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A board of trustees for the proposed establishment of the museum was formed in 1954. [2] The Public Museums and Art Galleries Ordinance was created in 1956 established the Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery. [1] The museum collections were initially housed in disused government buildings, and in 1960 they moved to an old hospital.
Port Moresby (/ ˈ m ɔːr z b i / ⓘ; Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea.It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New Zealand.
The Papua and New Guinea House of Assembly seated between 1964 and 1975 in a building in downtown Port Moresby that was previously used as a hospital. [2] The National Parliament Building was officially opened by Prince Charles on 8 August 1984. [ 2 ]
Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery; University of Papua New Guinea; PMRL Stadium; PNG Football Stadium; Port Moresby General Hospital; Port Moresby International Airport; Port Moresby National High School
Rear Admiral John Moresby (15 March 1830 – 12 July 1922) was a British naval officer who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port Moresby. Life and career
A pictorial history of New Guinea (1975) Golson, Jack. 50,000 years of New Guinea history (1966) Griffin, James. Papua New Guinea: A political history (1979) Knauft, Bruce M. South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (1993) excerpt and text search; McCosker, Anne. Masked Eden: A History of the Australians in New Guinea ...
The Port Moresby Airfield Complex was a World War II military airfield complex, built near Port Moresby in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. It was used during the Battle of New Guinea as a base of Allied air operations primarily in 1942 and early 1943.
Port Moresby is a tropical city on the southeast coast of New Guinea Island. Port Moresby had good Fleet anchorage in a protected port that is 5 miles long by 3 miles wide, with a sand and clay seafloor at Fairfax Harbor-Moresby Harbor. Base construction started on June 20, 1943 with the arrival of US Navy Seabees of the 55th Battalion.