Flag of Tuvalu
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The national flag of Tuvalu is a light blue field with the Union Jack in the canton and nine yellow five-pointed stars on the fly half of the flag. The nine stars represent the nine islands of Tuvalu,
The flag of Tuvalu at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
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The Gilbert and Ellice Islands was a British territory in the southern Pacific Ocean from 1892 to 1976, comprising the present-day independent countries of Kiribati and Tuvalu.
Flag of Tuvalu
…own Blue Ensign from 3 December 1976 to 1 October 1978, when it was a colony in its own right. From 1937 to 1975, Tuvalu flew the Blue Ensign of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, which it was part of. From 1892 to 1975, Tuvalu, then known as the Ellice Islands, was a constituent part of the British protectorate and then colony…
Portrait of a native of the Makin islands, drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate (1841)
Stamp of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Protectorates, depicting a Pandanus pine (1911)
SS Tokelau: Government Steamer Gilbert & Ellice Islands Protectorates (30 April 1909)
1939 stamp of the Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony