Port Moresby
Port Moresby (9°30′S 147°12′E) is the capital city and the main city of Papua New Guinea. In 2000, 255,000 people lived there. The city is on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea.
The area on which the city was built was first sighted by a European in 1873 by Captain John Moresby. It was named in honor of his father Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby.
Port Moresby Media
- A Hiri expedition in the 1990s.jpg
A Hiri expedition arriving in Port Moresby in the 1990s
Queensland raises the British flag at Port Moresby in 1883.
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Douglas Street, Port Moresby: Old hotel lot, vacant for 30 years, and new building behind it
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The longstanding downtown United Church with next door office building in 2013 were replaced with one building, the church on the ground floor.
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Walter Bay from hills immediately east of downtown Port Moresby
description: Ela Beach, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea * source: contributed by the photographer (made in 2004)
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Coastal housing at Hanuabada in Port Moresby
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