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The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974. [84] [85] Among the last islands in Oceania to be colonised was Niue (1900).
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Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...
In ancient times, the many islands of Oceania maintained contact with one another through sailing networks. [1] [2] During the colonial era, this intermigration reduced, as colonisers needed Oceanian populations for labour purposes. [3]
The region of Oceania is generally defined geographically to include the subregions of Australasia, [2] Melanesia, [3] Micronesia and Polynesia, and their respective sovereign states. Oceania was originally colonised by Europeans with Australia and New Zealand primarily by the British, and the Pacific Islands primarily by the British, French ...
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Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of 67.39 km 2 (26.02 sq mi), and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 10,898 of a total population of 15,040. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings and international airport are on Rarotonga. Rarotonga is a very popular ...