Participating states and territories are: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island or the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands.

Commonwealth and off-shore protected areas in the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands Territory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Australia, a division of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, with the exception of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a separate body within the department.

Currently, the two Northern Territory Senators represent the residents of the Northern Territory as well as the Australian external territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands.

Three of these, Norfolk Island ( which enjoys a large degree of autonomy ), the Territory of Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands and the Territory of Christmas Island have permanent populations and also have an Administrator appointed by the Governor-General-in-Council to administer the territory on their behalf.

This electorate includes all of the towns and communities in the Northern Territory outside Darwin, as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are today recorded on the Northern Territory roll.

Two of the three inhabited external territories, namely Christmas Island and Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, are represented by the senators and representatives of the Northern Territory.

The Division of Lingiari encompasses nearly all of the Northern Territory as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands.

The Member for Lingiari also represents voters from Australia's Indian Ocean Territories ( Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands ), while the Northern Territory Senators represent those voters in the Senate.

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district ( the Nicobar Islands were separated and established as the new Nicobar district in 1974 ).

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

British Virgin Islands government publications had traditionally continued to commence with " The Territory of the Virgin Islands ", and passports simply refer to the " Virgin Islands ", and all laws begin with the words " Virgin Islands ".

Map of the Coral Sea Islands Territory

The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia.

The outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef is the boundary between Queensland and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.

The history of the modern Federated States of Micronesia is one of settlement by Micronesians ; colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan ; United Nations trusteeship under United States-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ; and gradual independence beginning with the ratification of a sovereign constitution in 1979.

The United Nations created the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( TTPI ) in 1947.

There is a significant movement in favor of the Territory becoming a commonwealth, which would give it a political status similar to Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

In each case, the colonial power that held the mandate on each territory became the administering power of the trusteeship, except that Japan, which had been defeated in World War II, lost its mandate over the South Pacific islands, which became a " strategic trust territory " known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United States administration.

Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become sovereign states by 1990, including all of the former United Nations Trust Territories with the exception of a few successor entities of the gradually dismembered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( formerly Japan's South Pacific Trust Mandate ).

Along with other Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands were then consolidated into the United-States-governed Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

The US government added the archipelago to the U. S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, along with several other island groups in the South Sea.

Following Japan's defeat in the Second World War, its mandate became a United Nations Trusteeship, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, ruled by the United States.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

The Member for Fraser and the ACT Senators also represent the constituents of the Jervis Bay Territory.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).

The French Territory of Afars and Issas also differed from French Somaliland in terms of government structure, as the position of Governor General changed to that of High Commissioner.

The British Antarctic Survey operates a transcontinental air link between Port Stanley Airport and the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and servicing also other British bases in the British Antarctic Territory using a de Havilland Canada Dash 7.

The Society is best known for its worldly successes, most notably the establishment of three model communities, the first at Harmony, Pennsylvania ; the second, also called Harmony, in the Indiana Territory, now New Harmony, Indiana ; and the third and final town at Economy, now Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

Britain also armed Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory and encouraged them to attack settlers, even though Britain had ceded this territory to the United States by treaties in 1783 and 1794.

This book also contains the English translation of one of Zajdel's short stories, " Particularly Difficult Territory ".

Kabir ’ s has had extensive roles on American television-primetime and daytime, series and miniseries-including Hallmark ’ s African epic Forbidden Territory, and Ken Follett ’ s On Wings of Eagles and also Red Eagle.

Fraser also legislated to give Indigenous Australians control of their traditional lands in the Northern Territory, but would not impose land rights laws on the conservative governments in the states.

Most of West Papua, at that time known as Dutch New Guinea, was occupied, as were large parts of the Territory of New Guinea ( the former German New Guinea, which was also under Australian rule after World War I ), but Papua was protected to a large extent by its southern location and the near-impassable Owen Stanley Ranges to the north.

* Palestinian territories, also known as " Occupied Palestinian Territory ", terms applied to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip collectively, today referring to the Palestinian Authority areas and the Hamas governed Gaza Strip

More modestly, Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands was also named after Stuyvesant during the Dutch West India Company's administration of that Territory.

Splash Damage also developed a downloadable multi-player only sequel called Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, which is one of the most popular free downloadable games on the internet.

This gameplay was also later reutilzied in a full-fledged commercial game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars set in id Software's Quake universe.

Spain also shares land boundaries with France and Andorra along the Pyrenees in the northeast, with Portugal on the west, and with the small British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar near the southernmost tip.

The province also incorporated the former Omani enclave of Gwadar following its purchase in 1958, and the former Federal Capital Territory ( Karachi ) in 1961 ; the latter forming a new division in its own right.

This Act also gave the Yukon Territory its own Member of Parliament.

The Battle of Fort Dearborn ( also known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre ) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Indians that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, but was then part of the Illinois Territory.

But the actual economic effect of its failure was much wider ; the company also acted as a de facto bank in the Territory, allowing advances to be drawn on the company as credit.

The US government also acquired easement rights to the western part of the territory, which became the Oklahoma Territory, for the construction of railroads.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )