Ramu

Aerial view of Ramu

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The Ramu is a river in northern Papua New Guinea.

Location and run

Its headwaters located in Kraetkegebirge, from where it flows about 640 kilometers through the Madang Province in northwestern direction.

During his walk, numerous tributaries from the Bismarck Mountains and the Finisterre and Adelbert Mountains in the Ramu pour. The river flows about 20 km southeast of the Sepik Estuary in the Broken Water Bay the Bismarck Sea. During the rainy season, the Ramu and Sepik unite in the flooded plain near the estuary.

Nature

In Ramu Ramu catchment area is the National Park.

History

For thousands of local indigenous tribes live in villages along the river, which forms the basis for food, transportation and culture.

German research

The area around the Ramu was part of Kaiser-Wilhelms -Land, where the German Empire founded in 1884 German New Guinea. The Germans studied their territory quickly, and so the Ramu was discovered in 1886 by the Vice Admiral George of Schleinitz who had actually made ​​an expedition to the Sepik and met with the return to Finschhafen the estuary. Schleinitz called the river " Ottilie river ", after his ship, which was called Ottilie.

The course of the Ramu was first ten years later (1896 ) discovered by the Kaiser- Wilhelm - country expedition. Karl Lauterbach, a botanist, had an expedition of New Guinea 's Company, led to find the sources of the Markham River. After the team had crossed from the south Madangs located Astrolabebai from the Oertzenberge, it came instead of Markham's an unknown, flowing northwest flow. Lauterbach then followed the Ramu that he had discovered it, to a certain extent by canoe, but when the supplies dwindled, they returned on the same route back to the coast.

Another German researcher Ernst Pat Beck, who had previously accompanied Lauterbach, initiated in 1898, the Second Ramu expedition. Pat Beck's job was to find out by tracing the Ramu upstream, if the 1886 was discovered " Ottilie flow " with found Lauterbach Ramu identical. He was accompanied by former officers of the Prussian army, an official of the company, and an Australian gold prospectors named Robert Phillip. The team traveled by steamer Duke Johann Albrecht, who was one of the New Guinea Company.

After a few days of travel up the Ramu, Tappenbeck let his fellow travelers back in a well- equipped warehouse, as the water level dropped. He returns four and a half months later in another steamer called Duchess Elisabeth back, whereupon the expedition team was 310 km far from entering the Ramu. By canoe could even advance further. The end of 1898 they had established a station on the river, mapped the Ramu River and its tributaries and amassed a large botanical collection.

The Germans made ​​further expeditions to search for gold and botanical finds. 1902 founded Hans Klink and John Schlenzig a station that was later connected by a bridle path with the coast. Rudolf Schlechter in 1902 initiated a research trip, should be sought in the Guttaperchabäume. 1907 then the Austrian researcher Wilhelm Dammköhler led an expedition into the Markham Valley and joined for the first time the sources of Markham and Ramu.

Australian management

After the First World War German New Guinea came under Australian control. In 1936, the British Lord Moyne ventured in the course of an expedition to Indonesia and New Guinea the Ramu up. Moyne discovered about 270 kilometers from the mouth of the river a regular pygmäenähnlicher people who inhabited the region of the middle Ramu. These people are now called Aiom and reach an average height of 1.27 m.

Called The 23 km south of Kainantu in Aronatal location " Upper Ramu river hydroelectric project ", also called " Yonki Dam ", supplied Lae, Madang and most of the high country with electricity.

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