Port Moresby
Port Moresby Capital of Papua New Guinea, on the se coast of New Guinea. Settled by the British in the 1880s, its sheltered harbour was the site of an important Allied base in World War II. It developed rapidly in the post-war period. Exports: gold, copper, rubber. Pop. (2000) 252,000.
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