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In OTL, England/Britain managed to grab a good number of the temperate/colder temperate areas with ocean coastline as settler colonies. They grabbed the East and West coasts of North America with those climates, the south end of Africa (the only part that comes close in climate) and the areas in Australia and New Zealand.

The two areas that they didn't get (not counting Europe, of course) are in South America and Northeast Asia. Now, I've seen quite a few TL with the English grabbing Buenos Aries and Patagonia in one of the 18th century wars where England and Spain were on opposite sides (pick one) and I don't think it would be too difficult for Santiago to be included in that.

But what I haven't seen is any TL where the English/British end up with Northeast Asia. In this case, Northeast Asia is equal to the OTL Russian Far East, since I think British control of Korea looks more like its control of India than Canada. But the natives of the Kamchatkan Peninsula and most of the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk of the OTL Russian Coastline were considerably closer to Canada's natives. (The Amur river basin peoples were somewhat in between. Not sure how they would compare with say the Iroquois)

Unfortunately, the only TL ideas that I have for ending up with British control of the OTL Russian Far East involve a POD in the 20th century with either the Russian Civil War or an expanded Polish Russian War (1920s) with Britain deciding that the best thing that it can do against the Communists is to attack Vladivostok.

So any ideas on a TL where the English/British end up with some part of OTL Russian Far East *as a Settler Colony*?
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