Wewak

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Wewak
State : Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea
Province : Flag of East Sepik.png East Sepik
Coordinates : 3 ° 35 ′  S , 143 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 3 ° 35 ′  S , 143 ° 39 ′  E
 
Residents : 37,825 (2011)
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Wewak (Papua New Guinea)
Wewak
Wewak

Wewak (German: Dallmannhafen ) is a port city in the north of Papua New Guinea and with 37,825 inhabitants (as of 2011) the largest city and capital of the East Sepik province .

Wewak
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: PNG National Weather Service
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Wewak
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 30.8 30.5 30.7 30.7 31.0 30.8 30.5 30.5 30.8 30.9 31.0 30.8 O 30.8
Min. Temperature (° C) 24.0 23.8 23.9 24.0 24.1 23.9 23.5 23.5 23.7 23.9 24.0 23.9 O 23.8
Precipitation ( mm ) 130.8 124.2 168.8 186.4 220.2 192.2 177.8 141.4 167.2 224.3 188.8 161.0 Σ 2,083.1
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Economy and Transport

One of Wewak's beaches

The port is important for the economy and plays an important role for the foreign trade of the entire province. Furthermore, cruise ships stop at the port from time to time . From there the tourists are taken to river trips to the Sepik . From the small Wewak Airport there are daily connections to Port Moresby , Madang and Mount Hagen . Road links into the inland of East Sepik Province connect Wewak with the settlements on the Sepik River Angoram , Timbunke and Pagui .

history

Near the city is Cape Wom , where the Japanese army surrendered to the Australians on September 13, 1945 . The first two Australian-directed war crimes trials in New Guinea took place in Wewak . Both cases involved cannibalism . One trial was found guilty with a death sentence , and the other defendant was acquitted.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Colonial Lexicon. Edited by Heinrich Schnee. - Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1920. - 3 vols.
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Wewak population figures@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
  3. ↑ Philip Piccigallo: The Japanese on Trial; Austin 1979; ISBN 0-292-78033-8 (Chapter 7 "Australia and Others")

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