27 May 2025 Fifty years ago, Papua New Guinea was handed independence on a plate by its former...
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An Expert Guide for Pilgrimage Treks Across the Kokoda Trail
Prior to Charlie Lynn’s first trek in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign there was no management structure in place and no mechanism for landowner communities to benefit from the few trekkers who passed by each year.
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A Complete Guide to Legal, Illegal & Immoral Kokoda Tour Operators
If you choose to trek Kokoda with an illegal tour operator you risk invalidating their Public...
Read MoreA Complete Guide to Legal, Illegal, and Immoral Kokoda Tour Operators
Australians wishing to trek across the Kokoda Trail have an expectation they will be safe; campsites/toilets will be hygienic; and they will learn about the military history of the Kokoda campaign. Their international window to...
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2024 Kokoda Day Commemoration Service
At Gallipoli we fought for Britain and lost… At Kokoda we fought for Australia and won! Kokoda Day is dedicated to the legacy of the New Guinea wartime carriers who were indentured to support our Australian forces in World War II.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel Day – Kokoda Day
Kokoda Day or Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuzzy Angel Day as a National Day of Commemoration?
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Apology to Kokoda Trail Villagers
‘Olgeta,
‘We met 31 years ago when you welcomed me into your villages on my first trek with Alex Rama in 1991. At the time you told me that few people trekked across the Trail – less than 100 each year – and you only made a few kina selling your vegetables at markets. . . .
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Official Name of the Kokoda Trail
Australia’s preference for the politically correct term ‘Kokoda Track’ in preference to PNGs official name ‘Kokoda Trail’ is a patronising breach of international protocol towards – our closest neighbour, former mandated territory, fellow Commonwealth member and wartime ally.
Read MoreOWERS CORNER: How to convert a memorial junkyard into PNGs No 1 Tourism Asset
Air Niugini’s Paradise magazine describes a visit to Ower’s Corner, where ‘the road becomes a footpath that connects the start of the Kokoda Trail . . . just an hour and a half from downtown Port Moresby’.Visitors who make the...
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Adventure Kokoda Response to the DFAT-Kokoda Initiative National Military Heritage Plan for the Kokoda Trail
FORWARD The Kokoda campaign was a series of military battles fought along the Kokoda Trail between...
Read MoreCase for a Visitor’s Centre at Owers Corner
Presentation by Charlie Lynn at the ‘Future Cities Conference’ hosted by the PNG Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Brisbane on the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign
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RIP: Faole Bokoi – Menari Village
Trekking Kokoda will never be the same without the presence of distinguished elder, Faole Bokoi,...
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