1900 map fixed. Upon looking at some other areas there were a number of things missing or out of place:
- British-Brazilian border in Roraima wasn't fixed by
arbitration until 1904
- British-Venezuelan border
was fixed by arbitration in 1899 (Venezuela did not repudiate this until 1962 officially and only revived the claim then)
- the borders between Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil
were far less controlled and had more overlapping disputes in 1900
- the Counani dispute wasn't officially resolved until 1900, with France still attempting to claim some kind of control over the area (and still had effective control over some parts of the coast) until
arbitration by the President of Switzerland in December 1900 decided the area belonged to Brazil.
- most of the border areas between Brazil and the European colonies in the the Guianas wasn't under anyone's effective control even though borders were more or less agreed.
- the
Boer War had already started in in 1899 and the British had quickly occupied both Transvaal and Orange Free State (OFS). Pretoria was occupied in June 1900, OFS had been annexed in May 1900 and Transvaal occupied in September 1900 with the war being declared "over" (though a brutal guerrilla campaign would continue well into 1902 so the war wasn't really over).
- Australia was being shown in an odd way as the dominion internal colour would indicate a dominion like form of internal government, but all the Australian colonies were outlined except Western Australia. This isn't representative of the situation at the time. Australia federated on January 1, 1901. This was in accordance with the terms of the
legislation creating it (the
Commonwealth of Australia Act 1900) which was passed in 1900 and given Royal Assent in 1900 also, but which only brought the Commonwealth of Australia into effect on a
day appointed by proclamation (that date was given in September 1900 and was January 1, 1901). Until then all of the Australian colonies remained separate (also Northern Territory was shown as being separate from South Australia, but this is not the case as Northern Territory wasn't transferred to the Commonwealth (and thus separated from South Australia) until 1911). If this was an attempt to represent the Federal Council of Australasia then in 1900 it would have included Fiji, Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. South Australia was only a member between 1888 and 1890 and New South Wales and New Zealand were never members. In any case the Federal Council was extremely weak and had no powers, so it would be odd to represent this on the map when in truth the South African Customs Union has had and always had far more power than the Federal Council could have ever dreamed of having.
- the colouring of the Australian colours as noted, indicated a
dominion-like form of internal government. This was actually something that was
generally (but not always) a precursor to a colony becoming a Dominion and was a legal concept called "responsible government". By 1900 the colonies which had responsible government were Newfoundland, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, New Zealand, Cape Colony and Natal. These have been shown as having responsible government.
- Cape Colony and Natal were shown as provinces of one entity which was incorrect. Natal was governed briefly from Cape Colony in 1844 but was a separate colony and received responsible government (1893) separately from Cape Colony (1872)
- Most of the interior of New Guinea was not controlled by the Dutch, Germans or British (via Queensland) in 1900. The borders between each were fixed, but the interior was mainly under local control and the protectorate over northwestern New Guinea (versus
more direct control in southwestern New Guinea) by the Dutch hadn't been fully established yet.
- Cuba was occupied by the United States in 1900. Spain ceded control at the end of 1898 in the Treaty of Paris but a protectorate wouldn't be established over Cuba until May 1902 when Cuba's independence constitution came into effect with the Platt Amendment incorporated wholesale giving the US the exclusive right to intervene in Cuban domestic affairs. If occupations aren't going to be shown then it needs to be consistent.