CHAPTER 14: Official Naming Rights – ‘Kokoda Trail’ or ‘Kokoda Track’
The term ‘Kokoda Trail’ was recommended by the PNG Place Names Committee in the lead-up to Independence in 1972.
The recommendation was accepted and gazetted by the PNG Government on 12 October 1972.
For reasons unknown, the Australian Government refuses to recognise PNGs sovereign right to name their own geographic features – they prefer to use their own politically correct term, ‘Kokoda Track’.
This is a rejection of PNGs sovereign right to name their geographic features’.
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