Erimba
Coordinates: 5 ° 28 ′ S , 145 ° 55 ′ E
Erimba (formerly Konstantinhafen, also Rimba) is a small place on the northeast coast of the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea , south of Stephansort on the Bismarck Sea . A few kilometers west of Erimba the river Kabenau flows into Astrolabe Bay .
history
On September 17, 1871, the Russian corvette Vityas anchored in the natural harbor . The Russian researcher Nikolai Miklucho-Maklai went ashore here for the first time. He named the place Konstantinhafen after the Russian Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Romanow . Miklucho-Maklai, who knew how to win the trust of the locals living here, initially stayed for 15 months to do scientific, geological , anthropological and sociological research.
On behalf of the Hamburg New Guinea Consortium (later renamed New Guinea Company ) by Adolph von Hansemann , Otto Finsch toured the north coast of New Guinea with Captain Eduard Dallmann in 1884 and 1885 and concluded contracts for land acquisitions. On October 17, 1884, the crews of the German warships SMS Elisabeth and SMS Hyäne hoisted the German flag in Konstantinhafen.
It lasted until 1886 when a settlement was first built in Konstantinhafen. It was created as a secondary station for the important plantation of Stephansort. In 1896 Konstantinhafen was connected to Stephansort, Erimahafen and Bogadjim by the narrow-gauge field railway network and towards the end of the 19th century was mainly in demand as an experimental plantation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Constantine Harbor . In: German Colonial Lexicon. 1920, Volume II, p. 357.
- ↑ Maximilian Krieger (Ed.): New Guinea. (Series: Bibliothek der Länderkunde. ) Alfred Schall, Berlin 1899. p. 238.
- ↑ Maximilian Krieger (Ed.): New Guinea. (Series: Bibliothek der Länderkunde. ) Alfred Schall, Berlin 1899. p. 237.