St. Anna (mission station)

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St. Anna was a Roman Catholic mission station during the German colonial period. It contained a plantation of coconut palm and rubber trees for export to Europe. It was located at Berlinhafen, Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (German New Guinea).

Sources

  • Averberg, Theodor: Skizzen und Bilder aus der Südsee-Mission - 3. Ein Besuch auf der Missionsfarm St. Anna, Steyler Missionsbote, 1908; 35: 90-92.
  • Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Vol. III, p. 251