Simpson Harbour
Simpson Harbour is a sheltered harbour of Blanche Bay, on the Gazelle Peninsula in the extreme north of New Britain. The harbour is named after Captain Cortland Simpson, who surveyed the bay while in command of HMS Blanche in 1872.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Harbor
- Description: harbour in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Rabaul Harbor”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rabaul.
Rabaul
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rabaul is the former provincial capital of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. It was evacuated and nearly destroyed in 1994 when the nearby volcano Tavurvur erupted.
Simpson Harbour
- Categories: port and transportation
- Location: East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Portuguese—“Simpson Harbour” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “辛普森港”
- Czech: “Simpsonův přístav”
- Czech: “Zátoka Simpson”
- French: “Port de Simpson”
- German: “Simpson Harbour”
- Japanese: “シンプソン湾”
- Portuguese: “Simpson Harbour”
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