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    Simpson Harbour is a sheltered harbour of Blanche Bay, on the Gazelle Peninsula in the extreme north of New Britain. The harbour is named after Captain...
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    shield. Rabaul was planned and built around the harbour area known as Simpsonhafen (Simpson Harbour) during the German New Guinea administration, which...
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    (RAAF) airfield near Rabaul, and the nearby flying boat anchorage in Simpson Harbour, which were important for the surveillance of Japanese movements in...
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    Harbour is a harbour near Rabaul in East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. It is located between Praed Point and Matupi Island. Simpson Harbour...
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    with an escort of approximately 100 fighter aircraft – set out from Simpson Harbour in Rabaul. The Allies had detected preparations for the convoy, and...
    56 KB (6,747 words) - 11:36, 8 June 2024
  • Granite Harbour is a British police procedural television drama series set in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is based on an idea by Adriel Luff & Kul Muhay. The...
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    Australian Fleet entering Simpson Harbour in 1914....
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    David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He has played supporting roles in films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005), Awake (2007)...
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    protecting the airfields at Lakunai and Vunakanau and the seaplane base in Simpson Harbour, as well as forming "an advanced observation line" to provide early...
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    Island on 13 August.[citation needed] The destroyers entered Simpson Harbour and Matupi Harbour at night searching for the East Asia Squadron. Landing parties...
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  • Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale, made landfall in Marsh Harbour, tying the record with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane...
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    Ernest Aldrich Simpson (6 May 1897 – 30 November 1958) was an American-born British shipbroker, who was the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later the wife...
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    from VMTB-232 and VMTB-233 took part in a mission to sow mines in Simpson Harbour at Rabaul. The Grumman TBM Avengers were to fly up in three groups...
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    northeastern tip of New Britain in January 1942. Rabaul overlooks Simpson Harbour, a considerable natural anchorage and was ideal for the construction...
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    claims by a Rabaul-based salvage diver that he had seen the wreck in Simpson Harbour back in 1971, in proximity to the wreck of the Japanese merchant ship...
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    succeeded in damaging six of the seven Japanese cruisers present in Simpson Harbour, ending the Japanese threat to the Bougainville landings. A following...
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    entering Blanche Bay on 12 August, while several destroyers also entered Simpson Harbour. Landing parties went ashore to demolish the telephones in the post...
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    naval base for the Solomon Islands campaign and New Guinea campaign. Simpson Harbour—captured from Australian forces in February 1942—was known as "the...
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    Australia leading the Australian Squadron into Simpson Harbour, Rabaul on 12 September 1914...
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  • Karavia Bay is a bay near Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Simpson Harbour is located to the north, while to the east is Blanche Bay. The naval...
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