List of colonial governors in 1969
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Australia

  • Norfolk Island
    Norfolk Island
    Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...

    • Administrator - Robert Nixon Dalkin, Administrator of Norfolk Island (1968–1972)
    • Head of Government - William M. Randall, President of the Island Council of Norfolk Island (1967–1974)
  • Papua and New Guinea
    Territory of Papua and New Guinea
    The Territory of Papua and New Guinea was established by an administrative union between the Australian-administered territories of Papua and New Guinea in 1949...

    • High Commissioner - David Hay
      David Hay (diplomat)
      Sir David Osborne Hay, CBE, DSO was an Australian soldier, senior public servant and diplomat, becoming Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea, and heading the departments of External Territories and Aboriginal Affairs.-Biography:David Hay was born in 1916 in Corowa,...

      , High Commissioner in Papua and New Guinea (1966–1970)

France

  • Afars and Issas
    Djibouti
    Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti , is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east...

    • Commissioner -
      1. Louis Saget, High Commissioner of the Afars and Issas (1967–1969)
      2. Dominique Ponchardier, High Commissioner of the Afars and Issas (1969–1971)
    • Governing Council - Ali Aref Bourhan, President of the Governing Council (1967–1976)

Portugal

  • Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

    - Camilo Augusto de Miranda Rebocho Vaz, High Commissioner of Angola (1966–1972)

United Kingdom

  • Antigua
    Antigua and Barbuda
    Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

    • Governor - Sir Wilfred Jacobs
      Wilfred Jacobs
      Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs was the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. He held this position from 1 November 1981 to 10 June 1993. He was replaced by James Carlisle. He was also the governor of Antigua and Barbuda from 1967 until that country gained independence in 1981 and he became...

      , Governor of Antigua (1967–1993)
    • Premier - Vere Bird
      Vere Bird
      Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr. was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded him as Prime Minister. In 1994 he was declared a national hero....

      , Premier of Antigua (1960–1971)
  • Bahama Islands
    The Bahamas
    The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

    • Governor - Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, Baron Thurlow
      Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow
      Sir Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG , is a retired British diplomat. He is the only surviving former British colonial governor of The Bahamas....

      , Governor of the Bahama Islands (1968–1972)
    • Prime Minister - Lynden Pindling
      Lynden Pindling
      Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling KCMG, OM, JP , is generally regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and then to independence on 10 July 1973. He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as...

      , Prime Minister of the Bahama Islands (1967–1992)
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