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Between 9 and 16 October of the same year, Captain Herbert Gibson of HMS Curacoa declared the Ellice Islands to be a British protectorate. [22] The British government found it administratively convenient to govern the Ellice and Gilberts islands together. [40] At first, the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT) were administered by a high ...
A British protectorate was first proclaimed over the Gilberts by Captain Edward Davis of HMS Royalist on 27 May 1892. [16] British official Arthur Mahaffy visited the Islands in 1909. He noted that the "villages are kept in admirable order and the roads are scrupulously clean." A hospital was on each island, as well. [17]
The post was established in 1892 with the title 'Resident Commissioner' by Governor of Fiji John Bates Thurston after the islands were made a British protectorate, having previously been under the supervision of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. [1] [2] [3] The Commissioner initially had jurisdiction over only the Ellice Islands.
In the Pacific Ocean the sixteen islands of the Gilberts (now Kiribati) were declared a British Protectorate by Captain Davis R.N., of HMS Royalist between 27 May and 17 June 1892. The Royalist also visited each of the Ellice Islands, and Captain Davis was requested by islanders to raise the British flag, but he did not have instructions to ...
Former British protectorate and colony. ... Pages in category "Gilbert and Ellice Islands" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The year after Binoka's death, Captain Edward Davis moored at Abemama to proclaim the Gilbert Islands a British protectorate. Murdoch became the District Agent and Tax Collector, setting up local courts and administration that brought peace and order to the lagoon villages and controlled (often with strong measures) the European beachcombers ...
In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert Islands were declared as the British Protectorate by Captain Edward Davis of HMS Royalist (1883) on 27 May 1892. [26] [27] The neighboring Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) were declared a British Protectorate later in 1892. [28]
At this time Tuvalu was known as the Ellice Islands and was administered as a British protectorate as part of the British Western Pacific Territories. In 1916 the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony was established. From 1916 to 1919 the hospital was under the supervision of Dr J. G. McNaughton, when he resigned the position remained vacant until ...