Of curious interest there is an important historical link between the 'status of these two land-areas': Heligoland and Tanzania.
As Alistair Boddy-Evans has written in African History:
http://africanhistory.about.com/mbiopage.htm (please see The Scramble for Africa: The Heligoland treaty)
"What has a small island in the North Sea, 40 km off the German coast, got to do with Africa? The island of Heligoland had been under British rule since 1807 when they seized it from the Danes. As a base for naval operations it would prove very important and the German Chancellor, Bismarck, had set a priority on obtaining it. In July 1889 the German ambassador in London, Count Hatzfeld, visited the British prime minister, the Marquess of Salisbury, to open negotiations. Salisbury was worried about the security of British colonies in East Africa -- Germany was making a bid for lands to the north and south of its current holdings -- and Heligoland proved to be a suitable bargaining chip.
What was the Heligoland Treaty? In return for the island of Heligoland the British Prime Pinister, Salisbury, demanded several things: that Germany recognise the British protectorate over Zanzibar and Pemba (previously a semi-independent Sultanate), that Germany renounce its claims to the regions of Witu and Uganda (a clause which aggravated Carl Peters tremendously), that Britain have access between Lake Tanganyika and Uganda, and that Germany leave the region to the west of Lake Nyasa to Britain. Despite the Kaiser's overwhelming desire to obtain Heligoland, the German ambassador, Count Hatzfeld, managed to obtain a few concessions.
The frontier was to run parallel to 1°S west of Lake Victoria until it met the Congo Free State border - this effectively blocked a continuous 'Red Route' of British holdings from the Cape to Cairo. (Britain was unable to persuade King Leopold to give them access rights through the Congo Free State because of protest by Germany and France.) To the east of Lake Victoria the border was to run in a straight line to the coast, to a point opposite the island of Pemba. In addition Germany obtained a narrow strip of land extending from German South West Africa (now Namibia) to the Zambezi River, to be known as the Caprivi strip (named after the German Chancellor at that time). The treaty was ratified on 1 July 1890.
What was unusual about the Heligoland Treaty? The most Euro-centric aspect of this treaty was that Queen Victoria insisted that her grandson, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, be given a mountain in Africa - Britain had two, Germany had none. So the border from Lake Victoria to the coast has a kink in it, putting Mt. Kilimanjaro in German East Africa (now Tanzania)."
Heligoland and Tanzania
Of curious interest there is an important historical link between the 'status of these two land-areas': Heligoland and Tanzania.
As Alistair Boddy-Evans has written in African History:
http://africanhistory.about.com/mbiopage.htm (please see The Scramble for Africa: The Heligoland treaty)
"What has a small island in the North Sea, 40 km off the German coast, got to do with Africa? The island of Heligoland had been under British rule since 1807 when they seized it from the Danes. As a base for naval operations it would prove very important and the German Chancellor, Bismarck, had set a priority on obtaining it. In July 1889 the German ambassador in London, Count Hatzfeld, visited the British prime minister, the Marquess of Salisbury, to open negotiations. Salisbury was worried about the security of British colonies in East Africa -- Germany was making a bid for lands to the north and south of its current holdings -- and Heligoland proved to be a suitable bargaining chip.
What was the Heligoland Treaty? In return for the island of Heligoland the British Prime Pinister, Salisbury, demanded several things: that Germany recognise the British protectorate over Zanzibar and Pemba (previously a semi-independent Sultanate), that Germany renounce its claims to the regions of Witu and Uganda (a clause which aggravated Carl Peters tremendously), that Britain have access between Lake Tanganyika and Uganda, and that Germany leave the region to the west of Lake Nyasa to Britain. Despite the Kaiser's overwhelming desire to obtain Heligoland, the German ambassador, Count Hatzfeld, managed to obtain a few concessions.
The frontier was to run parallel to 1°S west of Lake Victoria until it met the Congo Free State border - this effectively blocked a continuous 'Red Route' of British holdings from the Cape to Cairo. (Britain was unable to persuade King Leopold to give them access rights through the Congo Free State because of protest by Germany and France.) To the east of Lake Victoria the border was to run in a straight line to the coast, to a point opposite the island of Pemba. In addition Germany obtained a narrow strip of land extending from German South West Africa (now Namibia) to the Zambezi River, to be known as the Caprivi strip (named after the German Chancellor at that time). The treaty was ratified on 1 July 1890.
What was unusual about the Heligoland Treaty? The most Euro-centric aspect of this treaty was that Queen Victoria insisted that her grandson, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, be given a mountain in Africa - Britain had two, Germany had none. So the border from Lake Victoria to the coast has a kink in it, putting Mt. Kilimanjaro in German East Africa (now Tanzania)."