Sights in Hiritano Highway
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cemetery
It's worth poking around the cemetery amid the recently restored headstones for the grave of M Bourgade, one of France's top WWI air aces, who died here of malaria while working as a mission worker.
Later, the island became a government headquarters and base for explorations. Today the district local government headquarters is on the mainland at Bereina and the island has been in serious economic decline since. An airstrip that is more bush than strip and derelict buildings are the only reminders that at one stage Siria village once boasted a fisheries industry, wharfs, a bank and guesthouse.
In 1972 local seventeen-year-old schoolgirl, Susan Karike (now Mrs Huhume), surpr…
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Centennial Hill
In 1885 Catholic missionaries, who were some of the first European visitors to reach the Papuan coast, held PNG's first mass here on the 4th July. Today the location, Centennial Hill, boasts a small memorial decorated with mosaics and a painted bronze (yes - someone painted over the bronze) statue. They also brought with them 14 Filipino lay missionaries - the first Philippine visitors to PNG - to teach catechism and generally help evangelize the country.
Besides Catholicism, the Filipinos also help account for the Hispanic surnames that you may encounter.
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Paradise Beach
There are several palm-fringed beaches around the island but the pick of the bunch is Paradise Beach, a hot half-day walk to the island's far tip. Arrange for a local guide or charter a dinghy.
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