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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The climate of New Guinea is characterized in general by its great heat and humidity, and in the low-lying districts fever abounds.
		New Guinea is divided politically into the Dutch, German, and English protectorates, the last two being known officially as Kaiserwilhelmsland and the Territory of Papua.
		The Prefecture Apostolic of Dutch New Guinea was separated from the Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia on 22 December, 1902.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10783a.htm (2253 words)

	Historical Flags (Papua New Guinea)
		The UN Trust Territory of New Guinea, consisting of the northeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea.
		The Australian External Territory of Papua, consisting of the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea.
		In 1884 a British protectorate was proclaimed and in 1888 it was annexed to the British Crown.
	flagspot.net /flags/pg_his.html (594 words)

	New Guinea
		New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5000 BC.
		The Territory of Papua was an Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949.
		The region of West New Guinea is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
	www.shortopedia.com /N/E/New_Guinea (520 words)

	History of Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first Europeans to sight New Guinea were probably the Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific in the early part of the 16th century.
		The term "New Guinea" was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Ynigo Ortis de Retez, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast.
		The British Government, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia, assumed a mandate from the League of Nations for governing the Territory of New Guinea in 1920.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/papuanewguinea.html (1188 words)

	Sandafayre Stamp Auctions \| Stamp Atlas \| British New Guinea
		New Guinea lies to the north of Australia.
		Although this move was not ratified by the British government, when Germany proclaimed a protectorate over the northern coast and several other island groups in November 1884, the annexed area in the south was made the protectorate of British New Guinea by proclamation in 1888.
		In January 1942 the Japanese invaded the north-west and landed in the mandated territory of New Guinea.
	www.sandafayre.com /atlas/bnewg.htm (623 words)

	New Guinea - British Administration
		The protectorate was at last declared in 1884, and British New Guinea was made a colony in 1888.
		The dominant figure in the history of British New Guinea was William MacGregor, a Scottish man who had originally begun a medical career, but became increasingly involved in colonial administration and government.
		British New Guinea was a very poor territory, run on a tiny grant from the Australian colonies, and MacGregor spent many of his years in office in exploratory work, personally ascending mountains and rivers.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /collections/ecbot/new_guinea_british.htm (410 words)

	Territory of Papua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Territory of Papua was a de facto Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949.
		In 1902, Papua was effectively transferred to the authority of the new British dominion of Australia.
		Post-war, the Papua and New Guinea Act (1949) united the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea as the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, which later became the fully independent Papua New Guinea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_New_Guinea (433 words)

	Papua New Guinea - Gurupedia
		The name of the country was also given in that era; Papua is derived from a Malay word describing the frizzly Melanesian hair, and New Guinea was the name given by a Spanish explorer because of the resemblance with the population of the Guinese in Africa.
		Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
		Australia and New Guinea are portions of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which started to break into smaller continents in the Cretaceous era, 130-65 million years ago.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/papua_new_guinea.htm (963 words)

	Papua New Guinea Paper Money Index
		The term “New Guinea” was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spanish explorer, Inigo Ortiz de Retes, because he thought the inhabitants resembled the people of Guinea in Africa.
		German presence to the north worried the government of the Crown Colony of Queensland, which to counter the perceived threat, sent a contingent of police to New Guinea to claim the eastern half of the island.
		British currency prevailed in the British Sector, until Burns-Philp and Company complained that a lack of currency in the area was stifling economic growth and issued currency of its own in Port Moresby and Samarai in 1893.
	www.numismondo.com /pm/png (679 words)

	Papua New Guinea (09/06)
		The term "New Guinea" was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Íñigo Ortiz de Retes, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast.
		Papua New Guinea's politics are highly competitive with most members elected on a personal and ethnic basis within their constituencies rather than as a result of party affiliation.
		New governments are protected by law from votes of no confidence for the first 18 months of their incumbency, and no votes of no confidence may be moved in the 12 months preceding a national election.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm (4309 words)

	Facts
		British New Guinea joined in 1905 to be the seventh and became the Territory of Papua.
		New Guinea was technically a colony of Australia because the decision was done by the United Nations, which New Guinea was under it trusteeship, to come under the administrative mandate of Australia as separate entity from Papua which was part of Australia and was Australia.
		Australian citizens living in New Guinea before 1975, who had children born there, had to register their children as Australian citizens or if a German couple had a child born here in Papua New Guinea, the child would be an Papua New Guinea by birth.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/sony/facts.htm (2788 words)

	Go For Broke National Education Center >> History >> Historical Information >> Campaigns
		New Guinea was an important strategic military island to both the Allied and Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II.
		For the Americans, New Guinea served as a strategic point in the second stage of their offensive against Rabaul, which was an important Japanese defense base in both the South and Southwest Pacific.
		New Guinea was also one of the two routes used by the Allied forces to reach the Philippines.
	www.goforbroke.org /history/history_historical_campaigns_mis_new.asp (406 words)

	Background Notes Archive - East Asia and the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HISTORY Archeological evidence indicates that humans arrived on New Guinea at least 60,000 years ago, probably by sea from Southeast Asia during an ice age period when the sea was lower and distances between islands shorter.
		New governments are protected by law from votes of no confidence for the first 18 months of their incumbency.
		Papua New Guinea had a typical South Pacific plantation-oriented economy until the mid-1970s, when exploitation of a major copper and gold deposit on Bougainville Island was undertaken.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/eap/papuanewguinea9810.html (4659 words)

	New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Guinea has 284 species and six orders of mammals: (monotremes, three orders of marsupials, rodents and bats); 195 of the mammal species (69%) are endemic.
		The gardens of the New Guinea highlands are ancient, intensive permacultures, adapted to high population densities, very high rainfalls (as high as 10,000 mm/yr (400 in/yr)), earthquakes, hilly land, and occasional frost.
		New Guinea is well-known in the popular imagination for supposed ritual cannibalism that was apparently practiced by some (but far from all) ethnic groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Guinea (2428 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| Asia - New Guinea
		For robberies, the rate in 2000 was 66.16 for Papua New Guinea, 4.07 for Japan, and 144.92 for USA.
		For automobile theft, the rate in 2000 was 29.31 for Papua New Guinea, 243.81 for Japan, and 414.17 for USA.
		The rate of burglaries for 2000 was 51.03 for Papua New Guinea, 233.45 for Japan, and 414.17 for USA.
	www.rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/asia_pacific/new_guinea.html (3342 words)

	British Empire: The Map Room: Pacific: British New Guinea
		The British Territory of Papua had an area of about 90,540 square miles and a population estimated at 400,000, of whom about 600 were Europeans.
		The Protectorate, as declared in 1884, with its seat of government at Port Moresby, was subsidized by the three Australian colonies of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and lasted, under the administration of two successive special commissioners (Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley and the Hon.
		Its constitution was that of a crown colony in association with Queensland; but in 1901 the federal government took control of the territory and in 1906 a proclamation by the governor-general of the commonwealth gave it the name of the Territory of Papua.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/britishnewguinea.htm (147 words)

	Capek v The Yacht 'Freja' [1980] PNGLR 57 (23 April 1980)
		British New Guinea became known as the Territory of Papua under the Commonwealth of Australia.
		Under the Laws Repeal Act 1975 and the Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975 of Australia, the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 and the Supreme Court Act 1949 were repealed and that destroyed the basis of the application of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 (Imp.) in Papua New Guinea.
		The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 is an Act of Australia which applied to Papua New Guinea, and the Supreme Court Act 1949 is a subordinate legislative enactment by the Governor-General of Australia under the provisions of the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949.
	www.worldlii.org /pg/cases/PNGLR/1980/57.html (2707 words)

	New Guinea
		The island of New Guinea has been continuously inhabited for tens of thousands of years, and is one of the earliest centres of crop cultivation.
		The eastern part of New Guinea came under European control in 1884 with the British declaring a protectorate over the southern portion (British New Guinea) and the Germans claiming the northern part as German New Guinea.
		In 1906 administration of British New Guinea was handed over to newly independent Australia, and the German territory also came under Australian control during the First World War.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /collections/ecbot/newguinea.htm (601 words)

	Papua New Guinea: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The eastern half of New Guinea was first explored by Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the 16th century.
		New Guinea and some of Papua were invaded by Japanese forces in 1942.
		Papua New Guinea: History - History Papua, the southern section of the country, was annexed by Queensland in 1883 and the...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107875.html (918 words)

	Papua New Guinea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It encompasses the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, as well as the Bismarck Archipelago, the Trobriand Islands, Samarai Island, Woodlark Island, D’Entrecasteaux Islands, the Louisiade Archipelago, and the northernmost Solomon Islands of Buka and Bougainville.
		Papua New Guinea is a wild, rugged region, with limited communications; the climate is tropical.
		Timber is another import source of revenue; the rain forests of Papua New Guinea are filled with tropical timber.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pa/PapuaNew.html (505 words)

	Pastoral Letter of Archbishop McDonald, Advent 2004
		The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, a French congregation, founded in 1854 was growing through new members joining with keen interest in foreign mission.
		The new mission was to be established in conjunction with an agricultural settlement scheme, sponsored by a French noblemen; the Marquis de Ray.
		The new missionaries received good welcome from the local Tolai people and also by the big man "Tolitur" of Nodup village.
	www.rc.net /papuanewguinea/bereina/msc.htm (407 words)

	Tropical Island Vacations in Papua New Guinea - TRANS NIUGINI TOURS
		Dutch New Guinea was administered by Holland from 1821 until 1962, in which for a brief time it was controlled by the United Nations until it was handed over to Indonesia in 1963, which it remains a part of.
		British New Guinea was designated a protectorate in 1884, but later changed to the status of a colony in 1888.
		Since then Papua New Guinea has had full independence, it's enormous natural resources are the major driver of the national economy, however its economy remains typically third world, with the majority of exported goods being raw materials with little to no value adding done on-shore.
	www.pngtours.com /history.html (879 words)

	Papua New Guinea Provinces
		On 1906-09-01, British New Guinea was renamed the Territory of Papua.
		The island of New Guinea was named by Spanish explorer Ortiz de Rez, from natives' resemblance to those of Guinea in Africa.
		As of 1900, the island of New Guinea was divided into a Dutch colony in the west, a German colony in the northeast, and a British protectorate in the southeast.
	www.statoids.com /upg.html (952 words)

	::: Papua New Guinea Expedition :::
		Spain "relinquishes" its claim on New Guinea to Holland and England in the Treaty of Utrecht.
		The boundary between the Dutch-controlled western New Guinea and British-controlled southeastern New Guinea is established at 141ºE longitude, with the exception of a slight westward curve of the Fly River.
		Due to effects of global warming, it is determined that the Duke of York atoll is slowly sinking.Papua New Guinea authorities announce that the 1,000 inhabitants of the atoll must relocate.
	sio.ucsd.edu /png/expedition/timeline.cfm (946 words)

	Lonely Planet
		In 1906, British New Guinea became Papua, and administration of the region was taken over by newly independent Australia.
		Post-war, the eastern half of New Guinea reverted to Australia and became the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
		However, a new trouble spot for PNG soon appeared on Bougainville Island, where the locals regarded themselves as racially and culturally distinct from mainlanders.
	www.expedia.co.uk /lonelyplanet/Papua-New-Guinea/historyandculture.aspx (1023 words)

	See You in Asia 2006 \| About Papua New Guinea
		In 1906, British New Guinea became Papua, and newly independent Australia assumed administration of the region.
		By the end of the war, Japan surrendered and the eastern half of New Guinea reverted to Australia and became the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
		Today, the Papua new Guinea highlands are still as formidable as wen they were first discovered by Europeans in 1933.
	www.seeyouinasia.com /papa_new_guinea.html (1367 words)

	Papua New Guinea - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		British Government, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia, assumes a mandate from the League of Nations to govern the Territory of New Guinea
		In 1972, the name of the territory was changed to Papua New Guinea and elections saw the formation of a ministry headed by Chief Minister Michael Somare, who pledged to lead the country to self-government and then to independence.
		The major Australian imports from Papua New Guinea in 2005-06 were crude petroleum (A$1,267 million), non-monetary gold (A$960 million), coffee and coffee substitutes (A$29 million) and refined petroleum (A$17 million).
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/png/png_brief.html (2880 words)

	The Stamps of British New Guinea and Papua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stamps of British New Guinea were first issued on June 1st 1901.
		The stamps of Queensland used in BNG were striked with a variety of both obliterators and circular date stamps (cds's).
		The above pictured pair features an anomoly of BNG postal history, which is in keeping with the relatively unknown numbers of philatelic usages (or 'cto/per favour'),of the rarer cancellations.
	www.users.bigpond.net.au /bng.stamps/indexA.html (640 words)

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