The track was first used by European miners in the 1890s to access the Yodda Kokoda goldfields. Between July 1942 and November 1942, a series of battles, afterwards called the, was fought between the and forces. This action was memorialised in the , filmed by cameraman, which won 's first for its director in 1942.
This is a list of projects in. While are used to connect countries and continents to the, are used to extend this connectivity to landlocked countries or to urban centers within a country that has submarine cable access. In most of the world, a large number of such cables exist, often amounting to robust.