Territory of Papua#History

British New Guinea was a British colony on the island of New Guinea.

1883 commissioned Thomas McIlwraith, the Prime Minister of Queensland, the police judge on Thursday Iceland, Henry Chester to take the eastern part of New Guinea on behalf of the British government in possession. Chester hoisted on April 4, 1883 in the newly founded settlement of Port Moresby, the British flag. This seizure, to which he was not authorized, but was not recognized by the British government. After the Australian colonies had pledged financial support in the following year, said James Elphinstone Erskine, the Commodore of the Australian Station, the area on November 6, 1884 from 141 ° E to the Eastern Cape as well as some islands near the mainland at the Goshen - street and the south, including the Kosmann island British protectorate British New Guinea (British New Guinea territory ). On December 9, Erskine received the command to extend the British protectorate on the D' Entrecasteaux Islands and the adjacent smaller islands. First, Major General Peter Scratchley, then John Douglas Special Agents of the British protectorate of New Guinea, based in Port Moresby.

On September 4, 1888 followed them as Administrator William MacGregor. He proclaimed immediately after his arrival, the formal taking possession of the place of the Protectorate, whereby British New Guinea (British New Guinea) was a British Crown Colony. Government and administration were made not from London, but by the Queensland Government. On September 1, 1906 British New Guinea was transferred to the administration under the name Papua territory ( Territory of Papua ) to Australia.

Special Agents

• Peter Scratchley, 1884-1885, special representative of Great Britain for the British New Guinea Protectorate
• Hugh Hastings Romilly (acting), 1885-1886
• John Douglas, 1886-1887

Administrators

• William MacGregor, 1888-1895

Governors

• William MacGregor, 1895-1897
• George Le Hunte, 1898-1903
• Christopher Stansfield Robinson (acting), 1903-1904
• Francis Rickman Barton (acting), 1904-1907

• British colonial history
• Historical overseas territory
• History of Papua New Guinea
• History ( Australia and Oceania)
• Historical Territory (Australia and Oceania)