Munda is the largest settlement on New Georgia Island in Solomon Islands' Western Province, overlooking the Roviana Lagoon. Japan built an airstrip there in November 1942 to support the Guadalcanal campaign, and Allied forces captured it after heavy fighting in the Battle of Munda Point in August 1943. The wartime airstrip is now Munda Airport, upgraded with New Zealand development funding in 2013 and 2017, and the town has become a diving and World War II heritage destination.
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1. GeoNames: Munda
GeoNames geonameid 2105575 (Munda), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -8.25, 157.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -8.25, 157.25
-8.25 157.25 Af
3. GeoNames: Munda - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2105575, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2105575, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-8.32799 157.26652 P PPL SB 11 0215 3144 8 Pacific/Guadalcanal
Munda (Wikipedia)
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