Lat 4° 20' 60S Long 152° 16' 0E  Located south of Rabaul, across the harbor. Located to the east is Vunapope and Takubar.

History
The German colonial capital, and the remains of Queen Emma's mansion was located there. On the night of January 22, 1942 a Japanese landing force occupying Rabaul landed here. Another groups landing at Karavia Bay (near Vulcan).

Today
Since the eruption, Kokopo has been built up to be the new center of town, with most of the shops and banks.

Type 95 Ha Go
Displayed at the center of the roundabout at Kokopo

A6M3 Zero
Ditched off Kokopo, popular dive site

Kokopo War Museum
This is the War and Cultural Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Port Moresby. It contains an impressive collection of Japanese vehicles, munitions and relics left from the long occupation, and displays the wreckage of aircraft bits collected during new discoveries in the past sixty years.

Bitapaka Allied Military Cemetery
Near Kokopo, Gazelle Peninsula. Cemetery for soldiers from the Australian capture of the German headquarters of German New Guinea in during WWI in 1914 and Australian, Papuan, British and colonial Indian troops who died in the struggle with the Japanese.