Moewe Harbor
| Moewe Harbor Möwehafen (former name) |
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| Waters | Solomon Lake | |
| Land mass | New Britain | |
| Geographical location | 6 ° 12 '36 " S , 149 ° 32' 24" O | |
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| width | approx. 3 km | |
| depth | approx. 1 km | |
| Islands | Coral reefs offshore, southwest: Ganglo Island , south: Ais Islet | |
| Tributaries | Ais River | |
Moewe Harbor ( called Möwehafen in German colonial times ) is a bay on the south coast of New Britain west of Cape Anukur, the southernmost point of the island. The bay is in the West New Britain province of Papua New Guinea .
The bay belongs to the Solomon Sea and is about 1 km wide and about 3 km long. The city of Kandrian , capital of the Kandrian-Gloucester District, lies on its eastern edge. Offshore coral reefs as well as Ganglo Island in the southwest limit the access to the bay, but at the same time offer protection to ships anchoring there.
The bay is named after the gunboat of the Imperial Navy SMS Möwe , which was the first to examine the bay in more detail in 1895. In 1896 the German explorer Richard Parkinson went on an excursion from Möwehafen.
literature
- Keyword: Moewe Harbor. Online in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, Volume II, Leipzig 1920, p. 594.
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Parkinson: Thirty Years in the South Seas: Land and People, Customs and Traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands. Sydney University Press. 2010. ISBN 978 192 08996 39 . Page 13.