Finschhafen District

Finschhafen is a district on the north east coast coral reefs distinguished by the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. He is named after the port city, which was founded in 1885 as a trading post borne by private German investors Guinea - Company. Finschhafen is located northeast of the Huon Gulf on the Salomonensee near the resort mountain saddle at Cape cretin.

The district consists of five " areas at the local administrative level ," Local Level Government ( LLG ) areas which are distinguished in Rural (rural ) or urban ( urban) LLGs. There are the Hube Rural LLG, the Kotte Rural LLG, the Finschhafen Urban LLG, the Yabim - Mape Rural LLG and the Burum Kuat - Rural LLG. The district administration is the government station Gagidu, which is located in Yabim Mape LLG. Saddle Mountain is the capital of Kotte Rural LLG.

The district covers about 2771 km ², in 2003 lived 45 287 inhabitants in the district Finschhafen.

History

The natural harbor was discovered in 1884 by German researcher Otto Finsch. The end of 1885, named after Finsch site was created as items of the New Guinea Company. From 1886 to 1891 Finschhafen was the capital of the Company. 1891, the settlement was abandoned due to a malaria epidemic, which also fell victim to the Director General of the company and until ten years later, in 1901, founded again.

In July 1886, the neulutherische Neuendettelsauer mission moved in Simbang at Finschhafen. From the German colonial era still exists today the home of the Lutheran Mission Society.

From 1908 to 1910, the Berlin physician Richard Neuhauss research at the Huon Gulf and made with the Edison phonograph music recordings on wax cylinders 139, most people in the area around Finschhafen. The resulting images document one of the Christian mission hardly influenced and now-vanished part of the music of New Guinea.

During World War II Finschhafen between Japanese and Americans was highly competitive. Many houses were destroyed and the city a little further away, near the built by Japanese soldiers military airfield, rebuilt. The airport was expanded and a major base for the U.S. Army, which will focus on units with African American soldiers were stationed after the American conquest. The city is known today through this now for civilian use airport (symbol FIN).

The military airfield was usually written " Finschhafen " by the U.S. Army Administration, is also occasionally " Finschaven " in use, and in the local media are also found frequently " Finschaffen ".