April 22, 2026A post office was opened at Namatanai on 11 January 1911. It would remain open until Australian forces occupied Namatanai…
April 22, 2026On 4 February 1906, a post office was opened at Simpsonhafen, which was also made the capital of the colony. …
February 8, 2026After the outbreak of World War I, items that could not be delivered to Deutsch-Neuguinea were stamped with a variety…
February 8, 2026Mail from inter-island trips, or Inselfahrt, were typically cancelled via provisional means, including manuscript notations and ship’s handstamps.
February 8, 2026In April 1909, the Neu-Guinea-Zweiglinie (Singapore) resumed operations as the Singapore - Deutsch-Neuguinea Linie using the steamer Manila of the…
February 8, 2026In late 1904 or early 1905, Norddeutscher-Lloyd resumed the Neu-Guinea-Zweiglinie, which had been discontinued in mid-1900, as the Austral-Japan-Linie.
February 8, 2026The Neu-Guinea-Zweiglinie (Hongkong), or New Guinea Branch Line (Hong Kong), ran from Hong Kong to Sydney via the German colonies…
February 8, 2026The Neu-Guinea-Zweiglinie (Singapore), or New Guinea Branch Line (Singapore), was a successor to the Neu-Guinea-Zweiglinie, extending the Singapore-Neuguinea route to…
February 7, 2026The Neu-Guinea-Zweiglinie, or New Guinea Branch Line, began its round-trip service from Singapore to Herbertshöhe, Deutsch-Neuguinea, on 27 April 1893.
February 7, 2026SMS Planet was a survey ship of the Kaiserliche Marine launched on 2 August 1905 and commissioned on 16 November…