Other New Guinea towns were favoured instead, especially Rabaul.
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Australian forces, as part of US Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barbey's task force, landed nearby and seized the town in October 1943.
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The port was discovered (for Europeans) in 1884 by the German researcher Otto Finsch.
He was first elected to the National Parliament in the 2007 general election, as independent MP for Finschhafen District in Morobe Province, though he subsequently joined the People's Progress Party.
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