White-tailed Eagle Harbor
| Seeadler Harbor Seeadlerhafen (former name) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | Manus | |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 6 ′ S , 147 ° 13 ′ E | |
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| width | approx. 8 km | |
| depth | approx. 12 km | |
| Islands | Los Negros Island (on the northeastern edge), Ndrilo and Koruniat (on the northern edge), Butjo Mokau, Butjo Lang, Rara Islet (within the bay) | |
Eagle Harbor (also Port eagle or in the German colonial era eagles port ) is a bay north of the island of Manus . It is the main island of the Admiralty Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago . Los Negros Island forms the northeastern edge of the port and is separated from Manus Island by the Lonui Passage . The islands of Ndrilo and Koruniat form the northern edge of the port.
history
The bay is named after the ship SMS Seeadler . In January 1900, the German administration sent a punitive expedition to the Admiralty Islands, including Corvette Captain Schack, who called his ship on the island from Herbertshöhe .
On October 25, 1911, a government station was built there. The station staff consisted of the station manager, a police master, a paramedic and 50 local police soldiers . When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the unit stationed there destroyed the buildings before the Australians occupied the islands.
In April 1942, Japanese units occupied the island and expanded the port. The port was occupied by the Americans as part of Operation Brewer . There they built an important naval base for the conquest of the Japanese fortress Rabaul and the conquest of the Philippines . An air force base was established on the island and the Lombrum Seaplane Base on the edge .
A disaster occurred on November 10, 1944 when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood exploded, killing numerous sailors and sinking some ships.
After the war the base was cleared by the Americans. In the bay, however, there are still shipwrecks that bear witness to the fierce fighting.
literature
- Seeadlerhafen, in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, Volume III, Leipzig 1920, p. 328.
Web links
- Sea Eagle Harbor on PacificWrecks.com . Retrieved August 1, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Reche: Results of the Sudsee Expedition 1908–1910 . P. 38
- ↑ Peter J. Hempenstall: rule Pacific Islanders under German . P. 157
- ^ Admiralty Islands , in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Vol. I, Leipzig 1920, p. 12 ff.