Place:Aitape, West Sepik, Papua New Guinea

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NameAitape
Alt namesEitapesource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 12-13
TypeCity
Coordinates3.167°S 142.283°E
Located inWest Sepik, Papua New Guinea
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Aitape is a small town of about 18,000 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province. It is a coastal settlement that is almost equidistant from the provincial capitals of Wewak and Vanimo, and marks the midpoint of the highway between these two capitals. Aitape has 240 V power (in general 24 hours), telephone, a bank, a post-office, a courthouse and a police station, a supermarket and many tradestores, a petrol station, two airstrips, two secondary schools, a mission office and a hospital.

Aitape was established as a train station by German colonists in 1905 as part of German New Guinea. During the Second World War the town was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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