Why is the Kokoda Trail so celebrated in Australia?
The Kokoda Track itself is a single-file track starting just outside Port Moresby on the Coral Sea and (depending on definition) runs 60–100 kilometres (37–62 mi) through the Owen Stanley Ranges to Kokoda and the coastal lowlands beyond by the Solomon Sea. The track crosses some of the most rugged and isolated terrain in the world, reaches 2,250 metres (7,380 ft) at Mount Bellamy, and combines hot humid days with intensely cold nights, torrential rainfall and endemic tropical diseases such as malaria. The track is passable only on foot; this had extreme repercussions for logistics, the size of forces and the type of warfare that could be conducted. Basically, Kokoda is in Papua New Guinea, which during World War II was an Australian Territory. The Japanese invaded it July 1942. It was one of the bloodiest Australian campaigns of World War II and is well remembered because a little under 1500 Australian troops of the 21st Brigade managed to stop an onslaught of over 10,000 Japanese sold
