World War II Pacific
Wrecks
The South Pacific Regional Environment
Programme (SPREP), under its Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL)
formulated a Regional Strategy to address the issues related to World War II
wrecks in the Pacific. This CD-Rom contains all the relevant regional and
country by country level information relating to World War II wrecks in the
Pacific.
Click on the links on the bottom of the page to see either regional or
country by country information.
The SPREP WWII Shipwrecks of the Pacific database currently stands at 3855 vessels sunk in the Pacific region during World War II. This equates to over 13 million tons of vessel sitting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
CLICK HERE FOR A COPY OF THE REGIONAL STRATEGY
The information contained in these pages should always be considered “work in progress”, and is based on the latest information that is available. Some information may be inaccurate and if so please advise the authors. Please go to the Contact Us page to do this. The information in the SPREP database of WWII wrecks in the Pacific is updated regularly as information becomes available to the authors.
