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The British ships Charlotte and Scarborough visited the islands in 1788 under the commands of captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall, respectively. [38] The vessels had been part of the First Fleet taking convicts from England to Botany Bay in New South Wales, and were en route to Guangzhou when they passed through the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands. [39]
The earliest Japanese contact with the Marshall Islands dates back to 1884, when a group of pearl divers were blown off course to Lae Atoll during their return voyage from Australia. The pearl divers were believed to be murdered, after the Ada , a British trading ship sailed past the Marshall Islands and found the skeletal remains of the pearl ...
The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), [5] officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), [note 1] is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
This page lists the individual Marshall Islands year pages. It only references years after 1979, when the country gained independence from the United States. Twenty-first century
From 1884 until 1920 the territory was a protectorate (German: Schutzgebiet) of the German Empire. [2] Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago (including New Mecklenburg and New Pomerania), the northern Solomon Islands, the Caroline Islands, Palau, Nauru, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands comprised German New Guinea.
German map of the protectorate (Schutzgebiet) of the Marshall Islands, 1897.Marshall Islands District Administration (Distad) Office, 1978. This article lists the colonial governors of the Marshall Islands, from the establishment of the German colonial presence during the 1885 Carolines Question [1] [2] [3] (as part of German New Guinea), through the American capture of the islands during ...
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