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| Keywords: Colonisation 1822.png Map of major world powers by year derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia Maps of world history As the orriginal licence of the animation was Public Domain this image which has been derived from it is too Andrei nacu public domain animated map by Andrei nacu here 2007-03-22 Andrei nacu map ImageNote 1 1254 497 109 105 1425 625 2 Under the charter of New South Wales about 2/3 of New Zealand and some other islands were included under the colony's jurisdiction The entire drainage basin of Hudson Bay in Canada is not included as part of the British possession of Rupert's Land even though the colony's charter included it The claim to jurisdiction seems to have been the result of a claim along a few arbitrary coordinates - it wasn't exercised and ceased to exist after an amendment to the New South Wales charter in 1825 ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 1088 326 48 48 1425 625 2 The British government did not own Sarawak The Sultanate of Brunei leased and sold most of its territory to an Englishman His family's reign is called the period of the White Raja ImageNoteEnd 2 Maps of the world showing history Maps showing the history of colonies | ||||
