Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change: USAID will open a Pacific Office in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea before the end of 2011.

New Guinea was in danger of falling and with it Port Moresby, and from there the Imperial Japanese Army could invade Australia.

U. S. Geological Survey measured the quake as a 6.2 level, said the epicenter was located in New England Rabaul (Rabaul) town 201 km northwest from the capital, Port Moresby 794 km.

In the battle, planes launched from Allied aircraft carriers stopped Japanese forces from seizing Port Moresby, New Guinea, Japan's first unsuccessful invasion attempt.

In the battle, planes launched from Allied aircraft carriers stopped Japanese forces from seizing Port Moresby, New Guinea, Japan's first unsuccessful invasion attempt.