Wau (Papua New Guinea)
Coordinates: 7 ° 21 ′ S , 146 ° 43 ′ E
Wau is a city in Papua New Guinea in the province of Morobe . Together with the neighboring timber industry town of Bulolo, it has 12,912 inhabitants.
Like Bulolo, Wau was one of the boomtowns of the Papuan gold rush of the 1920s and 1930s. It is about 1000 meters high in the Finisterre Range . The place with its pine forests is very pretty and the climate with its cool nights is pleasant. The architecture of many of the gold rush and colonial style houses make it historically interesting.
Wau Airport, with its extremely steep runway, was the one with the most landings in the world during the gold rush period in 1937 and 1938.