Islands Gilbert and Ellice
The islands Gilbert and Ellice were a British colony of the Pacifique which existed between the January 12th 1916 and on October 1st 1975. The three atolls of Tokelau, under the name of islands of the Union, made of them a time left.
The Ellice islands became the kingdom of the Tuvalu with for Head of State that of the the United Kingdom; the Gilbert islands became the republic of the Kiribati. These two groups of islands had been joined together under the same protectorate as of 1892 and had left the British territories of the Western Pacific (BWPT). The separation of the colony in two distinct States seems due to certain tensions generated by nearest autonomy, between two communities austronésiennes which did not speak the same language (cf Gilbertin).
The battle of Tarawa in 1943 opposed there the Japan American boards and the on the possession of the island of Betio.
They are known British in particular thanks to the emissions of the BBC where to sir Arthur Grimble, a former police chief reside of the colonial office, made them rather famous. Called, the Cinderella of the Empire by Henry Evans Maude, another High-Commissioner, to insist on the general state of abandonment compared to the metropolis, had with the enormous distance, the lacks of resources (except phosphate of the island Ocean) and with the absence of strategic issues.
Simple: Gilbert and Ellice Islands
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