Comments on: The annexation of Papua (with background) https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/ Thinking Sovereignty Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:13:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: The Dalrymple/Vaugondy chart of Papua - Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-154 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:57:47 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-154 […] chart from 1774. I have already posted about the ‘ancient channel’ on this […]

]]> By: Dutch claim over New Holland and geographical contiguity - Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-153 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:56:46 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-153 […] also annexed an eastern portion of New Guinea. This was a preemptive response to what I think (*explained more here*) was a manufactured threat that the Germans were about to annex it themselves. Queensland […]

]]> By: What did Alexander Darlymple know about the Torres Strait? - Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-150 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:04:28 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-150 […] least 4 other maps detailing a handful of places along the south coast of Papua. Maybe that’s why he headed up near False Cape – he was looking for the site of one of these other […]

]]> By: 141st Meridian East – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-139 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:41:48 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-139 […] stepped in and annexed the south east quarter of the island. This all happened in 1883 and I have blogged about it here. It was obviously co-ordinated between Germany and England, otherwise Germany would have annexed […]

]]> By: The Dalrymple/Vaugondy chart of Papua – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-138 Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:20:07 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-138 […] chart from 1774. I have already posted about the ‘ancient channel’ on this […]

]]> By: What did Alexander Darlymple know about the Torres Strait? – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-137 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:15:48 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-137 […] least 4 other maps detailing a handful of places along the south coast of Papua. Maybe that’s why he headed up near False Cape – he was looking for the site of one of these other […]

]]> By: Dutch claim over New Holland and geographical contiguity – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/08/28/the-annexation-of-papua-with-background/#comment-136 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:21:33 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=3233#comment-136 […] also annexed an eastern portion of New Guinea. This was a preemptive response to what I think (*explained more here*) was a manufactured threat that the Germans were about to annex it themselves. The British annexed […]

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