Rabaul

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

Description

Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province, on the island of New Britain, in the country of Papua New Guinea. It lies about 60 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea. Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in the province until it was destroyed in 1994 by falling ash of a volcanic eruption in its harbor. [Source Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaul).