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The province of East New Britain covers the Duke of York Islands and part of New Britain Island in northeastern Papua New Guinea. The province's capital is Kokopo, which is not far from Rabaul, the ancient capital damaged mainly in a volcanic eruption in 1994. East New Britain has a total land area of 15,816 square kilometres (6,107 square miles) and a population of 220,133 people in the 2000 census, which increased to 328,369 in 2011. The size of the local coastal waters is 104,000 square meters (26 acres).To the west, the province shares a land boundary with West New Britain Province, while to the east, it shares a sea border with New Ireland Province.
Keravat is a town in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, and the seat of Gazelle District. It is located on the island of New Britain. The Kerevat National High School, the Kerevat Education Centre, and the Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute are all located there. Cocoa is the main crop grown there. During World War II, the Imperial Japanese built an airstrip here in September 1943. Kerevat is located 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) east of Vunakanau, near Ataliklikun Bay.
East New Britain's capital, Kokopo, is located in Papua New Guinea. It's managed by the Kokopo-Vunamami Urban LLG.When the volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan erupted in 1994, the capital was relocated from Rabaul. As a result, the town's population more than doubled, from 3,150 in 1990 to 20,262 in 2000. During the German New Guinea government, which governed the area between 1884 and 1919, Kokopo was known as Herbertshöhe (Herbert's Heights). Until 1910, it served as the capital of German New Guinea.
A severe earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 7.5, which was the most significant earthquake of 2015 at the time, was recorded near Kokopo on March 29, 2015, prompting a tsunami warning. The April 2015 Nepal earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8, exceeded this a month later.
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Rabaul (/rbaul/) is a settlement in the East New Britain region of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain. It's around 600 kilometres east of New Guinea's main island. Rabaul served as the provincial capital and the province's most important settlement until it was destroyed by falling ash from a volcanic explosion in its harbour in 1994. Thousands of meters of ash were thrown into the air during the eruption, and the ash shower that followed caused 80 per cent of Rabaul's buildings to collapse. The capital was relocated to Kokopo, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) away, following the eruption. Because it sits on the border of the Rabaul caldera, a flooded crater of a colossal pyroclastic shield, Rabaul is constantly threatened by volcanic activity. During the German New Guinea administration, which dominated the region from 1884 and 1919, Rabaul was designed and built around the Simpsonhafen (Simpson Harbour) harbour area.
The Kivung movement ('Meeting') is a millenarian movement in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, frequently referred to as a cargo cult. It is practised by locals in the Baining and Pomio districts. The movement brought together two millenarian influences: one from Michael Korima Urekit, who attempted to build a movement in the Arawe area, and the other from Bernard Balatape, who started a local movement feeding the dead at the Pomio of Kaiton. Koriam was elected to the House of Assembly as a representative for Kandrian-Pomio Open due to the movement. When the electorate was altered to eliminate the Kandrian area and include the Baining in the south Gazelle Peninsula, the movement expanded to include the Baining people. Kolman Kintape, a Pomio native, managed Warwick Plantation in the Baining area around this period (before his return to Pomio in 1974). (near the villages of Sunam and Dadul). He was working on money-multiplying magic as well as ritual knowledge for feeding the dead. Koriam and Alois Koki paid Kolman a visit at Warwick Plantation.
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A visit through the bustling Kokopo market is also recommended. Saturday is the best day to go. Half of the vendors sell buai (betel nut) and its sauces, daka (mustard stick), and cumbung (mineral lime, which looks like cocaine in its little plastic wraps), with the rest selling fruit, vegetables, smoked fish, and crabs. Tobacco growers offer dry leaves in the back and homemade cigars with adhesive tape on the mouth end.Tavurvur is an active stratovolcano in Papua New Guinea, located near Rabaul on the island of New Britain. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera, situated on the caldera's eastern rim. In 1994, a volcanic eruption essentially destroyed the neighbouring town of Rabaul.
Simpson Harbour is a sheltered harbour in Blanche Bay, located on the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain's far north. While commanding the HMS Blanche in 1872, Captain Cortland Simpson inspected the bay and named the harbour for him. Rabaul, the former capital, is located on its coastline. Rabaul caldera is a massive flooded caldera that includes the harbour. Several volcanoes surround the harbour. During World War I, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force entered Simpson Harbour and conquered Rabaul. The Imperial Japanese used the harbour as a significant naval station during World War II. Allied air assaults sank approximately 65 Japanese ships in the harbour.
The Baining people are among East New Britain's first and original residents, Papua New Guinea's Gazelle Peninsula. They now live in the Baining Mountains, where they have been driven by Tolai tribes that came to the coastal areas relatively recently. Another aspect that may have impacted their movement inland was millennia of intense volcanic activity. (The nearby town of Rabaul was nearly wholly devastated by two volcanoes, Tavurvur and Vulcan, as recently as 1994.)