Monumbo Bay

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Monumbo Bay
Potsdamhafen (former name)
Waters Bismarcksee
Land mass New Guinea
Geographical location 4 ° 13 '12 "  S , 144 ° 55' 48"  E Coordinates: 4 ° 13 '12 "  S , 144 ° 55' 48"  E
Monumbo Bay (Papua New Guinea)
Monumbo Bay
Islands Malagere Iceland

The Monumbo Bay (in the German colonial era Potsdam Harbor ) is a bay in northwest Papua New Guinea in the district Bogia.

history

During the German colonial days in New Guinea , the bay was discovered by Georg von Schleinitz in 1886 . The bay lies in front of a mountain range on a narrow plain. In the east, the island of Malagere Island closes the bay.

The New Guinea Company operated large coconut and rubber tree plantations in the area during German times . In the center of the bay, the Steyler Mission settled with its Monumbo branch, which has operated large plantations since it was founded in 1899.

In the sheltered western part of the bay there was a small jetty for the shipment of copra . The North German Lloyd ran Potsdam port with its Reichspostdampfer Manila on for the acquisition of copra and other products of the plantations.

literature

Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume III, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 95.

Individual evidence

  1. Yuat - Sepik Figure private webpage of a gallery that deals with art objects from the region
  2. Hans Minssen: Machine attention! Linen go! - Ten years leader of the imperial mail steamer “Manila” , Scherl Verlag, Berlin 1944, pages 124–129.