Toma (Papua New Guinea)

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Toma is a place on the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain (German formerly Neupommern) in the Bismarck Archipelago , which is now part of Papua New Guinea . It is located 13 kilometers inland from Kokopo (German Herbertshöhe).

On August 6, 1914, the governor's seat of German New Guinea was moved from Rabaul to Toma. The place had a police station, a radio station, a rest home and a Bismarck tower. To the west is the Varzinberg . After the lost battle at Bita Paka on September 11, 1914, the last German defenders under Eduard Haber retreated to Toma and capitulated on September 17, 1914.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.pangloss.de/cms/index.php?page=papua-neuguinea
  2. ↑ https://www.bismarcktuerme.de/ebene4/uebers/neugui.html

Coordinates: 4 ° 22 ′ 35.3 "  S , 152 ° 11 ′ 33.2"  E