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New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea)
STATUS OF NEW GUINEA
From 17.12.1920 until 12.12.1946, New Guinea was an Australian mandated territory in which the Crown exercised extra-territorial jurisdiction.
Between 13.12.1946 and 15.09.1975, it was an Australian Trust Territory in which the Crown exercised extra-territorial jurisdiction. Click here for more information on Australia.
From 16.09.1975 until 30.01.1980 (after independence), it combined with Papua to be a foreign country known as Papua New Guinea.