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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
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| The Cook Islands were turned over to New Zealand for administration. Ocean Island was added to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. | 1 |
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| British New Guinea (Papua) was turned over to Australia. Australia's paternalistic colonial policy in Papua was shaped by one man, Sir Hubert Murray, who governed the territory from 1906 to 1940. (See The Pacific Islands) | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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