Pacific

Islands

Monthly

September, 1950

Vol. XXI. No. 2.

Established 1930.

I Registered at the G.P.0., by post as a newspaper]

An aerial photograph of Finschhafen, situated almost on the tip of the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea mainland. Before the war it had little importance other than as picturesque station of the Lutheran Mission. The Japs occupied it in early 1942 took prisoner the missionaries. It was re-occupied by the 9th Division, AIF, in early October, 1943, and theirs was the task of cleaning out the Japs from the Peninsula and the SateIbefg trongholds behind it. Good airstrips were put down at Finsch hafen and it now is on the QEA New Guinea air-route. For some time after the Second World War it was the New Guinea headquarters of the RAN. It has an excellent harbour. -Photo by Whites Aviation.