Anglo-German Declarations about the Western Pacific Ocean

The Anglo-German Declarations about the Western Pacific Ocean were agreements made in 1886 between the British Empire and German Empire regarding their respective spheres of interest in the Pacific. The declarations formalised the boundaries between the protectorates of British New Guinea and German New Guinea, which had been declared in 1884, and laid out a framework for the colonisation of other Pacific Islands as well as commercial and legal interactions.

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