Who was Queen Emma?

Trevor
09/10/2013

Queen Emma -- 

Emma Eliza Coe (26 September 1850, in Apia – 21 July 1913, in Europe), known also as "Queen Emma of New Guinea", Emma Forsayth, Emma Farrell and Emma Kolbe was a business woman and plantation owner of mixed American/Samoan descent.

 

See -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Forsayth

 

She died in Europe in 1913 and her ashes were buried in her old station cemetery “Gunantambu” at Ralum. Today the site of the Ralum Club in Kokopo, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

 

Forsayth is portrayed by Barbara Carrera in the 1988 television serial Emma: Queen of the South Seas, which was directed by John Banas for Australia's Network 10. She is featured in Christian Kracht's 2012 novel Imperium, which focuses on August Engelhardt.

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