What the records say
- When
- 1884
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Papua
- Coordinates
- 8.50° S, 146.00° E
- Process
- conquest
- Type
- Conquest (armed force)
- Pop
- 137500
- Area km2
- 234654
- Gaining
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Territory of Papua
Australian external territory from 1902 to 1975
The Territory of Papua was an Australian external territory comprising the south-eastern portion of the island of New Guinea. The Crown colony of British New Guinea was ceded to Australia in 1902 and formally organised as a separate territory in 1906.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation