I was well acquainted with Rabaul long before I went there. As a space shuttle astronaut in the 1990s, I had looked down from Earth orbit on the active volcanoes at this Papua New Guinea site on the ...

Rabaul was one of Japan’s most powerful bases in the South Pacific, packed with troops, airfields, tunnels, artillery, and ...

So, when my husband and his brother, who grew up in Rabaul, Kavieng and Port Moresby in the 1970s, regale me with colourful memories of playing in the ruins of WW2 battlements and tunnels I am ...