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Kiautschou (China) - Cameroon - German New Guinea - German-East-Africa - German-Samoa - German South West Africa - Togoland
Survey
1884 - 1899 | Mikronesien consisting of the Marianas (ohne Guam), the Palau-Islands, the Carolines and the Marshall-Islands |
Melaniesien consisting of the Bismarck-Archipelago, the Solomon-Islands Buka, Bougainville (-1900 also Choiseul and Isabel), and Kaiser-Wilhelmsland on New Guinea | |
Today: | Federation of Micronesia (Carolines), 1990 independent |
Marshall Islands, 1990 independent | |
(the northern part of) Papua-Niugini, 1975 independent | |
Republic of Nauru, 1968 independent | |
(the northern part of) the Solomon Islands, 1978 independent | |
Republic of Palau, 1994 independent | |
Marianas, U.S. territory with internal autonomy | |
Year of Acquisition: | 1884-1899 (to be completed) |
Total Population: | 600,000, of whom about 1,400 whites, about 400 Germans (1912) |
Seat of Administration: | Rabaul |
Area: | 249,500 square km |
currency: | Reichsmark und Pfennig |
railways: | none |
main export articles: | copra (dries kernels of the cocoa palm), phosphates |
map: | Karte der Verlagsanstalt für Farbphotographie Berlin 1912 |
Governors of the Protectorate | Schutztruppe | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Police troops, recruited among the indigenous |
Historical Views
Communal house on the island of Yap/Micronesia. The gables protrude,creating antechambers on both sides of the quadrangular hall | |
Administrator's residence on Ponape. It is the largest of the Carolines and here the district office for the northern part of the island group was located. | |
King Auweyida of Nauru in front of the flag of the German Empire | |
Village life today, on the Trobriand Islands east of New Guinea | |
Dancing ceremony in New Guinea's mountains, with wooden masks, the body covered with clay and lime |
History
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Postcard with German New Guinea coins
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European residence |
| Police soldier in parade uniform (Micronesia) |
since 1945 the atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, were used by the U.S.A. for nuclear bomb test explosions. |
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