The wharf at Daruba, the main settlement on Morotai, a sparsely-developed island in the Halmahera group of eastern Indonesia's Maluku Islands (1989). In 1945 this remote island - now rarely visited by outsiders - became a major staging point in the Pacific Campaign as Allied forces mopped up the occupying Japanese forces. Thousands of Allied servicemen passed through the base on the island's southern extremity.

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