Qualla: Territory of New Guinea https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/5/territory-of-new-guinea-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Territory of New Guinea https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea Territory of New Guinea: Introduction https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea/ Photo credit Sarah Chinnery, Public domain. On 11 September 1914, barely six weeks after the start of the First World War, a Royal Australian Navy force arrived off Rabaul and put troops ashore at Herbertshöhe and Kabakaul. They were looking for German radio stations. They met minor resistance, occupied Rabaul the next day, and accepted Germany's surrender of the colony on 17 September. In the course of a week, the northeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea changed empires. Australia would govern it - first under military control, then a League of Nations mandate, then a United Nations trust - for the next sixty-one years, until the Territory of New Guinea ceased to exist at Papua New Guinea's independence in 1975.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/5/territory-of-new-guinea-wp/rpp5-territory-of-new-guinea-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Territory of New Guinea: Two Colonies, Two Halves https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea/ Photo credit Berlin-George, CC BY-SA 3.0. The island of New Guinea had been sliced between three empires in the 1880s. The Dutch had long claimed the western half. In 1884 Germany formally took the northeast quarter, naming it German New Guinea; the same year, Britain proclaimed a protectorate over the southeast, which i...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/5/territory-of-new-guinea-wp/rpp5-territory-of-new-guinea-two-colonies-two-halves.mp3 0:06 2 full Territory of New Guinea: A Mandate, a Gold Rush, and a Volcano https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea/ Photo credit Berlin-George, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Treaty of Versailles divided the old German and Central Powers' possessions among the victorious Allies. In the Pacific, Japan got Germany's islands north of the equator; New Zealand got German Samoa; Australia took German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Nauru as Le...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/5/territory-of-new-guinea-wp/rpp5-territory-of-new-guinea-a-mandate-a-gold-rush-and-a-volcano.mp3 0:06 3 full Territory of New Guinea: Invasion https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea/ Photo credit Berlin-George, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Pacific War reached New Guinea almost immediately. On 22-23 January 1942, Japanese forces overwhelmed Rabaul and turned it into one of their major forward bases. From there they landed on mainland New Guinea and pushed south toward Port Moresby and Australia itself. A seaborn...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/5/territory-of-new-guinea-wp/rpp5-territory-of-new-guinea-invasion.mp3 0:06 4 full Territory of New Guinea: The Largest Australian Campaign https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea/ Photo credit Berlin-George, CC BY-SA 3.0. What followed - the Battle of Buna-Gona and the offensives of 1943 and 1944 - was the single largest series of connected operations ever mounted by the Australian armed forces. Tropical disease, impossible terrain, and entrenched Japanese defences made every mile expensive. Supre...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/5/territory-of-new-guinea-wp/rpp5-territory-of-new-guinea-the-largest-australian-campaign.mp3 0:06 5 full Territory of New Guinea: Two Territories, One Country https://qualla.com/territory-of-new-guinea/ Photo credit Berlin-George, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the war, civil administration of both Papua and New Guinea was restored under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act of 1945-46. In 1949 the Papua and New Guinea Act formally united the two territories into the Territory of Papua and New Guinea - a legal fictio...

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