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Central and Southwestern Pacific Ocean
Central and Southwestern Pacific Ocean © 1996 Brandon Plewe
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Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Western Islands
Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the
Western Islands
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War time map of The Bismarck Archipelago
War time map of the Bismarck Archipelago and some of the
Western Islands (Wuvulu, Aua, Manu and the Anchorites islands are not shown)
Source: U.S. Army Center of Military History - War Department, March 1947, General Order No. 24, CAMPAIGNS, WORLD WAR II-List of battles and compaigns, ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATER, 14. Bismarck Archipelago. (Fig. 14.)
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The Western Islands and
Manus Island
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The Western Islands
The Western Islands
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Early Maps
Descripcion de las Indias del Poniente by Antonio
de Herrera, Madrid 1601
The oldest known map of New Guinea and the Western
Islands
Nova Guinea—The First Map of New Guinea, 1600 • Portuguese Hemisphere (left) and Spanish Hemisphere (right)
from George Collingridge de Tourcey's 1906 "The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea"
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