Editing Anzac Day (section)

===Pacific Ocean island nations===

* Anzac Day is observed in the [[Cook Islands]], [[Niue]], [[Pitcairn Islands]], and [[Tonga]].{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
* It was previously a national holiday in [[Papua New Guinea]] and [[Samoa]].<ref>Qpp Studio [https://web.archive.org/web/20130119072852/http://www.qppstudio.net/publicholidays2014/papua_new_guinea.htm] Retrieved on 25 April 2014</ref><ref>Air New Zealand International, [http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/176772/samoa-to-commemorate-anzac-day-without-a-public-holiday Samoa to commemorate ANZAC day without a public holiday, 25 April 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614105414/http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/176772/samoa-to-commemorate-anzac-day-without-a-public-holiday |date=14 June 2017 }}</ref> Until 1981 Papua New Guinea commemorated its war dead on Anzac Day; however, since then Remembrance Day has been observed on 23 July, the date of the first action of the [[Papuan Infantry Battalion]] against the Japanese at Awala in 1942 during the [[Kokoda Track campaign]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=Phillip|title=Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and Beyond|publisher=Allen and Unwin|location=Crows Nest, New South Wales|year=2013|edition=Second|page=46|isbn=978-1-74331-755-6}}</ref>
* In [[Kiribati]], Anzac Day is commemorated at the Coast Watchers' Memorial on the islet of [[Betio]] in [[South Tarawa]], the site of a massacre by beheading of New Zealand military and civilian [[coastwatchers]] by Japanese forces prior to US landings in 1943.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-timaru-herald/20120616/282291022308005|access-date=26 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126033326/https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-timaru-herald/20120616/282291022308005|archive-date=26 November 2018|title=Beheaded Kiwi's Memorial|website=The Timaru Herald}}</ref><ref>Source: Australian National Archives; Report on Japanese atrocities at Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands (execution of European prisoners at Betio, Tarawa on or about 15 October 1942), compiled by Major DCI Wernham, District Officer, Gilbert Islands, supplied to Australian government by High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, February 1944.</ref>
* See [[Anzac Day#France]] above for [[French Polynesia]].