Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission
{{Short description|1887–1906 Anglo-French administration of New Hebrides (modern Vanuatu)}}
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| conventional_long_name = Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission
| native_name = {{native name|fr|Commission navale mixte anglo-française}}
| common_name = Sandwich island
| status = Protectorate
| empire = United Kingdom / France
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- {{nowrap|Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission}} {{small|(1887–1889)}}
- {{nowrap|Franceville, New Hebrides}} {{small|(1889–1890)}}
- {{nowrap|Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission}} {{small|(1890–1906)}}}}
| p1 = History of Vanuatu
| p2 = Melanesians
| s1 = Franceville, New Hebrides
| flag_s1 = Flag of Franceville.svg
| s2 = New Hebrides
| flag_s2 = Flag of New Hebrides.svg
| image_flag = Flag of Franceville.svg
| image_map = Vanuatu on the globe (Polynesia centered).svg
| image_map_caption = Location of the New Hebrides, today's Vanuatu.
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- 1887–1889
- 1890–1906}}
| date_start = 16 October
| year_start = 1887
| date_end = 20 October
| year_end = 1906
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The Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission was in charge of the territory of the New Hebrides in the period 1887–1889 and again in 1890–1906. It was briefly suspended by the constitution of the unrecognized independent state of Franceville.
History
During the 19th century, many Australian, British, French, and German settlers settled in the territory of the New Hebrides.[https://books.google.com/books?id=nhNmCiYYxucC&pg=PA422 Tufala Gavman: Reminiscences from the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, Suva 2002, p. 422.]
In 1878 the United Kingdom and France declared all of the New Hebrides to be neutral territory.{{cite web |url=http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/library/Online/Texts/Pacific_archive/New%20Hebrides/1.Agrrement%20between%20Britain%20and%20France%20respecting%20the%20independence%20of%20the%20New%20Hebrides,%20January-FEbruary%201878.PDF |title=Arrangement between Great Britain and France, respecting the Independence of the New Hebrides Group |date=Jan–Feb 1878 |accessdate=2010-01-22 |archive-date=2012-02-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229220044/http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/library/Online/Texts/Pacific_archive/New%20Hebrides/1.Agrrement%20between%20Britain%20and%20France%20respecting%20the%20independence%20of%20the%20New%20Hebrides,%20January-FEbruary%201878.PDF |url-status=dead }}
The New Hebrides became a neutral territory under the loose jurisdiction of the Commission, established by a Convention on 16 October 1887, for the sole purpose of protecting French and British citizens, but claimed no jurisdiction over internal native affairs.
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Category:States and territories established in 1887
Category:States and territories disestablished in 1906
Category:1887 establishments in Oceania