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unusual facts about Buin


Ornithoptera allotei

allotei was described by Rothschild in 1914 as a species, despite the assertion by its discoverer, Abbé Allotte, a priest at the Buin Mission, Bougainville Island, that it was a natural hybrid.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake

The 1962 Buin Zahra earthquake occurred on September 1, 1962, in the area of Buin Zahra, Qazvin Province, Iran.

Kahili

Kahili Airfield, also known as Buin Airfield, an airfield on Bougainville Island during World War II

Manuel García Banqueda

During the War of the Confederation he fought at the battles of Portada de Guías (1838), Chiquián, Buin, Yungay (1839), and in the capture of Lima.

T1-323

On 18 April 1943, T1-323, a Mitsubishi G4M1 (model 11) "Betty" long-range bomber, and a sister craft departed from Rabaul, were headed to Bougainville in the Solomon Islands off New Guinea, when a task group of P-38s intercepted and downed the planes over Buin, a large Japanese army base in southern Bougainville.


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