Kimanis

Kimanis
	Kimanis
	Kimanis
Coordinates	5 ° 37 ' N , 115 ° 53' E Coordinates: 5 ° 37 ' N , 115 ° 53' E
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
ISO 3166-2	MY-12
Residents	1759 (2010)

Kimanis is a small town in the western part of the Malaysian state of Sabah . Kimanis is located in the West Coast Division , about 45 kilometers south of the state capital Kota Kinabalu and is namesake of Kimanis Bay . Administratively it belongs to the Papar District .

history

Long before Sabah came into the focus of the British, there had already been an American attempt to colonize the country. In August 1865, the American consul Charles Lee Moses had signed a 10-year lease with the Sultan of Brunei Abdul Mumin and with his heir to the throne Pengiran Temenggung, which guaranteed him land rights in various areas of Sabah. Looking to make a quick profit, the consul sold his concessions on September 9, 1865. The new tenants, two American merchants named Joseph William Torrey and Thomas Bradley Harris and the Chinese Wo Hang then founded the American Trading Company of Borneo and decided to set up a colony in Kimanis. In December 1865 Torrey founded the settlement "Ellena" with 12 Americans and 60 Chinese. The plan to make the colony attractive to other settlers through the cultivation of sugar cane, tobacco and rice, however, failed after a short time. As early as 1866, Ellena was given up again due to a lack of capital, lack of labor, revolts among the workers and serious illnesses. Harris died in 1866 and Torrey returned to America in 1883, where he died in Boston, Massachusetts in 1884. Even before the lease expired, Torrey managed to sell his rights to North Borneo to the consul of Austria-Hungary in Hong Kong, the German-born Baron Gustav Overbeck, in January 1875 .

The exact location of Ellena is still unknown, but it is certain that the colony was in the area of today's Kimanis. It is also believed that the wooden shophouses can be traced back to those Chinese who stayed in the region after Ellena was abandoned.

Shop house - the only colonial relic in Kimanis

Historic architecture

Kimanis is one of the towns along the west coast of which little can be seen of the historic buildings. Only a single shop with an extension from before the Second World War has been preserved. Since Kimanis is one of the economically weakest cities on the west coast, the preservation of this shophouse is questionable; the building is already in a state of neglect.

Demographics

According to the last census, the population is 1,759 inhabitants and is composed mainly of Malays and Kadazan-Dusun . It is expected that the settlement of the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) will greatly promote the demographic development of Kimanis in the coming years.

Infrastructure

Kimanis is on the A2 (Pan Borneo Highway) and has a stop on the Kota Kinabalu-Tenom railway line of the Sabah State Railway .

Sabah-Sarawak Integrated Oil and Gas Project

Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) in Kimanis. Aerial photo from May 2014

The Sabah-Sarawak Integrated Oil and Gas Project initiated by Petronas aims to utilize the oil and gas reserves in the offshore production areas off Sabah and Sarawak. One of the main locations of the project is currently being built in Kimanis: The Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) in Kimanis serves as a receiving, storage and export station for oil and natural gas from Sabah's offshore fields. From Kimanis, the natural gas will be transported over 522 kilometers to Bintulu, Sarawak via the future Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline .

literature

KG Tregonning: A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881–1963). 2nd edition. University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965.
Owen Rutter: British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes. Constable & Company, London 1922.
WH Treacher: British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan and North Borneo. Government print department, Singapore 1891.

Web links

Commons : Kimanis - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (Census 2010) (PDF; 1.9 MB), p. 138.
^ DS Ranjit Singh: The Making Of Sabah 1865-1941 - The Dynamics of Indigenous Society. 3rd edition, Kota Kinabalu 2011, pp. 113-115.
^ Richard Nelson Sokial: Colonial Townships in Sabah: West Coast. Homeland Publisher Sdn Bhd, 2012, ISBN 978-983-40734-4-2 , p. 46.
^ The Star: New township for Kimanis , May 8, 2010 issue; Accessed April 19, 2012.

Remarks

↑ The name Claude Lee Moses is also found in the literature, but in the contract with the Sultan Abdul Mumin , notarized by Moses , he uses the first name Charles .

[census2010-1] Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (Census 2010) (PDF; 1.9 MB), p. 138.

[3] DS Ranjit Singh: The Making Of Sabah 1865-1941 - The Dynamics of Indigenous Society. 3rd edition, Kota Kinabalu 2011, pp. 113-115.

[sokial-4] Richard Nelson Sokial: Colonial Townships in Sabah: West Coast. Homeland Publisher Sdn Bhd, 2012, ISBN 978-983-40734-4-2 , p. 46.

[5] The Star: New township for Kimanis , May 8, 2010 issue; Accessed April 19, 2012.

[2] The name Claude Lee Moses is also found in the literature, but in the contract with the Sultan Abdul Mumin , notarized by Moses , he uses the first name Charles .