Kieta
Coordinates: 6 ° 12 ′ S , 155 ° 37 ′ E
Kieta is the main port of the province and island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and at the same time the namesake of the surrounding government district. The place is near the provincial capital Arawa .
history
By an agreement concluded on May 17, 1885 between Germany and the United Kingdom , the islands of Bougainville and Buka came under the German sphere of interest. On September 20, 1905, a German government station with a post office and customs office was built in Kieta , led by August Doellinger . Since 1902 there was a Catholic mission station of the Marists in Kieta . Richard Parkinson stayed in Kieta, among others, during his South Seas voyages.
Much of the city was destroyed in the civil war of the 1990s.
Culture
A number of Papuan languages are spoken in the Kieta District. See u. a. Naasioi .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kieta , in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume II, Leipzig 1920, p. 293.
- ↑ Jane Resture: Bougainville History, 1999