Editing Lae (section)

=== Mount Lunaman ===

Mount Lunaman is {{convert|96|m}} high and has a radio tower at the highest point marked by red fixed obstruction lights to assist navigation.<ref>{{cite book|title=Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 New Guinea Enroute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TnHGVP_BfgUC&pg=PR3|date=1 January 2004|publisher=ProStar Publications|isbn=978-1-57785-569-9|page=164}}</ref> At the base of Mount Lunaman at the southern and south-eastern face are the suburbs of Voco Point and Chinatown. The terraces are located to the West of Mount Lunaman.

Mount Lunaman is known to the locals as ''Lo' Wamung'', which means "first hill",<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Lonely Planet|title=Mt Lunaman|url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/papua-new-guinea/morobe-and-madang-provinces/lae/sights/natural-landmarks/mt-lunaman|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> ''Hospital Hill''<ref name="Laffin1956">{{cite book|author=John Laffin|title=Return to Glory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTwHAQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Angus and Robertson|page=77}}</ref> and Fortress Hill by the German settlers.<ref>{{cite book|title=Fodor's Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9b26AAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=D. McKay|page=574|isbn = 978-0-679-01598-7}}</ref>

Mount Lunaman and the Lae urban area have been the subject of several tectonic studies relating to plate shift.<ref name="Crook Pages 105–118">{{cite journal|last=Crook|first=Keith A.W|title=Quaternary uplift rates at a plate boundary, Lae urban area, Papua New Guinea|journal=Tectonophysics|date=10 June 1989|volume=163|issue=1,2|pages=105–118|doi=10.1016/0040-1951(89)90121-2|bibcode=1989Tectp.163..105C}}</ref>

Mount Lunaman was an important landmark for both Japanese and the Allies:
:"The men of the South Australian battalion hammered and sawed vigorously at the top of the terrace. They were reconstructing, with captured Japanese tools, the skeleton of the cottage formerly used as the Japanese commander's sanctum. A hole beneath the door led by a tunnel to a labyrinth of passages and apertures which honeycombed Mount Lunaman".<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Semmler|editor-first=Clement|title=The war dispatches of Kenneth Slessor, official Australian correspondent, 1940–1944|year=1987|publisher=University of Queensland Press|location=St. Lucia, Qld., Australia|isbn=978-0-7022-2076-0|page=382|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmoNAAAAIAAJ&q=Mount+Lunamen|edition=1. publ.}}</ref>

After the war it was believed that Mount Lunaman contained the remains of many Japanese soldiers who defended Lae using tunnels:
[[File:Japanese tunnel in Mt. Lunaman in Chinatown.jpg|thumb|Still extant Japanese World War II [[Tunnel warfare|tunnel]] in Mt Lunaman. Looking out towards Chinatown.]]
:A Japanese tomb believed to contain bodies of hundreds of Lae defenders was bought by two South Australian men for 1 pound. The tomb lies under Mount Lunaman which is said to house a hospital and when the Japanese in [[Tunnel warfare|tunnels]] refused to surrender to the Australian [[7th Division (Australia)|7th Division]] and [[9th Division (Australia)|9th Division]] troops in 1943 all entrances were sealed.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35768821 |title=Odd Deal at Lae Sales|newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide|date=26 November 1946|page=7|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In a 1971 NHK interview with the Japanese Army commander of Lae, he stated that the tunnels in the hill were only ever used for storage, and the Army had used the Lutheran Malahang Hospital some 10&nbsp;km north of the town.