Comments on: Dutch claim over New Holland and geographical contiguity https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/24/dutch-claim-over-new-holland-and-geographical-contiguity/ Thinking Sovereignty Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:09:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: The annexation of Papua (with background) – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/24/dutch-claim-over-new-holland-and-geographical-contiguity/#comment-135 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:28:54 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3207#comment-135 […] that in 1770, the British already had ambitions on the east part of the PNG island. As per the contiguity principle, to allude to a channel to break the island into two helps a partial British claim. It separates a […]

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