Soraken is a village on the Soraken Peninsula in Bouganville, an island of Papua New Guinea. In January 1913, a copra plantation and a railway system 21 kilometres (13 mi) in length was created by Choiseul Plantations near the site, since in a state of disrepair. The village suffered damage during the Bougainville Civil War.
![Thumb](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Two_men_wearing_Ombu%2C_ceremonial_initiation_hats%2C_Soraken%2C_Bougainville_Island.jpg/640px-Two_men_wearing_Ombu%2C_ceremonial_initiation_hats%2C_Soraken%2C_Bougainville_Island.jpg)
During World War II, the village was occupied by the Japanese in 1942 and liberated in 1945, when the Australian 11th Brigade pushed north to take the Soraken Peninsula.[1][2]
References
External links
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.