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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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",...
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    Ocean Island. The islands became the crown colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1916. The Northern Line Islands, including Christmas Island (Kiritimati)...
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    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...
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    Gilbert Kennedy (March 1898 – 1976) was a teacher, then an administrator in the British colonial service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and...
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    designed by Sir Arthur Grimble in 1931 for the flag of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands British colony and granted in 1937. Following the schedule 2 (section 8)...
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    independent in 1978, after the separation from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1976. Like many former and current British dependencies, the Tuvaluan flag...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    British colony, created in 1970, and a previous House of Representatives of 1967 in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. With decolonisation, starting with...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    South Pacific Ocean that severely affected Fiji, the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu), and the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati). The origins of Severe Tropical Cyclone...
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  • 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...
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  • Thomas Gilbert (sea captain), who spotted the islands of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, now in Kiribati, which are named after him Thomas Gilbert (minister)...
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    Commissioner for the Western Pacific including the Gilbert Islands (as Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony). "Annual Address, 2015". Chief Justice's Chambers...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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