The harbour is the most colourful part of town and it’s worth exploring. There are one-man canoes, brightly painted island boats, work tugs and passenger dinghies, as well as a couple of wrecks protruding from the water.
Sanderson Harbour
Papua New Guinea
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For a bird’s-eye view, walk up the steps in town to the hospital, take the right fork and keep going for a couple of hundred metres.
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For a bird’s-eye view, walk up the steps in town to the hospital, take the right fork and keep going for a couple of hundred metres.
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The Australian War Memorial has a detailed description of the Battle of Milne Bay in which joint Australian and Papuan forces pushed back and defeated the…
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