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.
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
Kiribati
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Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an archipelagic country spanning the Micronesia and Polynesia sub-regions of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The state comprises 32 atolls and o
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
…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. The Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands (the colonial name of Tuvalu) were made British protectorates in 1892 and placed under the jurisdiction…
Declaration of a protectorate on Abemama by Captain EHM Davis, 27 May 1892
Boeing 314 Clipper in cruise, 1940