Papua New Guinea
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About Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, which forms the eastern part of the island of New Guinea. It is bordered to the west to Indonesia and north of Australia.
It is believed that the earliest population of the islands was done for approximately 50 000 years ago by people from Asia – it is possible that since there was no ocean that separated the islands from the Asian mainland.
The first European to discover the islands was the Portuguese navigator Antonio d’Abreu in 1511, but the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Meneses was probably the first European who visited the islands in the period 1526-27. He called the island Ilhas dos Papua, which means’ the islands they with curly hair. ”
Spanish Inigo Ortix the remedies called a little later the islands of New Guinea, for he felt that people there were from the same ethnic group as those of Guinea in Africa. A number of other explorers like James Cook reached the islands, but it was not until 1793 that the entire main island was annexed on behalf of Great Britain of the East India Company. Netherlands had also been connected with the islands and did not share the annexation, then in 1828 made VOCs to owners of the western part of New Guinea.
The north eastern part of New Guinea, which no one had claimed, was annexed by Germany in 1884. The same year, the southeast of the island taken over by Britain, but in 1906 became the parts transferred to the newly independent country of Australia as a part of Papua. During the first World War II occupied forces from Australia, that part which belonged to Germany and the country had since assigned it as a mandate territory of the League.
During the second World War, New Guinea, Japan invaded from the north. They held their ground through the end of the war in many places. In 1946 the eastern half of the island of New Guinea to Australia, where as when to administer the Territory of Papua & New Guinea. Indonesia took control of what was Dutch New Guinea, the other half of the island in 1962 – and it is now the Indonesian government of Iran Jaya, which is fighting for its independence.
Papua New Guinea had autonomy in 1973 and full independence in 1975. Papua New Guinea joined the UN in 1995.
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