Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Langemak Bay

Bay in New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Langemak Baymap
Remove ads
Remove ads

Langemak Bay (Langemark, Langemaak) is a bay north of Finschhafen, on the north east coast of Papua New Guinea. Langemak Bay saw extensive naval operations in World War II, including a landing beach at the western end of the bay for the embarkation of the 2/24th Australian Infantry Battalion. The US Navy built Naval Base Finschhafen in 1943.[2][3]

Thumb
Langemak Bay (German: Langemak Bucht), as recorded by A. Wegner, published by the German Reichs-Marine-Amt (1898).[1]

6°35′05″S 147°50′23″E

Remove ads

References

Loading content...
Loading content...
Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads