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	Netherlands - MSN Encarta
		The Netherlands joined with Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg to form the Brussels Treaty Organization (see Western European Union) in 1948, and was a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952.
		Meanwhile, The Netherlands lost a war against Indonesian nationalists in the East Indies, and in 1949 The Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty in the East Indies (excluding Netherlands New Guinea) to the Indonesian government.
		During this period the island of Aruba reached an agreement with the government of The Netherlands separating the island from the Netherlands Antilles.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572410_10/Netherlands_The.html (1457 words)

	New Guinea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Largely tropical, New Guinea has vast mountain ranges such as the Owen Stanley and the Bismarck mts.; Jaya Peak (16,503 ft/5,030 m) in Papua is the highest point.
		New Guinea is believed to have been settled by people migrating from Southeast Asia sometime before 40,000 years ago.
		Netherlands New Guinea was transferred to Indonesian administration in 1963 and became a province in 1969, but there has been ongoing resistance to Indonesian rule by many Papuans.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ne/NewGuin.html (533 words)

	Netherlands New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Netherlands New Guinea was the official name of Western New Guinea while it was a colonial possession of the Netherlands.
		The Dutch endorsed the council's selection of a new national anthem and the Morning Star as the new national flag on December 1, 1961.
		Kingdom of the Netherlands: Netherlands Antilles - Aruba
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Netherlands_New_Guinea (398 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 Netherlands New Guinea/Irian Jaya/West Papua
		New Guinea was probably first sighted by Portuguese Antonio d’Abreu aboard the Santa Caterina in the Fall of 1511.
		The Netherlands and Australian Governments base their policies with regard to the territories of New Guinea, for which they are responsible, on the interests and inalienable rights of their inhabitants to conformity with the provisions and the spirit of the United Nation charter.
		The territories of Netherlands New Guinea, the Australian Trust Territory of New Guinea and Papua, are geographically and ethnically related and future development of their respective populations must benefit from co-operation in policy and administration.
	www.vanderheijden.org /ng/history.html (2364 words)

	Western New Guinea Summary
		New Guinea is the second largest island in the world, after Greenland; from west to east it measures almost 2,500 kilometers, the distance from London to Istanbul.
		The border with Papua New Guinea is a mix between the artificial border of the 141st meridian, and the natural border of the Fly River.
		The combined population of the Indonesian provinces of West Irian Jaya and Papua, constituting all of Western New Guinea, was estimated to be 2,646,489 in 2005.
	www.bookrags.com /Western_New_Guinea (3790 words)

	Netherlands New Guinea
		Melanesia includes (from west to east) the island of New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the Bismarck and Louisiade archipelagoes; the Solomon Islands and the Santa Cruz Islands; New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands; Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides); Fiji; Norfolk Island; and numerous smaller islands.
		New Guinea is the second largest island in the world (after Greenland); about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) long (from northwest to southeast) and about 400 miles (640 km) wide at its widest (north to south), covering an area of about 309,000 square miles (791,000 square km).
		(Irian is the Indonesian name for New Guinea: barat = "west"; jaya = "glorious" or "victorious.") West Papua fronts the Ceram Sea and the Banda Sea on the west, the Arafura Sea on the southwest, and the Pacific Ocean on the north; it is bounded by Papua New Guinea on the east.
	www.vanderheijden.org /ng/index.html (472 words)

	New Guinea
		Yet Allied operations in New Guinea were essential to the U.S. Navy's drive across the Central Pacific and to the U.S. Army's liberation of the Philippine Islands from Japanese occupation.
		On New Guinea Australian troops of the 7th Division were ahead of schedule, advancing rapidly through the Ramu Valley on the south side of the Finisterre Range.
		Between Wau and Sansapor 110,000 of the emperor's soldiers and sailors died from enemy action, disease, or starvation in the pestilent jungles, the cold mountains, or in the empty seas.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/new-guinea/ng.htm (8549 words)

	Netherlands Antilles Summary
		Under a 1954 statute, the Netherlands Antilles is a component of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with autonomy in internal affairs.
		The island of Aruba was part of the Netherlands Antilles until 1986, when it was granted a "status apart", and became a separate part of the kingdom.
		Arctic and Oceania: Netherlands New Guinea (Indonesian Irian Jaya)
	www.bookrags.com /Netherlands_Antilles (3596 words)

	History of West Papua
		The territorial flag of Netherlands New Guinea shall be a rectangle consisting of a vertical wide red stripe at the hoist and seven horizontal blue stripes separated by six white stripes.
		The territorial flag of Netherlands New Guinea, when it is displayed with the flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in a hall at an outdoor meeting where speeches are delivered, shall be placed at the speaker’s left and the flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the speaker’s right.
		When the territorial flag of Netherlands New Guinea is displayed with the flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this shall not in any way affect the regulations concerning the use of the orange pennant with the latter flag.
	www.wpngnc.org /history.htm (4167 words)

	New York Times Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The strategic importance of New Guinea in the struggle for the world was the unemphasized but fundamental factor behind the United Nations debate last week on the fate of West New Guinea.
		Sukarno's claim that West New Guinea ought to be handed over to the Republic of Indonesia, with or without the consent of the Papuan inhabitants of West New Guinea, is misleading.
		West Irian was transferred from the Netherlands to Indonesia in May 1963 with the agreement that Indonesia would hold a plebiscite in 1969 to determine whether the Irianese wished to remain in the republic.
	fandom.net /InfoKit/Src/nyt-text.html (2881 words)

	richardbarnet.com -- guinea
		Papua New Guinea has been independent since 1975, as has combined the two territories of Papua and New Guinea, this region formerly being a United Nations trust territory administered by Australia.
		Guinea, itself, was formerly a territory of French West Africa, and was known to the French as "La Guinée française".
		The region of North-East New Guinea is the historic name for the northeastern part of mainland Papua New Guinea, and was formerly known as Kaiser Wilhelmsland.
	www.richardbarnet.com /guinea.shtml (340 words)

	Netherlands New Guinea - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Reports from eight countries to be reviewed at three-week session of UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women; New York meeting will review implementation of convention by Andorra, Guinea, Singapore, Guyana, Netherlands, Viet Nam, Sweden, Nicaragua.
		THE NATIVE ROOTS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA'S DEMOCRACY.
		The Counter Intelligence Corps and its activities in Australia and New Guinea 1942-1945.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-n1ethn1g1.html (248 words)

	Overseas Governors (The Netherlands)
		The Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies used the national tricolour with a red-white-blue pennant.
		First the Governors of Aceh, Celebes and some other areas in the Dutch Indies, and of Curaçao (as the Netherlands Antilles were known before 1948) and Suriname used the national tricolour, with in the red stripe two white balls.
		By Order in Council of 11 October 1986 (effective 1 January 1987) the flag for the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles was changed; in the miniature flag of the Netherlands Antilles one star was dropped.
	flagspot.net /flags/nl-govs.html (280 words)

	DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON TOKELAU, NEW CALEDONIA
		AISI (Papua New Guinea) said that the resolution was a consensus one. He added that, if there had been better reporting in the present case, the misunderstandings could have been avoided. The administering Powers had the obligation to report, and to help the Committee do its work.
		He said the relationship between New Zealand and Tokelau was squarely based on the principles of equal partnership. The draft constitution and draft treaty of free association reflected and affirmed that.
		The CHAIRMAN said the idea was nothing new. The independent expert would seek funding from private sources. In the realm of consultancies, it was not unusual for funding to be found elsewhere. When the United Nations had two independent experts in Bermuda, for example, it only paid for one of them.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2006/gacol3142.doc.htm (2133 words)

	Western New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western New Guinea is the Indonesian western half of the island of New Guinea and consists of two provinces, Papua and West Irian Jaya.
		On 6 March 1959 the New York Times published an article revealing the Dutch government had discovered alluvial gold flowing into the Arafura Sea and was sending an exploration team in search of the source of this gold.
		The border with Papua New Guinea mostly follows the 141st meridian, with one section defined by the Fly River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_New_Guinea (3501 words)

	Never-before-seen Rockefeller photos at Peabody Museum
		This undertaking in the New Guinea highlands was extraordinarily fruitful.
		Rockefeller was a son of then-governor of New York (and future U.S. vice president) Nelson Rockefeller.
		During his first visit to New Guinea in spring 1961 with the Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition, Rockefeller made a side trip to the Asmat with Sam Putnam.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2006/11.09/13-rockefeller.html (477 words)

	WPNGNC
		The West Papua New Guinea National Congress (WPNGNC) is the only organization based in Papua New Guinea that has far wider network of contacts, involvements and aggressive policy fighting for an outright independence for the nation of West Papua New Guinea.
		The New York Agreement, August 15th 1962 was produced and agreed by all contracting parties legitimating process of West Papua to Indonesia through the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority on the 1st of October 1962.
		Recognize the Independence of West Papua New Guinea which was proclaimed on 27th November 1997, at the office of the president of the European parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
	www.wpngnc.org /mr12sep2005.htm (1630 words)

	New Guinea — FactMonster.com
		Largely tropical, New Guinea has vast, rugged mountain ranges such as the Owen Stanley and the Bismarck mts., and many parts of the interior remain quite isolated even today.
		Papua New Guinea: History, Geography, Government, and Culture - Information on Papua New Guinea — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map and the national flag.
		Papua New Guinea Atlas: Maps and Online Resources - Map of Papua New Guinea & articles on flags, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0835416.html (614 words)

	Netherlands - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It is bound by the North Sea to the north and west, Germany to the east and Belgium to the south.
		In 1986 the island of Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles and became an equal partner in the Dutch Kingdom.
		On Jan. 28, 1993 the Parliament passed new legislation on disability benefits, ending the debate and protests that began in 1991 and on Feb. 9, 1993 after 20 years of debate the Parliament also passed a bill that would permit doctors to carry out euthanasia under strict medical and ethical guidelines.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/netherla.htm (1295 words)

	Netherlands New Guinea — Infoplease.com
		Permissiveness of Guinea Pig Alveolar Macrophage Subpopulations to Acute Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection In Vitro(*).
		A traveler's tale: a cuppers' adventure: after visiting the region of Papua New Guinea, for one of its first cupping competition,......
		Prehistoric hunting strategies in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: the evidence of the cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) remains froOne-China......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0916702.html (250 words)

	HyperWar: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: New Guinea
		World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind.
		Of the three divisions in eastern New Guinea--the 20th, 41st, and 51st--only the 41st was near full strength.
		The New Guinea Campaign is really the story of two Allied armies fighting two kinds of war--one of grinding attrition and one of classic maneuver.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-C-NewGuinea (8535 words)

	MANOA Papua New Guinea 1990
		The spring 1990 issue features new fiction, poetry and oral narratives from Papua New Guinea, brought together by two guest editors: Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit and David M. Roskies.
		With more than 800 languages, the literature and oral traditions of Papua New Guinea are more than we could hope to represent comprehensively.
		His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as in The Netherlands and Peru and is in various collections, including those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University.
	www.hawaii.edu /mjournal/text/issues/descriptions/papuanewguinea90.html (414 words)

	PapuaWeb: Judul Papua di - NLA - Papua titles (Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea, Netherlands New Guinea, Deutsch Neu Guinea, New ...
		The "Nieuw-Guinea" keyword search picks up all Dutch language publications related to New Guinea (including documents related to "Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea" and some written in Dutch about British Papua, German New Guinea, Papua New Guinea and the island of New Guinea generally).
		For the sake of completeness, this page also lists all English language documents which refer to "Netherlands New Guinea" in their title as well as all German language documents held by the NLA, including those on Deutsch "Neu Guinea" and other parts of the island(s).
		Archival sources relating to Netherlands New Guinea history : the archives of the Ministry of Colonial Affairs, 1901-1921 -- no. 13.
	www.papuaweb.org /dlib/baru/nla-nieuw-guinea-050211.html (7794 words)

	PapuaWeb: Bibliografi-2 (Bibliographies) about Papua, Irian Jaya, West Papua, Netherlands New Guinea
		New Guinea Bibliography (Indonesian Papua and Papua New Guinea)
		Bibliography and Concordance of Netherlands New Guinea documents on microfiche [pdf 180k].
		Serangga New Guinea - New Guinea Insects (Scott Miller, Smithsonian Institute)
	www.papuaweb.org /bib/index.html (245 words)

	Papua New Guinea
		1884 Partition of New Guinea agreed by Netherlands,
		Japanese Commanders of Occupied New Guinea and Papua
		Full style of the ruler: "Queen of Papua New Guinea and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth."
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Papua_New_Guinea.htm (1336 words)

	PAPUA NEW GUINEA ORCHID NEWS
		In an attempt to clarify the confusion I prepared some notes on this subject for the Papua New Guinea Orchid News hoping to stimulate local interest in further field observations.
		Likewise, the in situ photograph taken by Dr. Reisinger in Papua New Guinea and called P.
		Williams, L.O. (1942) A New Paphiopedilum from Netherlands New Guinea.
	www.orchidspng.com /contrib_garay2.html (1863 words)

	Postage Stamp Information
		West Irian - sometimes known as West New Guinea - "barat" is Indonesian for "west"
		New Britain - 'GRI' - 'Georgius Rex Imperator' - 1914-1915
		New Caledonia - World War 2 issue - issued by Vichy Government in France
	postage.20m.com /c0002750.htm (276 words)

	Papua New Guinea
		Today, Melanesian Pidgin is spoken in different forms in each of these countries.
		It is known as Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, Bislama in Vanuatu, and Pijin in Solomon Islands.
		Today Tok Pisin is the lingua franca of the entire country of Papua New Guinea, known by an estimated three quarters of the country's four million inhabitants and is the most widely used language of urban areas.
	www.goodnewsmedia.com /papuanewguinea (329 words)

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