stations to be opened in New Guinea, it worked with all the stations in the Territory of New Guinea, and was located on the northern end of the island of NewIreland.
		One advantage of Kavieng was that it was a suitable place for operators to bring their families.
		In December 1941, the impending invasion by the Japanese meant that wives and children were evacuated from Kavieng and, early in 1942, the station was bombed.
	www.satellite-terminals.com /radio_history/vzr.htm (224 words)

	Kavieng (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavieng is the largest town on the island of New Ireland, near New Guinea.
		The island itself is a province of Papua New Guinea, and Kavieng is its capital.
		Wapipedia > Index > K > Ka > Kavieng
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Kavieng (71 words)

	Dive Travel PNG - Kavieng
		The Kavieng Hotel, well known for its warm hospitality and friendly service, offers guests accommodation in airconditioned comfort with private facilities.
		During World War 2, New Ireland was in the front line of the Japanese southward advance and today rusting tanks, naval and and aircraft guns are a silent reminder of the past.
		Kavieng also offers a good selection of water sports and tours for the non diver and the "resting diver".
	www.actiondivers.com.au /travel/sa.shr/dive_travel/3/18 (0 words)

	Kavieng (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavieng ist eine Stadt auf der Insel Neuirland in Papua-Neuguinea mit 11.560 Einwohnern und die Hauptstadt der Provinz New Ireland.
		Kavieng besitzt einen kleinen Flughafen und eine tägliche Verbindung in die Hauptstadt Port Moresby.
		Dennoch wird Kavieng noch immer als typischer Südsee-Hafen wie aus einem Roman von Somerset Maugham beschrieben, klein, schläfrig und friedlich.
	www.biologie.de /biowiki/Kavieng (142 words)

	Kavieng Dive Resort, Papua New Guinea.
		Kavieng lies at the northern end of New Ireland, the second largest of the outlying islands.
		Kavieng was attacked by the Japanese on exactly the same day as Rabaul, 23 January 1942, and became one of their primary bridgeheads into Papua New Guinea.
		Kavieng has a colourful cultural backdrop, perhaps the most famous local inhabitants being the Konto, renowned for their custom of shark-calling - they knock wooden rattles against the sides of their boats to attract the sharks and then lasso their tails and drown them by towing them backwards!
	www.scuba-safaris.com /scuba-diving-locations/papua_new_guinea/resorts/kavieng.html (1331 words)

	Scuba Diving Kavieng - Dive Kavieng, Papua New Guinea - Scuba Dive Travel PNG, Dive Adventures
		Kavieng is situated at the northern tip of New Ireland Province, a long narrow island, 90 minutes flight from Port Moresby.
		Kavieng is reknowned for it’s current-swept channels that attract a variety of big Pelagic fish.
		Located approximately 20 minutes by boat, out of Kavieng, this small, private island retreat, has a white, sandy beach swaying coconut palms and is covered with lush, tropical vegetation.
	www.diveadventures.com /pages/destinations/PNG/kavieng.htm (559 words)

	KAVIENG (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavieng ist das Kapital der Papua neuen Guinean Provinz von neuem Irland und von größten Stadt auf der Insel des gleichen Namens.
		Kavieng ist das Haupttor auf der Insel und ist ein Handeln und touristischer Bestimmungsort.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/ka/Kavieng.htm (306 words)

	Kavieng (New Ireland) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During World War II, New Ireland fell to the Japanese and many of the island's towns, infrastructure and industry was destroyed.
		Kavieng is situated at the northern tip of the island.
		It has often been described as a "typical Somerset Maughan south sea island port".
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/kavieng.html (159 words)

	This Was No Boating Accident
		When I was transferred to Kavieng in New Ireland Province from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, I had heard nothing one way or the other about its potential for sport fishing.
		By the bartender, I was told of a consortium of game fishing enthusiasts who were trolling for an investor to defray expenses on a new 120 HP Evinrude engine for their boat.
		Until I came to Kavieng I wasn't one to drink alcohol before seven in the morning, but it was de rigeur on the Mahseer.
	www.finefishing.com /aaspecies/exotics/noboatingaccident.htm (1680 words)

	Nation Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		KAVIENG town in New Ireland province came to a stand still last Friday, when three military patrol boats and the PNGDF CASA aircraft arrived with VIPS to close the bilateral maritime exercise codenamed Paradise 06 and launch the mobile phone services in the province.
		About 70 PNGDF and Australian sailors marched through Kavieng town amid rousing cheers from the local population who lined the street in force to witness the sailors receive the key to Kavieng town from the lord mayor.
		An official parade was held at the Kavieng court house oval where Mr Aini conducted a parade inspection before officially closing the maritime exercise.
	www.thenational.com.pg /082806/nation13.htm (405 words)

	Diving Kavieng - Dive New Ireland - Scuba Diving Kavieng, Papua New Guinea (PNG) - Diversion Dive Travel
		Kavieng is the ideal base for a PNG diving adventure.
		Kavieng, the capital of New Ireland Province, is situated on a beautiful harbour at the northern tip of the island of New Ireland.
		Kavieng and New Ireland have a very slow pace of life.
	www.diversionoz.com /en/png-kavieng.htm (0 words)

	Papua New Guinea Kavieng dive sites. Scuba diving in PNG
		Kavieng is at the northern tip of New Ireland, the second largest of PNG's outer islands.
		The scenery around Kavieng is stunning and contrasting - mountainous islands which drop sharply into the sea, or a myriad of low lying coral islands surrounded by golden sandy beaches and pretty fringing reefs.
		Kavieng is the temporary base for a number of live-aboards - FeBrina, Tiata and Paradise Sport make it their home for certain months of the year; there are currently no boats based there permanantly.
	www.scuba-safaris.com /scuba-diving-locations/papua_new_guinea/divesites/kavieng.html (1079 words)

	Kavieng (Kawieng)
		American plans originally called for a land invasion of Kavieng, but on March 12, 1944 the Joint Chiefs canceled the scheduled invasion, as part of the island hopping strategy to bypass the heavily fortified area and liberated Hollandia and Emirau instead.
		Thanks to Harumi Sakaguchi for this description: The unit which raised the pillar to commemorate its presence was from the '13th Aerial Torpedo Adjustment Squadron', based in Kavieng.
		Theirs was one of the units specialized in adjusting the aerial torpedoes used by the bombers of the Japanese naval air force based in Rabaul and in Kavieng.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_kavieng.html (0 words)

	MacArthur and the Admiralties
		Kavieng was to be a minor fleet base, a PT boat base, and a major air base with six airfields.
		Kavieng, on the other hand, was a major air and naval base and was reported to be strongly defended.
		They ordered that the Kavieng plan be canceled, that Emirau be seized instead, that Kavieng and Rabaul be isolated with minimum forces, and authorized bypassing Hansa Bay in favor of the invasion of Hollandia which Nimitz' aircraft carriers would support.
	www.army.mil /CMH-pg/books/70-7_11.htm (5821 words)

	Dive Travel PNG - Kavieng
		With it's crystal clear, tropical waters teeming with diverse marine life and WWII relics Kavieng offers visitors a wonderful opportunity to escape to an idyllic tropical island paradise undisturbed by modern civilisation.
		Kavieng has many reefs, wrecks and islands yet to be explored some of the more popular dive sites include;
		Kavieng also offers a good selection of water sports and tours for the non diver and the "resting diver".
	www.diveskisurf.com /travel/sa.shr/dive_travel/3/18 (291 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla.
		Kavieng is the main port on New Ireland, and is both a trading and tourist destination.
		There is also a large wharf for copra export on the town's edge, allowing large deep water ships to load copra and oil directly from the land.
		At least twenty-three of these were executed in the Kavieng Wharf Massacre in March 1944, which later led to the perpetrators being sentenced for war crimes.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kavieng (458 words)

	Robert Eklund’s New Ireland (Niu Ailan) Page
		It is one of the provinces of Papua New Guinea, and the administrative center is Kavieng.
		Here are some pictures of the regional capital, Kavieng.
		Most of these pictures were taken in Bimun, but a couple were taken in Kavieng.
	www.ida.liu.se /~g-robek/PNG-NiuAilan.htm (0 words)

	HyperWar: USMC Operations in WWII: Vol II--Isolation of Rabaul
		In the same message, the general reaffirmed his conviction that Kavieng had to be taken to insure the complete neutralization of Rabaul.
		On 14 March, MacArthur received and passed on to Halsey for compliance, a JCS directive that the 3d Marine Division, the 4th Marines, and the 9th and 14th Defense Battalions were to be released to the control of CinCPOA immediately.
		The naval bombardment group that was to have shelled Kavieng under the cancelled plan was ordered to hit the town and its airfields anyway as insurance against interference from the enemy.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/II/USMC-II-VI-1.html (12312 words)

	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - Papua New Guinea
		This is Genevieve Johnson speaking to you from Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
		The crew took a few hours to explore the port town of Kavieng, discovering that there is a near shore, open air market, which is an ideal place to observe the daily activities of local people.
		The town is surrounded by widely scattered islands with exotic landscapes supporting a diverse array of native flora and fauna-very beautiful, and quite a change from the flat landscape of coral atolls that we have been experiencing over the past 6 months.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/odyssey/20010302_log_transcript.html (643 words)

	Global Adrenaline :: Australia New Zealand :: Papua New Guinea :: Kavieng Scuba Diving
		Kavieng, Papua New Guinea's pelagic capital, is a great choice for world-class big fish and shark dives.
		Because each of our Kavieng expeditions follows a different itinerary, it is difficult to provide a day by day accounting of all of the activities that your trip may include.
		World War II Wrecks: Divers on our Kavieng trips will be able to explore the sites of several World War II wrecks, including the "Nakajima Kate," an airplane in superb condition, a large freighter and a two-man mini-submarine.
	www.globaladrenaline.com /australianewzealand/papuanewguinea/trip2 (824 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavieng is the main port on New Ireland, and is both a trading and tourist destination.
		There is also a large wharf for copra export on the town's edge, allowing large deep water ships to load copra and oil directly from the land.
		At least twenty-three of these were executed in the Kavieng Wharf Massacre in March 1944, which later led to the perpetrators being sentenced for war crimes.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kavieng (456 words)

	Guinea @Digital Outback Photo
		Kavieng is reputed to have opportunities for scuba diving and underwater photography that are among the finest on the planet.
		The sea fans and soft coral growing on the wreck provided habitat for small gobies, hawkfish, butterflyfish, angelfish, wrasse and damselfish, while there was a large population of stingrays, gobies and their partner shrimp and numerous pairs of crab-eyed gobies in the silty sand around the wreck.
		While the travel to and from Kavieng PNG was a challenge, my ten days of diving in the area easily lived up to my high pre-trip expectations.
	www.outbackphoto.com /nature/2002/20020709_newguinea.html (894 words)

	Voyage from Kavieng
		We are heading straight into the south east trade winds and after a night of a steady force 5, there are obvious strains on the rigging, noises we haven't heard before and lines beginning to suffer damage.
		We pass the islands of Tabar and Lihir, the latter having a gold mine.
		We heard disturbing reports while in Kavieng of their dumping cyanide, an enemy to coral reefs, in the open ocean.
	www.pcrf.org /nov2002.html (5813 words)

	Public chase killers and hack leg off one - World - www.smh.com.au
		After Crystal Trading manager James Hana was murdered yesterday in the sleepy island township of Kavieng, members of the public chased the five-strong gang and used a machete to sever the leg off one of the suspects.
		Kavieng politician Martin Aini blamed the police for failing to protect citizens.
		Kavieng is located in the far north-eastern province of New Ireland.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/04/06/1081017147870.html (311 words)

	Dive-Oz Discussion Forums - Kavieng & Lissenung Is
		Posted - 01 July 2006 : 7:36:27 PM Hi, Guys has anyone been to Kavieng or Lisenung Is as I'm heading that way at the end of the year.
		Posted - 03 July 2006 : 07:20:47 AM The diving in Kavieng is awesome - sheer walls, some interesting wrecks, lots of big fish and some amazing macro as well as great vis.
		John and I stayed at Malagan's resort in Kavieng in 2004 and dived with Scuba Ventures but you can also stay on Nusa Island across the lagoon or on Lissenung, which is located further out (about 30 mins by boat).
	www.diveoz.com.au /DISCUSSION_FORUMS/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=12549&REPLY_ID=118009 (279 words)

	Hammerheads & Silvertips Yacht Charter in New Ireland @ SYS-CON Media (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Great hammerhead encounters at Kavieng are rare but Dietmar’s sighting was one of the highlights of six years diving in New Ireland.
		Beneath an old jetty at Kavieng, living on the sand and ribbon weed beds lurks the bizarre and the ugly, a macro-photographers paradise.
		Kavieng is largely an archipeligo of islands, although the New Ireland land mass, shaped like a great rib, extends for 360 kilometres.
	www.sys-con.com /read/160889.htm (1316 words)

	Diving in Kavieng / Papua New Guinea
		During World War II Kavieng was occupied by Japanese troops and finally freed by allied forces in 1944.
		But the real attraction of the waters around Kavieng is the fish life.
		Located about 15 minutes by boat out of Kavieng, you are now on a small private island with coconut palms and a beautiful white sand beach.
	members.ping.at /a.kucera/png/lissenung/li_body.htm (1068 words)

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