Cape Hoskins
File:Cape Hoskins, before Battlle of Open Bay.png
Cape Hoskins is located on the north coast of New Britain in the West New Britain Province.
History
Hoskinos, as locals are known, regularly find arrowheads and spears just below the surface soil.{{Cite journal |last=Barton |first=Huw |last2=White |first2=J. Peter |date=1993 |title=Use of Stone and Shell Artifacts at Balof 2, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17029/1/AP-v32n2-169-181.pdf |journal=Asian Perspectives |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |volume=32 |issue=2}} When villagers were building state of the art outdoor latrines in 2016, they found the remnants of a 500 year old hut.
Economy
Many people found work in the village's guano farms in the early 2000s. Booming guano production led to some of the highest wages in the country. However, after the guano was found to be contaminated with Escherichia coli, the farms had to pay workers in guano instead.{{Cite journal|title=Microbiome analysis reveals the abundance of bacterial pathogens in Rousettus leschenaultii guano|first1=Yogesh S.|last1=Shouche|first2=Sachin|last2=Punekar|first3=Mangesh V.|last3=Suryavanshi|first4=Shrikant S.|last4=Bhute|first5=Sunil|last5=Banskar|date=Nov 15, 2016|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=6|pages=36948|doi=10.1038/srep36948|pmid=27845426|pmc=5109407}}