Kokoda Track Terrain
Kokoda Track Terrain
The Kokoda Trail or Track is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres overland — 60 kilometres in a straight line — through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea. It was initially a series of interconnecting small trails used as a mail route to supply settlements around Kokoda. It was along this track, which crossed incredibly rugged and isolated terrain, that the Australian troops repelled the highly-trained Japanese invasion force. The length of the Kokoda Track was not measured in distance, but in how many hours it took to traverse. Soldiers were challenged by steep, treacherous inclines, deep valleys, dense jungle, a debilitating climate and drenching rain that frequently turned the ground into quagmire which gave it a quicksand feeling and made it very difficult to walk.
As seen in source 1.0 and source 1.1, the Kokoda track has many hills and plainly, trekking it will take a lot of a person’s energy and will. On average it takes a person 4 – 12 days to finish depending on fitness and resting time.
The rain will find you at any height and cloud will sometimes descend to 1000 metres, giving the feeling of walking through thick mist. In the Mt Bellamy - Templeton's Crossing region the track rises to over 2000 metres above sea level at Mount Bellamy. Here temperatures can drop at night to as low as five degrees centigrade. Hot, humid days with intensely cold nights, torrential rainfall and the risk of endemic tropical diseases such as malaria make it a challenge to walk. Despite the challenge posed it is a popular hike that takes between four and twelve days (depending on fitness). Locals have been known to hike the route in one to three days.
The soldiers there all struggled to have sleep which weakened them. The Kokoda track was so harsh that it captured many lives from both sides and left others starving. All in all the Kokoda Track was no stroll in the park.
The Kokoda Trail or Track is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres overland — 60 kilometres in a straight line — through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea. It was initially a series of interconnecting small trails used as a mail route to supply settlements around Kokoda. It was along this track, which crossed incredibly rugged and isolated terrain, that the Australian troops repelled the highly-trained Japanese invasion force. The length of the Kokoda Track was not measured in distance, but in how many hours it took to traverse. Soldiers were challenged by steep, treacherous inclines, deep valleys, dense jungle, a debilitating climate and drenching rain that frequently turned the ground into quagmire which gave it a quicksand feeling and made it very difficult to walk.
As seen in source 1.0 and source 1.1, the Kokoda track has many hills and plainly, trekking it will take a lot of a person’s energy and will. On average it takes a person 4 – 12 days to finish depending on fitness and resting time.
The rain will find you at any height and cloud will sometimes descend to 1000 metres, giving the feeling of walking through thick mist. In the Mt Bellamy - Templeton's Crossing region the track rises to over 2000 metres above sea level at Mount Bellamy. Here temperatures can drop at night to as low as five degrees centigrade. Hot, humid days with intensely cold nights, torrential rainfall and the risk of endemic tropical diseases such as malaria make it a challenge to walk. Despite the challenge posed it is a popular hike that takes between four and twelve days (depending on fitness). Locals have been known to hike the route in one to three days.
The soldiers there all struggled to have sleep which weakened them. The Kokoda track was so harsh that it captured many lives from both sides and left others starving. All in all the Kokoda Track was no stroll in the park.