NAVAL BASES IN PACIFIC
IMMENSE DISTANCES
Naval strategy in the Pacific is governed by the immense distances Separating the land masses, and thus separating the available fuelling and supply stations. Pearl Harbour, in Honolulu, may be taken as the Strategic centre of United States operations, just as Singapore is the strategic centre for the British Navy. Japan has several naval bases on lier east coast, and it is not known which is the strategic centre, but Yokohama is generally regarded as the principal port. Some of the immense ocean distances between these three bases and others in the Pacific are:— Miles Yokohama to Auckland . . 5020 Yokohama to Honolulu .. 3394 Honolulu to' Guam ...... 3337 Yokohama to Sydney .... 4375 Sydney to Honolulu 4420' Yokohama to Apia 4057 Yokohama to Suva 3870 Yokohama to Midway Is. 2250 Honolulu to Suva 2783 Yokohama to Hong Kong 1585 [ Yokohama to Vancouver . . 4262 Honolulu to Midway Is. ..1149 Shanghai to Hong Kong .. 852 Hong Kong to Manila 631 Hong Kong to Singapore 1440 Hong Kong to Sydney .. 4497 Japan is helped by the possession of bases in the mandated territories of the Caroline, Marshall and Maritime Islands which bring her closer to the United States bases in the Philippines and at Guam.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 198, 31 December 1941, Page 3
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206NAVAL BASES IN PACIFIC Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 198, 31 December 1941, Page 3
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