Jacquinot Bay is a bay in East New Britain Province, south-eastern New Britain, Papua New Guinea, at 5°34′00″S 151°30′00″E / 5.5666667°S 151.5°E. It is near the mountain where twenty-eight people died when a Royal Australian Air Force plane crashed in November 1945.[1] To its west is the Gasmata Bay and the Wide Bay and Rabaul Bay are situated to the north-east.[2]
Before the Second World War, a palm tree plantation was started here, known as Palmalmal Plantation (Pal Mal Mal). The area also had a Catholic Mission, headed by Father Edward Charles "Ted" Harris.[2]
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- ^ a b "Jacquinot Bay". Pacific Wrecks Incorporated. Retrieved 14 February 2013.