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Conceived by Henry E. "Harry" Maude, lands commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, [1] and approved by His Excellency Sir Harry Luke, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, the goal of the project was to reduce overpopulation in the southern Gilbert Islands by developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago:
Pages in category "Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Unlike Manra, Orona does not seem to have been worked for guano, but it became a coconut plantation and was made a p. It was the British Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. Residents were evacuated in 1963 due to drought and the declining copra market. Islands of the Settlement Scheme and Enderbury Island
Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme (6 P) Pages in category "Phoenix Islands" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect ...
Gerald Bernard Gallagher (6 July 1912 – 27 September 1941, Gardner Island) was a British government employee, noted as the first officer-in-charge of the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, the last colonial expansion of the British Empire. [1] Gallagher spent much of his career on Nikumaroro, an island notable for its connection to Amelia ...
It was founded in December 1938 by Henry Evans Maude, a British colonial officer, as one of the three villages established by the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme after the group were annexed into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1937.
Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme; R. Rawaki This page was last edited on 25 August 2015, at 03:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme (6 P) S. Settlement schemes in Australia (3 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Settlement schemes in Oceania" The following 4 pages are in ...