Australian-administered League of Nations (later UN trust) mandate over the former German New Guinea — Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the North Solomons — created in 1920 after Germany's Versailles cession.
United administratively with the Territory of Papua in 1949 to form the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, later independent Papua New Guinea (1975).
A concise, reputable general history covering the Australian mandate administration of New Guinea between the wars.
Oral-history account of colonial life in Australian New Guinea and Papua spanning the mandate era into the postwar period.