Aitape
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Place details
- Locality
- Aitape
- Region
- Sandaun
- Country
- Papua Niugini
- Population
- 5,547
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Aitape
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Aitape.png
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aitape (lower right) and Tumleo Island (left)
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Papua New Guinea Sandaun Province#Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Sandaun Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sandaun Province (West Sepik)
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- LLG
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- East Aitape Rural LLG
Key dates
- Inception
- 1905
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Sandaun Province
- Population
- +6931
- Elevation
- +4
- Image
- Aitape.png
Show 1 more fact
- P12749
- V for Vendetta
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Article
7 sectionsContents
- Transport
- History
- Second World War
- Tsunami
- Climate
- See also
- References
thumb|Aitape Beach thumb|upright|Sergeant Siffleet's execution at Aitape, 1943
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. 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.