VANIMO

minor port, northwestern Papua New Guinea. Located on a peninsula surrounded by a white sand beach fronting the Pacific Ocean, Vanimo is about 20 miles (30 km) east of the border with Irian Jaya province, Indonesia. Lying on a well-drained alluvial plain covered with lowland rain forest, the town is a lumbering centre with sawmills and a port for overseas shipment of timber. Some copra is produced along the coast. Road building has proceeded slowly; the main project is the construction of a coastal road. The town has an airfield. Pop. (1980 prelim.) 3,051.