Mount Austen | |
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Suburb | |
  Mount Austen Location in Guadalcanal | |
| Coordinates: 9°26′S159°57′E / 9.433°S 159.950°E | |
| Country |  Solomon Islands |
| Province | Honiara Town |
| Island | Guadalcanal |
| Elevation | 29 m (95 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+11 (UTC) |
Mount Austen is a suburb of Honiara, Solomon Islands and is located South of Kukum.
Mt. Austen is a natural and peaceful area, but with a notable exception a large force of U.S. and Japanese troops engaged in fierce battles from December 1942 to January 1943. [1]
The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse, part of which is sometimes called the Battle of the Gifu, took place from 15 December 1942 to 23 January 1943 and was primarily an engagement between United States and Imperial Japanese forces in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign. The U.S. forces were under the overall command of Major General Alexander Patch and the Japanese forces were under the overall command of Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake.
The Japanese destroyer Yūnagi was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the occupation of the Gilbert Islands and the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and then the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942.
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8°46′S160°42′E / 8.767°S 160.700°E
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