WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Papua and New Guinea used to be separate entities, influenced and colonized over 250 years by the Sultanate of Tidore, Holland, Germany, Britain and Japan. In 1885 Germany annexed the northern coast ‘New Guinea’ and Britain annexed the southern regions ‘Papua’.

Detailed explanation-2: -German New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea), came under German control in 1884. Its capital was in Rabaul, and it was composed of the north-eastern part of New Guinea (known as Kaiser-Wilhelmsland), and several neighbouring islands.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to the First World War PNG consisted of two separate colonial territories. The territory of Papua was a British colony from 1884 and was later ceded to Australia to administer. New Guinea was part of the German Empire until the First World War when it was occupied by Australian forces in 1914.

Detailed explanation-4: -On November 6, 1884, a British protectorate was proclaimed over the southern coast of New Guinea (the area called Papua) and its adjacent islands. The protectorate, called British New Guinea, was annexed outright on September 4, 1888.