Kokopo

Kokopo
State :	Papua New Guinea
Province :	East New Britain
Coordinates :	4 ° 21 ′  S , 152 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 21 ′  S , 152 ° 16 ′  E
Residents :	20,262 (2005)
Time zone :	AEST (UTC + 10)
Mayor :	Albert Buanga
Kokopo

View of the landing bridge at Herbertshöhe (before 1910); in the background the volcanoes

Kokopo (until 1919 Herbertshöhe ) is the seventh largest city of Papua New Guinea and the capital of the province of East New Britain on the island of New Britain .

geography

Kokopo is located 30 km from the former provincial capital Rabaul , can be reached on the Kokopo Highway and has an airport.

In 1980 Kokopo had 2,200 inhabitants. After the devastating eruption of the Tavurvur volcano on September 19, 1994, most of Rabaul's residents fled here and settled here permanently. As a result, Kokopo became the provincial capital, as the place offered more security due to its protected location and already had an urban infrastructure . In 2000, Kokopo's population had grown to 20,262, almost ten times that of 1980.

The neighboring village of Vunamami is also counted as part of Kokopo , as both places have grown together through the refugees from Rabaul. Also Vunapope now belongs to Kokopo.

history

At the time of the German New Guinea colony, Kokopo was called Herbertshöhe and was the capital of the entire colony and seat of the governor from 1899 to 1910 .

Emma Kolbe (Queen Emma of the South Pacific) had a house in Kokopo, but it was destroyed during World War II.

The Creole language Unserdeutsch emerged around 1900 near the then city of Herbertshöhe.

Trivia

At this location and on the nearby island of Kabakon, the story of August Engelhardt , who dropped out , takes place , which was processed by the authors Marc Buhl in the novel Das Paradies des August Engelhardt (2011) and Christian Kracht in the novel Imperium (2012).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lexicon entry: Herbertshöhe. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume II, Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 57:
   Quote: “Herbertshöhe, European settlement with large coconut palm plantings on the outer Blanchebucht (Gazelle peninsula on New Pomerania in the Bismarck Archipelago, German- New Guinea) in place of the native village Kokopo and still named Kokopo by the natives, seat of the administrative authorities of the Bismarck Archipelago from 1890–1899, and of the government of German New Guinea from 1899 to 1909 too. "
2. ↑ ^{a b} Isimel Puipui: Kokopo Urban Local Level Government. (PDF; 1 MB; 7 pages with maps) (No longer available online.) In: Local Government Managers Australia. South Melbourne, Australia [undated], archived from the original on April 4, 2011 ; accessed on July 30, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
3. ↑ Unknown author: Sights: Architectural, cultural - Queen Emma's House. In: Lonly Planet. [undated], accessed July 30, 2013 .