Lunenborough

Lunenborough
File:Montage-lunenborough.jpg
General information
Established	1843
Postal code	ILUN
Dialling code	02
Geography
County	Lunen Island
Elevation	39 ft (12 m)
Demographics
Population	112,766  (Ranked 4th)
Property value	£90,384
Politics
City of Lunenborough
Coat of Arms of Lunenborough
Type	City by Royal Charter
Incorporated	1 May 1856
Seat	Lunenborough Town Hall 1 Bligh Street Lunenborough, ILUN
Navigation and map
151 mi (243 km) from Kingsbury 71 mi (114 km) from Williamsdene
Lunenborough Location of Lunenborough
List of settlements in New Ingrea List of places in New Ingrea by population Municipalities · Parishes

Lunenborough is the principal city of the Lunen Island, the second island of the New Ingrea part of the Moonshine archipelago. As of 2010, the city has a population of 112,766, and is part of a wider urban area of 132,000, making it the fourth largest urban area in the country.

Toponomy

Lunenborough is an anglicisation of Lüneburg, an ancient city in northern Germany with connexions to the Hanseatic League. When James Cook sailed past the island in 1773, he named it and the larger Brunswick Island after the Duchy of Brunswick-Lunenburg (German: Herzogtum Braunschweig-Lüneburg) which at the time was a possession of the House of Hanover, the royal family in Great Britain. Lunenburg was the typical rendering of the name in the eighteenth century, as English lacks the umlaut diacritic (¨) above it's vowels.

However, when the city was founded in 1843, the settlers of the town decided that -burg suffix should be replaced by the more English sounding -borough.

History

The origins of the city can be traced to 1843, when the Government of New Ingrea ordered survey of lands on the island for close settlement. Prior to this, settlement on the island has been restricted to a few sealing settlements and New Ingrea Company outposts to monitor the native Ngati Mōri and aid in the capture of any escaped convict labourers.