Pacific memories
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NEW GUINEA: This bronze eagle, now at Mount Hagen, was an the grave of Curt von Hagen, a German pioneer of NG, who was killed near Madang by a native. The eagle was lost for a time during the war. Looking at it is Highlands planter Lloyd Hurrell.
OCEAN ISLAND: These two rough blocks of stone commemorate (left) the war dead, including the native people who were forcibly removed from Ocean Island by the Japanese and who died in exile, and European officials who were murdered, and (right) the camp site of Sir Albert Ellis when he was first prospecting Ocean Island in May, 1900. At that spot the British flag was first flown.—Lower photos: Australian News and Information.
FIJI: This stone cairn and plaque is in one corner of Albert Park, Suva, where Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's plane "Southern Cross" put down during the first Pacific air crossing. The air craft passed over this spot before alighting.
NEW GUINEA; This lighthouse in Madang, is also a memorial to those coastwatchers who gave their lives behind the Japanese lines during the Pacific war.