Territory of New Guinea information

Territory of New Guinea^[1]
Territory of New Guinea
1914–1975
	Flag Badge
Status	Mandate of Australia; (1920–1946); Trust Territory of Australia; (1946–1975)
Capital	Rabaul (1914–1937); Lae (1937–1942); Wau (1942)
Capital-in-exile	Port Moresby
Common languages	English (official); Austronesian languages; Papuan languages; English creoles; German creoles
Monarch
• 1914–1936	George V
• 1952–1975	Elizabeth II
Administrator
• 1914–1915	William Holmes (first)
• 1934–1942	Walter McNicoll (last)
Legislature	Legislative council; House of Assembly
Historical era	Interwar period
• Treaty of Versailles	28 June 1919
• Union with Papua	16 September 1975
Currency	New Guinean pound (1914–1966); Australian dollar (1966–75); Oceanian pound (1942–45)
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	German New Guinea
1949:; Territory of Papua and New Guinea
1975:; Papua New Guinea

The Territory of New Guinea was an Australian-administered League of Nations and then United Nations trust territory on the island of New Guinea from 1914 until 1975. In 1949, the Territory and the Territory of Papua were established in an administrative union by the name of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. That administrative union was renamed as Papua New Guinea in 1971. Notwithstanding that it was part of an administrative union, the Territory of New Guinea at all times retained a distinct legal status and identity until the advent of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.

The initial Australian mandate, entitled the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean situated South of the Equator other than German Samoa and Nauru, was based on the previous German New Guinea, which had been captured and occupied by Australian forces during World War I.

Most of the Territory of New Guinea was occupied by Japan during World War II, between 1942 and 1945. During this time, Rabaul, on the island of New Britain, became a major Japanese base (see New Guinea campaign). After World War II, the territories of Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act (1945–46).

^ New Guinea Act, 1920 to 1945; Papua and New Guinea Act, 1949 (as to its official and commonly used name being Territory of New Guinea and not Trust Territory of New Guinea)
^ McNicoll was the last administrator who ran a separate administration from Papua
^ As to the Territory of New Guinea having continued to have a legal existence as a distinct territory, separate and distinct from the Territory of Papua, note the following Recital to the Papua New Guinea Independence Act, 1975 "WHEREAS the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 provided for the administration of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea by Australia in an administrative union, by the name of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, whilst maintaining the identity and status of the Territory of New Guinea as a Trust Territory and the identity and status of the Territory of Papua as a Possession of the Crown".

[1] New Guinea Act, 1920 to 1945; Papua and New Guinea Act, 1949 (as to its official and commonly used name being Territory of New Guinea and not Trust Territory of New Guinea)

[2] McNicoll was the last administrator who ran a separate administration from Papua

[3] As to the Territory of New Guinea having continued to have a legal existence as a distinct territory, separate and distinct from the Territory of Papua, note the following Recital to the Papua New Guinea Independence Act, 1975 "WHEREAS the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 provided for the administration of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea by Australia in an administrative union, by the name of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, whilst maintaining the identity and status of the Territory of New Guinea as a Trust Territory and the identity and status of the Territory of Papua as a Possession of the Crown".

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