page_title: Voco Point
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Voco Point / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Panoramic photo of Voco Point Lae facing West. Yacht club and Lutheran Shipping in center of photo. Mount Lunaman to the right.
context_page_description: Voco Point is a suburb of Lae in the Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Voco Point is one of the busiest coastal trading points in the country and coastal vessels from throughout the country, from Alotau to Manus, from Lihir to Vanimo line up at the wharves. The passenger boats ferry people to Finschhafen, the Siassi islands, Kimbe, Rabaul, New Ireland, Oro Bay, Alotau, Madang, and Wewak. The local Lae villages call the area around Voco Point Asiawi, which according to mythology, used to be a long point that went out much further but was eaten by the evil spirit Yaayaa.
context_section_description: The main township of Lae was originally on the flats between Voco Point and the airfield. The site was later shifted to the terraces above where the elite had lived in the days before the war.
  During colonial times, local Chinese trading stores dominated the area. The Chinese had been brought to Lae and Rabaul by German colonials, for their boat building and carpentry skills.
caption: Panoramic photo of Voco Point Lae facing west, yacht club and Lutheran Shipping in center of photo, Mount Lunaman to the right
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