Gilbert islands
The islands Gilbert are a Archipel only made up of Atoll S, which train the Western part of the Kiribati. It is the name of one of the three principal archipelagoes of current the Kiribati, that at the origin of the current name (because Kiribati is the local pronciation, in Gilbertin, of English Gilberts ).
This Christian name was given in 1820, in French, by Johann Adam von Krusenstern, captain (become admiral) Russian, of Germano-Baltic origin , born in Estonia, to pay homage to one of the first crossings of the archipelago by the British captain Thomas Gilbert.
This archipelago is composed of sixteen Atoll S: Abaiang, Abemama, Aranuka, Arorae, Beru, Butaritari, Kuria, Makin (formerly, Little Makin), Maiana, Marakei, Nikunau, Nonouti, Onotoa, Tabiteuea, Tamana, Tarawa; which it is necessary to add Banaba, isolated volcanic island, located at 400 km in the west of the archipelago.
This archipelago was under British protectorate starting from 1892 then British Colonie, gathered with the islands Ellice, as from 1916. It is in this archipelago that the capital of the Kiribati is, Tarawa-South.
It is with broad of this archipelago that is supposed to have sunk the Pequod ( Moby-Dick ).
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