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	Wewak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.
		Wewak is linked by road to three villages on the Sepik River: Angoram, Timbunke, and Pagwe.
		In addition, a coastal highway extends to the west linking Wewak with the coastal towns of Aitape and Vanimo, which is the capital of Sandaun provence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wewak (211 words)

	Wewak Radio (VJN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wewak Radio was opened in 1936, when the town became the administrative centre of the largest district in New Guinea - the Sepik district.
		Wewak is located about 120 kilometres south of Aitape, on the northeastern coast of New Guinea.
		Wewak Radio was re-opened by OTC shortly after it took over the Coastal Radio Service in 1947.
	www.satellite-terminals.com /radio_history/vjn.htm (197 words)

	Wewak
		Not a single shot was fired in the defense of Wewak, as most of colonial officers and families had fled inland and away prior to the invasion.
		The Wewak area, including the ofsore islands of Muscu and Kairuru became the largest concentration of Japanese Army troops on mainland New Guinea, along with a smaller Navy presence.
		Wewak was bypassed by the Allied landings further to the west at Hollandia and Ataipe, it became an isolated pocket of resistance, cut off from supply or escape.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_wewak.html (443 words)

	Journey: Wewak
		Wewak is the seaside provincial capital of the East Sepik Province.
		Wewak’s European history goes back to the early 1900s, the first European known to have settled in Wewak was SVD Brother Gottfried Laubach in 1911 when he bought the 500 hectares of the present Wirui Mission.
		Today Wewak is the economic hub of the north-western corner of the Papua New Guinea mainland, but don’t be surprised to see a person walking down the main street of the town chewing bettle-nut while conversing with someone in pidgin on their mobile phone with a laptop slung over their shoulder.
	patricianbrothers.com /patwebsite/australia/journey/wewak/wewak.html (688 words)

	Diving Wewak - Dive Hermit Islands - Scuba Diving Papua New Guinea (PNG) - Diversion Dive Travel
		Wewak is a sleepy tropical town, with a small hotel and an airport.
		Wewak is at the northern shore of PNG's main island and its only access is by sea or air.
		Wewak is a good starting point for excursions along the mighty Sepik River with its ancient culture famous for magnificent wood carvings.
	www.diversionoz.com /en/png-wewak.htm (820 words)

	Wewak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wewak is an attractive palm-fringed town which felt the might of Japanese troops who 'discovered' its isolation and its hidden ports around Kairiru Island.
		Wewak, with its palm fringed beaches is the main town of East Sepik.
		Not far from Wewak is Cape Wom, the site of the Japanese surrender where Lieutenant General Adachi signed the surrender documents and handed his sword to Major General Robertson on 13th September 1945.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/wewak.html (336 words)

	Weekender page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WEWAK, apart from being one of the best places in Papua New Guinea to holiday or live in, is also significant for its World War II history.
		The Wewak area was the largest concentration of Japanese Army troops on mainland New Guinea.
		Japanese and Allied war memorials in and around Wewak, and remnant Japanese war bunkers, tunnels and wrecks are of particular interest to war veterans and their descendents and to historians.
	www.thenational.com.pg /0712/w1.htm (1064 words)

	Br. Pat Howley, fms - Wewak Earthquake
		Reports from Wewak said the islands of Kairuru, Musu and the Wallace and Tarue group of islands were badly affected, while on the coast Boiken was struck hard.
		In Wewak town, a number of houses were damaged, especially on Wewak Hill, and power poles and the water pipes broken, affecting water and power supplies to the town residents.
		Prime Minister Michael Somare was at his home in Wewak at the time of the quake, which rattled furniture and broke crockery in the house but did not harm the veteran politician, a local official said.
	www.health.gov.pg /~fmspng/quake.html (1060 words)

	Australian War Memorial - AJRP
		Wewak was regarded as the most important logistic base for air and sea support for the 18th Army.
		Initially, the 41st Division was assigned to patrol the Wewak and But areas, but later its area was expanded to the mouth of Ram River and further, to the Dutch border.
		The Wewak area was bombed during the period of airfield construction as we read in the Tamura Diary, but the bombing was restricted at night to a single bomber, while Allied reconnaissance planes flew over the area during the day.
	ajrp.awm.gov.au /ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/ad1fef5ca7ef1f64ca256b7200257b3d/6fdc30e8806ec7d9ca256b73000e4618?OpenDocument (2644 words)

	Tsunami in Papua New Guinea, September 9, 2002
		The shaking was responsible for landslides, liquefaction, collapsed buildings and water tanks, a severed water supply main for the town of Wewak and, remarkably, the uplift of the outer islands by 30-40 cm.
		Residents reported that the earthquake was preceded by, and accompanied by, a roaring noise that approached Wewak from the west-northwest.
		On this particular day at high tide, the sea level was observed to be 30 to 50 cm less than the level normally expected for the high tide, as indicated to the ITST by local residents on a log bridge and on the root outcrop of a tree growing at the shoreline.
	www.usc.edu /dept/tsunamis/PNG2002 (2429 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » PNG: No water in Wewak quake zone
		An emergency meeting of concerned parties including the Wewak hospital, the Waterboard, police, district administration, churches, the Wewak Chamber of Commerce, CIS, PNG Defense Force and the East Sepik government and administration agreed that repairing the burst water pipe was a matter of urgent priority.
		The situation in Wewak and its surrounding areas, including the islands, was normal yesterday, although aftershocks were still being felt at random intervals throughout the day.
		According to local reports in Wewak, the mother and child were not just the victims of a natural disaster but also a tragedy of a cultural making as the newborn baby and the mother were required by custom to remain secluded in their house, which toppled during the quake.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/8614fa848b38496349256c32001922ac (727 words)

	07/06/00 -- Govts, developer sign Wewak tuna fish deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WORK on the K84 million Wewak tuna fisheries project is soon to begin, with the signing yesterday of the project agreement between the national and provincial governments and project developer, Angco Ltd.
		Wewak town will experience (major) developments associated with the tuna project.
		Mr Narokobi, who is also the Wewak MP said this was his view about development.
	forests.org /archive/png/govdevsi.htm (631 words)

	Wewak
		Wewak is a town on the northern coast of New Guinea, which in 1942 was the administrative centre for the Sepik District.
		In December of that year it was occupied by the Japanese and subsequently developed as their largest base in New Guinea, with both a substantial airfield and small-scale port facilities.
		Wewak airfield was captured without opposition on 12 May. Five Australians and up to 200 Japanese were killed in the fighting for Wewak.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/place_171.asp (260 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Although their primary role was the defence of the base facilities at Aitape, Australian commanders opted to advance to the east of Aitape, towards Wewak, to destroy the remnants of the Japanese 18th Army.
		It had two axes - one along the coast towards the Japanese base at Wewak, and the other into the Torricelli Mountains, aimed at the area around Maprik used for the gardening and foraging upon which the Japanese force depended for its sustenance.
		Wewak fell on 10 May. The remaining Japanese bastion in the area remained the Prince Alexander Mountains to the south of Wewak.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_280.asp (448 words)

	Travel - Wewak Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wewak Papua New Guinea is a thriving city with beautiful beaches along its coast.
		Wewak is a pleasant stop on the way to a Sepik River excursion.
		Wewak is located 460 miles northwest of Port Moresby.
	www.find-out.biz /travel/south-pacific/papua-new-guinea/wewak (109 words)

	The World at War
		At Aitape to Wewak, northern New Guinea 1944-45
		Meanwhile the 17BG foot slogging up and grunting down in the Terricelli highlands, supplied by C-47 biscuit bombers and even had two 4.2inch mortars parachuted in, were relentlessly pushing the Japanese dissipated 41 Division both east and south away from the coast and their supplies.
		Maj Cory, commanding the tanks at Wewak requested H-hour be delayed to 6.10am, to allow for more daylight to appear during the tropical rainstorm.
	worldatwar.net /article/australiantank/guinea44.html (1314 words)

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		Wewak was a small town on the PNG coast, near the Indonesian border.
		Back in Wewak, I met a Norwegian anthropologist, who was hanging around Wewak trying to get an MAF plane to take him to the village he was doing research in.
		The distance from Eram to Wewak was far too great to even consider walking, and no airstrips were nearby, so we had to arrange some kind of river transport.
	www.csd.abdn.ac.uk /~ereiter/travel/png.txt (4632 words)

	SPINF News
		At the time the war ended, the Japanese military headquarters was at Wewak, on the eastern coast of the island.
		With Wewak as his base he became a Member of Parliament and concerned himself with the independence movement.
		The main dish at that time was freshly caught tuna sashimi, but for some reason it appeared on the menu as "susumi." "It's a shame there's no wasabi today, but 'susumi' is a favorite of mine," he said, and I was surprised to see him eat it after soaking it liberally in soy sauce.
	www.spf.org /spinf/0304_02.html (853 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	www.cart00ney.org /home.htm (169 words)

	February 1944
		Uneventful fighter sweeps to Wewak and routine valley patrols were our lot until the 18th, when we escorted bombers to Hansa Bay without incident.
		Needless to say his presence was like a return from the grave, and he was the only one able to cross his name off the squadron scoreboard which also listed the deceased pilots.
		The last day of the month the squadron was on alert awaiting a chance to aid in the landing on Admiralty Isle by going to Wewak, but the month ended on a sour note as our boys never had the occasion to get off the ground.
	www.flyingknights.net /unit/feb44.htm (775 words)

	Wewak
		Below are a series of near panorama photos of the Wewak area, looking down from Kreer area.
		The left photo show Cape Wom, with the flat Muschu Island behind it and mountainous Kairuri further behind.
		The middle photo shows the large peninsula of Wewak town.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /walkabout/wewak/wewak.html (162 words)

	The Australians at War Film Archive - 50
		Blamey, as Australian commander, decided that Wewak should be captured rather than leave the garrison left to wither and die on the vine - again, the decision to assault the place ties into arguments about the 'unnecessary war'.
		One brigade would move via the coast toward Wewak while the other, accompanied by engineers, would cross the Torricellis and move east with a view to coming in from the south against the Wewak garrison.
		The 19th Brigade, back in the saddle, had commenced its assault on Wewak in early May. RAAF planes and RAN ships (HMAS Hobart, Arunta, Warramunga and Swan as well as HMS Newfoundland of the British Pacific Fleet) bombarded the Wewak defences.
	www.australiansatwarfilmarchive.gov.au /aawfa/campaigns/Wewak.html (586 words)

	Battle of the Bismarck Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The move was not a small one — it was a heavy burden on Japanese shipping capability, but the high command thought it was necessary.
		By late February, the 20th and 41st divisions had been safely transported to Wewak.
		Next, the 51st Division was to be transported from the fortress port of Rabaul to Lae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea (1150 words)

	Unit History
		During the latter part of August, the 475th was primarily engaged in escorting bombers to the powerful Japanese base at Wewak.
		After that series of blows against Wewak, the Japanese were forced to shift their strength to bases further up the coast of New Guinea.
		Throughout its raids on Wewak, the Fifth Air Force had achieved local control of the air, which paved the way for the Allied Ground offensive.
	www.475thfghf.org /history.htm (1474 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wewak is considered by Tourists and Locals alike to be one of the best places in Papau New Guinea to holiday or live in.
		With its beautiful open blue water habour and tropical mountain ranges, Wewak definately has something to offer both the holiday maker wanting to get away from it all and the adventure seeker looking for that experience of a life time.
		Wewak Town is a bustling epicentre which is home to the commercial, administration and transportation centres of the province.
	www.lastfrontierarts.com.pg /sepik/wewak.htm (241 words)

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		PROLOGUE TO WEWAK Our Operation Order routed us through the vicinity of WEWAK, a more or less undetermined spot located in whole degrees of latitude and longitude as 4 degrees S and 144 degrees E. Air reconnaissance had reported considerable shipping there, and dispatches received enroute indicated continued use of this area by the enemy.
		The position of WEWAK HARBOR was determined as behind KAIRIRU and NUSHU ISLANDS on the Northwest Coast of New Guinea through the interest of D.C. KEETER, MMIc U.S. Navy who had purchased an Australian "two-bit" school atlas of the area.
		At WEWAK BEACH noises were very distinct from each island and were used to check the DR position..
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~tlm/silent/reports/wahoo/wahoo_3rd_patrol.txt (4807 words)

	[No title]
		Half-term break had arrived and I was excitedly making my way to Wewak to meet up with the Educational Bookship that was making her first ever visit to the Pacific Island nation of PNG.
		As I was teaching fulltime, the weekends and holidays were the only times I was able to assist with the arrangements and give support to the husband and wife team that were doing all the advance line-up work for the vessel.
		As the aircraft was approaching her destination, the captain spoke to us and informed everyone that he was dimming the lights and making a circuit of the town of Wewak - just a small coastal Melanesian town - so that we could enjoy seeing the "lights of Wewak".
	www.acts-on-the-net.org /Online/Acts.nsf/PPs/B2941E1718A4ACA880256E2C0063B854 (473 words)

	CNN.com - Strong quake rocks PNG - September 8, 2002
		The quake was centered about 50 miles (80 km) to the west-northwest of Wewak, in eastern Papua New Guinea on the northern coast.
		One tsunami near Wewak had an amplitude, or height above sea level, of 1 to 2 meters, McKee said.
		He said there was one report of a person in Wewak who broke his leg after he jumped out of an elevated home when the shaking began.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/09/08/png.quake (305 words)

	Douglas A-20A serial #40-170, March 26, 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dozens of Allied airmen were kept in a barbed-wire cage near Boram Airfield, in the vicinity of Wewak, from July 1943 to April 1944.
		It was alleged that when Japanese units were ordered to evacuate to Hollandia around the end of March 1944, all of the prisoners in the cage were shot.
		Division, who arrived in the Wewak area in July 1943, and in fact Goro signed an affidavit acknowledging this post-war.
	www.aerothentic.com /history/MIA/BoramPOWcage.htm (455 words)

	Wewak Airport: Boram Airport airport service, Papua New Guinea
		Rental cars Wewak Airport: find the best car rent deals from dozens of international and local car rental companies at Boram Airport.
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		Wewak Airport Service offers direct access to multiple databases with rent a car deals, special flight offers and cheap hotel reservation.
	www.international-airport-service.com /papua-new-guinea/wewak.html (179 words)

	Narrative 4
		Initially, Wewak had been built up as a major enemy base in which the Japanese had poured the best of their air force units.
		On the raid of 25 August the 43rd and 90th Groups claimed they destroyed approximately 200 enemy planes at the Japanese base, and thus caused the enemy to shift their major strength from Wewak to Hollandia, farther up the New Guinea coast.
		After one mission to Wewak on the first of December, the 43rd devoted its efforts to the neutralization of enemy airdromes in New Britain during the remainder of the month.
	www.kensmen.com /narr4.html (750 words)

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