Finschhafen
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 Papua New Guinea
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 Morobe
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| Founded : | 1884 | ||
| Coordinates : | 6 ° 36 ′ S , 147 ° 51 ′ E | ||
| Area : | 2,771 km² | ||
| Residents : | 45,287 (2003) | ||
| Population density : | 16 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | AEST (UTC + 10) | ||
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Finschhafen is a district on the coral reefs northeast coast of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea . It is named after the port city of the same name, which was founded in 1885 as a trading post for the New Guinea company supported by private German investors . Finschhafen is located on the Solomon Sea northeast of the Huon Golf near the village of Sattelberg on Cape Kretin.
The district consists of five "areas at the local administrative level", Local Level Government (LLG) Areas , which are divided into Rural (rural) or Urban (urban) LLGs. They are the Hube Rural LLG , the Kotte Rural LLG , the Finschhafen Urban LLG , the Yabim-Mape Rural LLG and the Burum-Kuat Rural LLG . The district administration is located in the Gagidu government station, which is located in Yabim Mape LLG . Sattelberg is the main town of the Kotte Rural LLG .
The district covers about 2,771 km², in 2003 45,287 inhabitants lived in the district of Finschhafen.
history
The natural harbor was discovered in 1884 by the German explorer Otto Finsch . The place named after Finsch was established at the end of 1885 as a post of the New Guinea company. From 1886 to 1891 Finschhafen was the main town of the company. In 1891 the settlement was abandoned because of a malaria epidemic, which also killed the company's general manager, and was only re-established ten years later, in 1901.
In July 1886, the moved neulutherische Neuendettelsauer Mission in Simbang at Finschhafen. The house of the Lutheran Mission Society still exists from the German colonial times . The Braun Memorial Hospital has been located in Butaweng in Finschhafen since 1974 and is operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea .
From 1908 to 1910, the Berlin doctor Richard Neuhauss conducted research at the Huongolf and made 139 music recordings on phonograph cylinders with the Edison phonograph , most of them among peoples in the area around Finschhafen. The recordings that have been preserved document a part of New Guinea's music that was barely influenced by the Christian mission and has now disappeared .
During the Second World War , Finschhafen was fiercely contested between the Japanese and the Americans . Many houses were destroyed and the city a little further away, near the military airfield built by Japanese soldiers , was rebuilt. The airport was expanded after the American conquest and became an important base for the US Army , where mainly units with African American soldiers were stationed. The city is also known today for this civilian airport (abbreviation FIN). The military airfield was mostly written as “Finschafen” by the US Army administration, occasionally “Finschaven” is also in use, and “Finschaffen” is often found in the local media.
The more common way to Finschhafen, however, is by ship; From Lae there are regular ferries to the port in Buki. On February 2, 2012, the ferry Rabaul Queen capsized and sank in a storm about nine nautical miles north-northeast of Finschhafen, killing more than 300 people.
Mainly bush paths lead from Finschhafen inland.
Individual evidence
- ^ National Statistical Office of Papua New Guinea
- ↑ Situational Analysis for Strategic Planning at District Level, Morobe Province ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 794 kB) National AIDS Council Papua New Guinea, 2005, ISBN 9980-86-010-3 , p. 153
- ^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume I, p. 626.
- ↑ Dieter Christensen: The music of Kate and Sialum. Contributions to the music of New Guinea. Diss. Free University of Berlin 1957, pp. 7, 22
