Cape Gloucester

Cape Gloucester

Cape Gloucester (also known as Tuluvu) is a headland, in the northwest of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, at coord|5|27|S|148|25|E |display=title,inline. It was the site of the Battle of Cape Gloucester, part of Operation Cartwheel, in 1943.


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