(This article is about the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. For other uses of the name, see New Britain is the name of an island in Papua New Guinea. New Britain is also the name of some places in the United States of America: New Britain, Connecticut New Britain, Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... New Britain (disambiguation).)

New Britain is the largest A small island in the Adriatic sea An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on... island in the The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and belonging to Papua New Guinea. The archipelago includes mostly volcanic islands, the most important of which are: Admiralty Islands Duke... Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (the other half is the Papua province of Indonesia). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, and west of the Solomon Islands. Papua New Guinea (Flag) (Coat of... Papua New Guinea. Its principal city is Remains of an internal staircase in Rabaul. Note the depth of the ash. WWII Japanese landing barges near Rabaul Rabaul was the capital of East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea until 1994. It was built within the caldera of a large volcano, and was always vulnerable to an eruption... Rabaul.

For Administrative purposes, it is divided into two provinces:
East New Britain with headquarters in Remains of an internal staircase in Rabaul. Note the depth of the ash. WWII Japanese landing barges near Rabaul Rabaul was the capital of East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea until 1994. It was built within the caldera of a large volcano, and was always vulnerable to an eruption... Rabaul
West New Britain with headquarters in Kimbe.

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When German New Guinea was occupied by the The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was a small Australia shortly after the outbreak of the First World War to seize and destroy German wireless stations in the south-west Pacific. (Samoa.) Britain required the German wireless installations to be destroyed because they were used by the German East... Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar) Years: 1911 1912 1913 - 1914 - 1915 1916 1917 Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1914 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television Science and technology Aviation - Rail... 1914, there was soon a need for This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. Usually a small paper rectangle which is attached to an envelope, signifying that the person sending the letter or package has paid for delivery, it is... postage stamps. This was met by overprinting existing stocks of the (unwatermarked) German New Guinea and The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. island of Wake. Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ Republic of the... Marshall Islands stamps with "G.R.I" (short for Georgius Rex Imperator, King George V King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Emperor of India His Majesty King George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the... George V being king at the time), along with values ranging from one pence to five shillings. The values roughly corresponded with the values of the original stamps; 1p on 3pf and 5pf stamps, 2p on 10pf and 20pf, and so forth.

A first setting of the overprint was issued on October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining. October Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17... 17 October 1914, followed by a second setting (with slightly different spacing) issued on December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 15 days remaining. December Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19... 16 December. In all, some 50 distinct stamps were produced.

In addition, registration labels were pressed into service as 3p stamps, overprinted in the same way as the others. Labels of the Friedrich Wilhelmshaven, Herbertshohe, Kawieng, Kieta, This article is about the Admiralty Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. If you looking for the article about the island in Alaska, see Admiralty Island. manus is the med./lat. name for hand The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. These are also... Manus, and Remains of an internal staircase in Rabaul. Note the depth of the ash. WWII Japanese landing barges near Rabaul Rabaul was the capital of East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea until 1994. It was built within the caldera of a large volcano, and was always vulnerable to an eruption... Rabaul post offices are known to have been overprinted.

In 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). Contents // 1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes Events January Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14... 1915, these improvised stamps of New Britain were superseded by stamps of the "North West Pacific Islands".

Because of the short period of use of the New Britain issues, they are rather uncommon, and expensive to collect; the most common denominations are at least $15 US apiece, and the five shilling overprints fetch prices of over $10,000 on the rare occasions when they come up for sale. In addition, a number of errors were produced in the overprinting process, and these also command high prices.