Piva "Uncle" & Piva "Yoke" airstrips
| school, abandoned / shut down
Papua New Guinea /
North Solomons /
Panguna /
World
/ Papua New Guinea
/ North Solomons
/ Panguna
World / Papua New Guinea / North Solomons
school, abandoned / shut down
Bougainville and Rabaul Campaigns, 1943-44. These two now abandoned airstrips formed a staging point for air raids on Japanese held Rabaul and other points in the northern Solomons during the campaigns of 1943-1944. USMC, USN, RNZAF & RAAF units all based at the fields at one time or another. Bombers were predominately based at Piva "Uncle," the northernmost strip. Fighters based at Piva "Yoke" to the south.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 6°12'14"S 155°3'32"E
- Bishop Wade Secondary School 89 km
- Kambubu Adventist Secondary School 350 km
- Boliu Adventist Primary School 796 km
- Sogeri National High School 915 km
- Mt Diamond Adventist High School 928 km
- Gordons National High School 940 km
- Administrative College 940 km
- Port Moresby National High School 940 km
- University of PNG School of Medicine & Health Sciences 941 km
- IDUABADA TECHNICAL COLLEGE 944 km
- Empress Augusta Bay 24 km
- Mt. U/N 27 km
- Bougainville 30 km
- Balbi Volcano (2715 m) 33 km
- Mt. Tore (2180 m) 45 km
- Autonomous Region of Bougainville 65 km
- Takuan Volcano Complex 68 km
- Shortland Island 121 km
- Ovau 125 km
- Fauro 137 km
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