Kokoda Trail ???

[ele__13]

Now lisitening to Lawsy this morning they are wafffleing on about the Kokoda Trail is it a trail or is it a track ... My gran's brothers served over there and it was always a Trail wats your idea ???? cheers jules


its the Trail


its a Track

[Mirboo]

I've heard it refered to as both a track and a trail. I always thought trail was the correct term though.

[Simomatra]

This link to the Australian War Memorial should help

http://www.awm.gov.au/Encyclopedia/kokoda/index.htm

[CameronPotter]

I would say it doesn't really matter so long as people don't refer to it as the Kokoda Boardwalk...

(But I reckon it is trail).

Cam

[oges]

What does the street errr trail sign say?

I have always heard it referred to as Trail, cant recall hearing Track before

[ss_11000]

i've only ever heard of the kokoda trail ( only found out about it the other day and read thru a few sites) but i dont think it really matters

[Wood Borer]

Last and only time I've been there all the signs say Kokoda Trail.

If anyone wants a photo let me know and I'll post one or two.

[masoth]

TRACK !!!!!!!
Because I'm Australian.

soth

[doug the slug]

Last and only time I've been there all the signs say Kokoda Trail.

If anyone wants a photo let me know and I'll post one or two.

Yeah, lets see some piccies please

[Wood Borer]

TRACK !!!!!!!
Because I'm Australian.

soth

I understand your thinking and I agree that Trail is not typically Australian. Birdsville Track, Strezlecki Track ....... certainly not trails.

The Kokoda I have always heard referred to as a Trail by returned soldiers, the locals and the signs say Trail also.

Doug - when I sort out a memory stick for my laptop I shall gladly post them. I didn't walk the track, I only went to the start of it.

[Cliff Rogers]

Track is Oz, Trail is Yank, but...
we were both involved in that war so there is a fair bit of 'cross-over' of terms used.

The fence sitters just call it Kokoda now.

[ozwinner]

I always thought it was trail, but maybe my thoughts have been batstardised by the Yanks, and it is track after all.

Track does sound more Oz than trail.

Al :confused:

[doug the slug]

Track does sound more Oz than trail.

I hate to break the news to some people but the kokoda trail is not on australian soil. Even if Papua new guinea was once an australian protectorate, it has never been a part of Australia and never should be.

As a graduate of the Australian Defence Force School Of Languages in both Indonesian and Melanesian Pidgin, and having having devoted many years of my life to providing our government with the best information possible on these areas, I can tell you this.

The population of the region involved have referred to it as the Kokoda trail since their introduction to the english language and the development of the melanesian Pidgin language. what right do we have to rename it, or even claim a right to do so because we are australian? Its not ours to rename.

I have spoken to many ww2 veterans who fought on the Kokoda Trail, including a great uncle and not once have i heard a veteran refer it as anything other than the Kokoda TRAIL.

[ozwinner]

I always thought it was trail, but maybe my thoughts have been batstardised by the Yanks, and it is track after all.

Track does sound more Oz than trail.

Al :confused:

Like I said Doug.

Al

[macca2]

Has always been trail even though it may sound yanky