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	Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea or PNG) is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the Indonesian provinces of Papua (Indonesian province) and West Irian Jaya (Irian Jaya Barat) occupy the western half of New Guinea).
		Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
		New Guinea is part of the humid tropics, and many Indomalayan rainforest plants spread across the narrow straits from Asia, mixing together with the old Australian and Antarctic floras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papua_New_Guinea (2070 words)

	NEW GUINEA - LoveToKnow Article on NEW GUINEA
		New GUinea was actually annexed in 1793 by two commanders in the East India Companys service, and the island of Manasvari in Geelvink Bay was held for some months by their troops.
		By authority, therefore, of Queensland, the mainland of New Guinea, opposite her shores east of the 14151 meridian, was annexed to that colony in 1883.
		New Pomerania, New Mecklenburg, with New Hanover and the Admiralty Islands and the Solomon Islands (Bougainville and Buka).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_GUINEA.htm (5543 words)

	German New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deutsch-Neuguinea) was a German protectorate from 1884 to 1914, consisting of the northeastern part of New Guinea and several nearby island groups.
		In addition most other German lands in the Pacific were part of German New Guinea: the (Buka, Bougainville and several smaller islands), the Carolines, Palau, the Marianas (except for Guam), the Marshall Islands and Nauru.
		It became the Territory of New Guinea, a League of Nations Mandate Territory under Australian administration until 1949 when it was merged with the Australian territory of Papua to eventually become the northern part of modern Papua New Guinea.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/German_New_Guinea (592 words)

	New Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.
		When German New Guinea was occupied by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in 1914, there was soon a need for postage stamps.
		This was met by overprinting existing stocks of the (unwatermarked) German New Guinea and Marshall Islands stamps with "G.R.I" (short for Georgius Rex Imperator, George V being king at the time), along with values ranging from one pence to five shillings.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/New_Britain (425 words)

	Encyclopedia: German New Guinea
		German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages.
		In addition most other German lands in the Pacific were part of German New Guinea: the German Solomon Islands (Buka, Bougainville and several smaller islands), the Carolines, Palau, the Marianas (except for Guam), the Marshall Islands and Nauru.
		The Territory of Papua was an Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/German-New-Guinea (1666 words)

	Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		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.
		The churches with the largest number of members are the Roman Catholic Church (with 30% of the population), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea, the, and the Seventh-day Adventists.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Papua_New_Guinea (5415 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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 (2282 words)

	Transport - German New Guinea - German Neuguinea railways 19th Century (1884 - 1914)
		German traders commenced operation in Africa and began to arrive in the South Pacific by 1850.
		The period from 1900 to 1914 was one of relative prosperity for the German colony.
		German cooperation to mine the Nauru phosphate was secured through a joint-venture with Jaluit Gesellschaft and the use of German engineers to install the mining equipment and 610 mm gauge railway.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railgerman1a.html (5151 words)

	German New Guinea former German colony
		August 25th A German warship hoists the German Flag on Yap, the main island of the Carolines.
		S.M.S. Elisabeth and S.M. Gunboat Hyaene in Friedrich-Wilhemlshafen Bay on New Guinea.
		The German empire - the German protectorates - the imperial navy
	www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de /neuguinea-english.htm (421 words)

	A short history of Papua New Guinea
		In 1899, the German imperial government assume direct control of the territory, thereafter known as German New Guinea.
		The latter becomes a British colony in 1888 and in 1906 British New Guinea is passed to Australia as the Territory of Papua.
		Following the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, civil administration of Papua as well as New Guinea is restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act, 1945-46, Papua and New Guinea are combined in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
	www.electionworld.org /history/papua.htm (718 words)

	New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		Populated by nearly a thousand different Papua Melanesian tribal groups since 45,000 BC, New Guinea is the home of the world's oldest independent societies and a staggering number of separate languages, the Papuan languages.
		Netherlands New Guinea and the Australian territories were invaded in 1942 by the Japanese.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/New-Guinea.htm (1387 words)

	German New Guinea -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The islands in the (A group of islands in the southwestern Pacific northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea) Bismarck Archipelago situated west of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and nowadays also belonging to Papua New Guinea, were also part of the protectorate.
		A treaty with (A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power) Spain, signed later that year on July 30, ensured German control over several island groups in the Pacific, and these were added to the protectorate of German New Guinea.
		After the (The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans) Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Germany lost all its colonial possessions, including German New Guinea.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/german_new_guinea.htm (315 words)

	New Guinea
		CONSIDERING Australia a continent, New Guinea is, next to Greenland, the largest island on the globe.
		The Bismarck range in German New Guinea is almost as high, and there is one peak in British New Guinea, or Papua, which is more than thirteen thousand feet high.
		One of the oddest things in New Guinea is the cradle, which is made of the fiber of the banana plant knitted into a bag.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles09/travel-14.shtml (1949 words)

	Stamp of the German New Guinea Company (1885)
		With the establishment of the German New Guinea Company, appeared the first stamp of that country on 15 February 1888; although this was primarily a private local issue, it was officially recognised and used for postal purposes.
		The first post-office in German New Guinea was opened at Stephansport on December 14th, 1889, and from that time until 1897 ordinary unsurcharged German stamps were used in the colony.
		The German New Guinea Company stamp was replaced by the German Empire 2 Mark issue of 1880-1889 in various shades of purple, mauve and rose.
	www.hgriggs.com /pngstamps/germng.html (733 words)

	articles - Komet
		The story of her movements after the outbreak of the war, and of her capture, are told in both volumes IX and X of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, The Royal Australian Navy by AW Jose and The Australians at Rabaul by SS Mackenzie.
		A British trader, Stephen Whiteman, a long-term resident of German New Guinea, knew from his contacts with the New Guineans that the missing vessel often used Komethafen as an anchorage, and told Holmes that she would probably be found there.
		This anchor was forged in Hamburg in 1911 for the German New Guinea Administrator's yacht Komet.
	www.pngaa.net /Articles/articles_Komet.htm (2343 words)

	Papua New Guinea (09/05)
		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.
		Papua New Guinea maintains an embassy at 1779 Massachusetts Ave.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm (4334 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.
		The northern section of the country formed part of German New Guinea from 1884 to 1914 and was called Kaiser-Wilhelmsland.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pa/PapuaNew.html (505 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| Asia - New Guinea
		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.
		For robberies, the rate in 2000 was 66.16 for Papua New Guinea, 4.07 for Japan, and 144.92 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)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 148 - Records of Papua New Guinea, 1883-1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		German New Guinea: Some 1500 files relating to the records of the former German New Guinea (1885–1914), and mainly routine administrative and ephemeral material for the period of military administration from 1914 to 1921.
		The records of German New Guinea – many handwritten, and in German – reveal the long-term plans for road and plantation development, and document matters that were important to colonial administrators such as exploration and health.
		In New Guinea conditions were dramatically changed by the discovery of gold in 1926.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS148.html (795 words)

	Papua New Guinea Provinces
		On 1906-09-01, British New Guinea was renamed the Territory of Papua.
		German New Guinea was mandated to Great Britain by the League of Nations on 1920-12-17.
		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
		To the north and east are the islands of Manus, New Britain, New Ireland, and Bougainville, all part of Papua New Guinea.
		The eastern half of New Guinea was first visited by Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the 16th century, but a permanent European presence was not established until 1884, when Germany declared a protectorate over the northern coast and Britain took similar action in the south.
		Papua New Guinea was invaded by Japanese forces in 1942.
	www.postcourier.com.pg /misc/aboutPNG.htm (541 words)

	Papua New Guinea
		New Guinea and some of Papua were invaded by Japanese forces in 1942.
		In 1997, Papua New Guinea's government hired South African mercenary soldiers to fight on Bougainville in order to end the long-running crisis, but this action led to massive demonstrations and the mercenary contract was rescinded.
		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 (967 words)

	Deutsch Neu-Guinea (German New Guinea), Deutsche Kolonien (German Colonies), Das Deutschland Geschichte Netz, Germany ...
		In 1884, Imperial Germany annexed the northeastern area of the island of New Guinea, along with islands of New Britain and New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago.
		“New Guinea, or Papua, is after Australia the largest island in the world, and is separated from the Australian continent by the shallow island-studded Torres Straits, 80 to 90 miles wide at its narrowest part.
		New Pommern offers greater facilities to European settlers than any of the other islands many of which, though considerable in size are almost unapproachable, and man is almost wilder than nature.
	www.usgennet.org /de/topic/ddgn/colonies/neu-guinea.html (1405 words)

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