Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Continent border<br/>
Date: Feb 24, 2003 @ 23:14<br/>
Author: Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell &lt;kevin@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-331505007">John,<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;I was mistaken about how many countries there are on New Guinea.  I <br/>
&gt;thought there were three, but I think I may have been confused about two <br/>
&gt;different divisions in PNG. Thus it is not where three separate countries meet.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>New Guinea was originally divided into three entities administered by the <br/>
Netherlands, Germany and the UK. The UK portion was transferred to <br/>
Australia in 1902, who also annexed the German portion during WWI to form <br/>
the current state of Papua New Guinea.<br/>
<br/>
In addition, there has recently been a civil war on the island of <br/>
Bougainville which was trying to secede from Papua New Guinea.<br/>
<br/>
Incidentally, it would seem that Germany had a large presence in Oceania in <br/>
the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century, but I&#39;ve never really found <br/>
much information about this. Indeed, it would seem that few Germans are <br/>
even aware they were involved in the region in the past.<br/>
<br/>
Regards,<br/>
<br/>
Kevin Meynell</div>