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So my recent TL idea I want to start is a foreign power colonizing Papua New Guinea in the before 1884 and I was thinking of the following besides the British or the Dutch:

- France

I see as the most plausible due to the an attempted expedition by De Rays.

- Spain

- Portugal

- Russia

-- Independent Explorers, Companies or Adventurers (Know any that could?)

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Russian had been my main idea of colonizing Papua New Guinea. My POD is that with the Fur Trade declining in Alaska, Russia-American company searches for other places to boost it's profits and decides to start a colony in Papua New Guinea. The government does not support their idea and instead take it upon themselves to colonizing Papua New Guinea and build a fort on the location of modern day Lae and attract settlers from Orthodox nations such as Greece and other nations such as Italy.

Russian-American Company stake their claim on Papua New Guinea and the Brits or the Dutch dont do anything due to how dangerous the island is: Inhabited by headhunters and cannibals but before the start of the Crimean War becomes a profitable colony with it economy based on mining, agriculture and fishing.

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Share your thoughts and ideas. Thanks.
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