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Motifs: Geography, German Empire, German protected areas, colonial rule, 19th century Century, colonial possessions Germany, colonial countries, German colonial empire, Pacific Ocean, German possessions, Papua New Guinea

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The “German Trading and Plantation Company of the South Sea Islands,” founded in 1880, expanded trade and sought imperial protection. In 1884, New Guinea Consortium (later renamed New Guinea Company) agent Otto Finsch claimed the northern coast of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. At 19. In August 1884, Otto von Bismarck pledged his support. In November 1884, the Imperial Navy reached the archipelago with the warships SMS Elisabeth and SMS Hyäne and raised the German flag on Matupi, later on Neupommern, Neulauenburg and in Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land (northeast New Guinea). Shortly before, the southeast of the island of New Guinea (British New Guinea) had already been claimed by Great Britain. In 1885 the New Guinea Company received the imperial letter of protection. The archipelago was named after Otto von Bismarck.
In 1886 there was a territorial agreement with Great Britain, in which the neighboring Solomon Islands were also divided.
From 1885 to 1918 the islands were part of the German colony of German New Guinea in the Pacific under the control of the East Asia Squadron. There were administrative stations in Herbertshöhe (in New Pomerania), Mioko (Neu-Lauenburg), Matupi (Blanchebai), Ralum, etc. Wikipedia

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