| Alternate Base Name(s): | Unknown | | Island Name/Chain: | Dutch New Guinea/New Guinea | | Field Type: | Airfield | | Long/Lat | 4° 46' 9" S / 136° 32' 15" E | Occupying force:| According to the book \"Kamoro: Between the Tides in Irian Jaya\" by David Pickell (Singapore: Periplus, 2001): \"This site was the easternmost outpost of the Japanese Imperial Navy along the south coast of New Guinea...though the airstrip at Keakwa was never to have any real strategic importance. According to a Dutch account, the Japanese landed only a single airplane there. The strip [is] too overgrown and low-lying to be useful [today].\" This is apparently a different airstrip than Kokonau (also used by the Japanese?), located approx. 11 kilometers to the NW. Pickell says \"if you walk along the beach from Keakwa, heading SE, in about three kilometers you reach the broad mouth of the Timika River. Just across this estuary, about a kilometer away, is the village of Timika Pantai...if you turn around and head into the forest just thirty meters, you will find yourself in...an old overgrown airstrip.\" | | | Source: | J.B. Burnett. Pickell, D. (2001). Kamoro: Between the Tides in Irian Jaya. Singapore: Periplus Ltd. Page 60-61. | | Information Contributed by: | John Burnett |
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