Berlinhafen
| Berlin Harbor Berlinhafen (former name) |
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| Waters | Bismarcksee | |
| Land mass | New Guinea | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 14 '12 " S , 142 ° 21' 7" E | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| depth | 1 km | |
| Islands | Tumleo Island | |
Berlinhafen (also Berlinreede or Berlin Rhede ) was a (today no longer in use or unofficial) name for a bay on the north coast of Papua New Guinea . The bay is now known as Berlin Harbor .
history
Berlinhafen was a center of the copra economy during the German colonial era . The New Guinea Company and independent planters owned coconut palm plantations in the area.
In 1903 the Catholic mission station Sankt Anna der Steyler Mission was founded in Berlinhafen . The mission station developed rapidly economically.
The North German Lloyd ran Berlin harbor with its Reichspostdampfer Manila for the acquisition of copra from coconut plantations on a regular basis.
Since 1907, the administrative headquarters of the Eitapé station (today Aitape ), which was in the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen district in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland , the German part of the island of New Guinea , had been on the coast of Berlinhafen .
literature
Keyword: Berlinhafen. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume I, p. 184 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Minssen: Machine attention! Linen go! - Ten years leader of the imperial mail steamer “Manila” , Scherl Verlag, Berlin 1944, pages 124–129.