For the World War II campaign, see Kokoda Track campaign.
Trail in Papua New Guinea
The Kokoda Track
Length
96 km (60 mi)
Location
Papua New Guinea
Trailheads
Kokoda / Owers' Corner
Use
Walking
Highest point
Mount Bellamy, 2,490 m (8,170 ft)
Lowest point
Ua'Ule Creek, 300 m (980 ft)
Difficulty
Hard
Season
All
Sights
WWII History, Jungle, Mountains
Location of the Kokoda Track within Papua New GuineaMap of the Kokoda Track as it was in 1942. The map is rotated to have NE bearing at the top of the page.
The Kokoda Track or Trail is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres (60 mi) overland – 60 kilometres (37 mi) in a straight line – through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The track was the location of the 1942 World War II battle between Japanese and Allied – primarily Australian – forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua.
The track runs from Owers' Corner in Central Province, 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Port Moresby, across rugged and isolated terrain which is only passable on foot, to the village of Kokoda in Oro Province. It reaches a height of 2,490 metres (8,169 ft) as it passes around the peak of Mount Bellamy.[1] The track travels primarily through the land of the Mountain Koiari people.
Hot, humid days with intensely cold nights, torrential rainfall and the risk of endemic tropical diseases such as malaria make it a challenging trek. Hiking the trail normally takes between four and twelve days; the fastest recorded time is 16 hours 34 minutes.
^Pérusse, Yvon (July 1993). Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea (2 ed.). Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, Berkeley, Calif: Lonely Planet. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-86442-052-7.
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