The Gilbert and Ellice Islands (GEIC as a colony) in the Pacific Ocean were part of the British Empire from 1892 to 1976. They were a protectorate from... 62 KB (6,898 words) - 10:05, 27 April 2024 |
The Gilbert Islands (Gilbertese: Tungaru; formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill Islands) are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean... 39 KB (4,054 words) - 02:25, 2 April 2024 |
Tuvalu (redirect from Ellice Islands) known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia... 221 KB (22,332 words) - 19:22, 27 April 2024 |
stamps and postal history of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The islands in the South Pacific Ocean were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony from... 5 KB (558 words) - 09:47, 18 October 2021 |
Phoenix Islands were added in 1937 and the five islands of the Central and Southern Line Islands were added in 1972. The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony... 31 KB (3,547 words) - 07:46, 5 April 2024 |
forces occupied the islands, and from 1942 until 1945 Ocean Island which was home to the headquarters of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony (GEIC). On... 18 KB (1,861 words) - 14:33, 1 April 2024 |
History of Tuvalu (redirect from World War II in the Ellice Islands) the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorates." CO 225/86/26804; Wallin, F. 1910 "Report of 30 January 1910 on the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands",... 164 KB (18,701 words) - 18:17, 26 April 2024 |
Kiribati (redirect from Crown Colony of the Gilbert Islands) Ocean Island. The islands became the crown colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1916. The Northern Line Islands, including Christmas Island (Kiritimati)... 134 KB (13,689 words) - 12:33, 23 April 2024 |
Fanning and Washington islands, making them part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In 1919, they annexed Christmas Island to the... 19 KB (1,537 words) - 21:32, 16 March 2024 |
Gilbert Kennedy (March 1898 – 1976) was a teacher, then an administrator in the British colonial service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and... 19 KB (2,204 words) - 14:34, 1 April 2024 |
Flag of Tuvalu (section Changes and controversies) independent in 1978, after the separation from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1976. Like many former and current British dependencies, the Tuvaluan flag... 6 KB (482 words) - 18:24, 29 February 2024 |
The Governor of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was the colonial head of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands civil service from 1892 until 1979. The post was... 9 KB (707 words) - 12:34, 1 March 2024 |
General elections were held in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands on 4 April 1974. All candidates ran as independents. The system of government was changed... 4 KB (341 words) - 13:39, 13 March 2023 |
The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II... 19 KB (2,308 words) - 06:16, 25 April 2024 |
General elections were held in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands on 19 March 1971. Prior to the elections constitutional changes saw the House of Representatives... 4 KB (240 words) - 16:05, 6 January 2023 |
British colony, created in 1970, and a previous House of Representatives of 1967 in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. With decolonisation, starting with... 8 KB (794 words) - 11:15, 20 July 2023 |
Kiritimati (redirect from Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean)) At the first census done in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1931, there were only 38 inhabitants on the island, most of them workers of the Emmanuel... 70 KB (7,613 words) - 07:05, 8 April 2024 |
formally reasserted on 6 August 1936, and in March 1937 the islands were attached to its Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony; establishing a radio station... 9 KB (787 words) - 21:36, 29 December 2023 |
Baháʼí Faith in Kiribati (category 1954 in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands) 1963 there were 14 assemblies. As the Ellice Islands gained independence as Tuvalu and the Gilbert Islands and others formed Kiribati, the communities... 34 KB (4,049 words) - 17:14, 25 April 2024 |
Tabuaeran (redirect from Fanning Island) 1939 the atoll was incorporated into the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In 1979, it gained independence, becoming part of the Republic... 14 KB (1,353 words) - 13:26, 23 March 2024 |
Betio (redirect from Betio Island) 1957 and closed in 1964. In 1967, the Marine Training Centre was created by Hamburg Süd. John Hilary Smith, governor of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands created... 7 KB (631 words) - 16:35, 7 October 2023 |
separating from the Gilbert Islands was held in the Ellice Islands (then administered together as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands) between July and September 1974... 5 KB (501 words) - 19:00, 26 January 2024 |
Cyclone Bebe (section Gilbert and Ellice Islands) South Pacific Ocean that severely affected Fiji, the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu), and the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati). The origins of Severe Tropical Cyclone... 13 KB (1,292 words) - 21:35, 1 January 2024 |
Government House (category Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth) residence of the President of the Gambia. A Government House of Gilbert and Ellice Islands was created in South Tarawa on 1 January 1972. It became the Presidential... 14 KB (1,426 words) - 18:45, 22 April 2024 |
Thomas Gilbert (sea captain), who spotted the islands of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, now in Kiribati, which are named after him Thomas Gilbert (minister)... 1 KB (169 words) - 18:18, 20 June 2022 |
Judiciary of Kiribati (section High Court of the Western Pacific (including the Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1962–1978)) Commissioner for the Western Pacific including the Gilbert Islands (as Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony). "Annual Address, 2015". Chief Justice's Chambers... 6 KB (606 words) - 13:21, 14 November 2023 |
Charles Richard Swayne (category Governors of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands protectorate, from 1892 to 1895. Swayne had spent more than 20 years as a Magistrate at Lomaloma and then in Lau... 3 KB (317 words) - 00:50, 20 December 2023 |
General elections were held in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1967. All candidates ran as independents. Earlier in the year the British government promulgated... 4 KB (267 words) - 16:05, 6 January 2023 |
chiefly used throughout the islands, though Gilbert and Ellice Islands banknotes issued in the 1940s were also in use and were redeemable for Pound Sterling... 9 KB (971 words) - 11:02, 4 March 2024 |