Saint Marys Bay, New Zealand Saint Marys Bay, New Zealand Saint Marys Bay is an inner suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand. mid-1840s George Scott farms the land where Three Lamps is now. 1853 For £1100 Catholic Bishop Pompallier purchases in the area between Three Lamps and the shoreline from James O’Neill, christening it Mount Saint Mary. 1854 O’Neill’s house becomes St. Anne’s School for Maori Girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Responding to a Maori request for holy women to teach the children, the sisters of Mercy arrived in Auckland from Ireland in 1850 already fluent in the Maori language. Their first school
Jacquinot Bay Airport Royal Australian Air Force units based here included: Royal New Zealand Air Force units based here included: Following the Japanese surrender several Japanese aircraft were flown from Vunakanau Airfield to Jacquinot Bay Airfield. On 15 November 1945 an RAAF C-47 #13339 crashed into a mountain on a flight from Jacquinot Bay to Rabaul, all 28 passengers and crew were killed. The airport has one runway which measures in length. Jacquinot Bay Airport Jacquinot Bay Airport is an airport near Jacquinot Bay in the East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. The airstrip was