This audio journey is more than a topographical guide; it is an immersive, cinematic retelling of the 1942 Kokoda campaign, triggered stop by stop as you walk the very ground where it unfolded. From the first desperate fall of Kokoda Village to the sacred rows of Bomana War Cemetery, you stand inside the perimeter alongside the men who held the line.
You’ll meet the real figures of the track: sixty-year-old, near-deaf Gallipoli veteran “Doc” Vernon laying out his morphine; Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner steadying a broken battalion at Isurava; Private Bruce Kingsbury, whose lone charge earned the first Victoria Cross awarded on Australian territory; and the three Manusu brothers of Bowraville, whose family was shattered at Eora Creek. Each location reconstructs the geography, the tactics, and the human cost — drawn from the soldiers’ own experiences.
Listen to Stop #3, Isurava, for the four days of fighting that produced 99 dead and 111 wounded — and the moment a half-strength militia of “chocos” held the post of honour until the AIF arrived.
96 km, 8–10 days, ~5,000 m ascent and descent, peaking at 2,490 m near Mount Bellamy.
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Bomana War Cemetery is the largest war cemetery in the Pacific, holding over 3,800 Commonwealth servicemen and women — over half of them unidentified.
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