The Boluminski Highway is the main land transportation route on the island of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea . It runs from the provincial capital of Kavieng for 193 km down the east coast of the island to Namatanai and beyond. The whole highway from Kavieng to Namatanai will be sealed by the end of 2018.
4-605: Originally named Kaiser-Wilhelm-Chaussee during the German protectorate, it was renamed in 1921 into East Coast Road . After Papua New Guinea gained independence (1975) the Highway was renamed again, this time after Franz Boluminski who was the German District Officer from 1910 until his death in 1913. He built a large section of the highway by forcing individual villages along the coast to construct and maintain
8-503: A section. If a section of the road fell into disrepair the village responsible would be punished by having to carry his sulky with him in it over the substandard section, and then his horse was reharnessed and he continued. The quality of the highway was not rivalled on the mainland until the 1950s. This New Ireland Province geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Franz Boluminski Franz Boluminski (12 November 1863 – 28 April 1913)
12-756: Was a German colonial administrator . Boluminski was born in Graudenz , Kingdom of Prussia . He served in the German Army in German East Africa and in 1894 went to work for the German New Guinea Company at Astrolabe Bay near modern-day Madang in Papua New Guinea . In March 1899 he transferred into the German colonial service and was posted to new station of Kavieng on the island of New Ireland . In 1910 he
16-468: Was promoted to district officer. His major feat was the construction of a road along the north-eastern coast of the island. He made each village along the coast construct a section and then maintain it. The road eventually became known as the Boluminski Highway , named in his honour. At the same time he established copra plantations connected to the highway and this made New Ireland one of
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