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The Gilbert and Ellice Islands (GEIC as a colony) in the Pacific Ocean were part of the British Empire from 1892 to 1976. They were a protectorate from 1892 to 12 January 1916, and then a colony until 1 January 1976, and were administered as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT) until they became independent.
On 27 May 1892, Captain Davis proclaimed the Gilbert Islands to be a British Protectorate. [4] On Tarawa, this proclamation averted a massacre of a local faction, the House of Auatubu, badly beaten in battle the day before by their enemies, the House of Teabike. [7]
The natives of the Gilbert Islands are Austronesian peoples, similar in many respects to the natives of the Marshalls or the Carolines. [citation needed] In Mahaffy's 1909 report to the British Government he described the missionaries or Protectorate staff then resident in the Gilbert Islands. [17]
Former British protectorate and colony. ... Pages in category "Gilbert and Ellice Islands" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Curacoa was sent to the Ellice Islands and between 9 and 16 October 1892 Captain Herbert Gibson visited each of the islands to make a formal declaration that the islands were to be a British Protectorate. [3] In June 1893 Captain Gibson visited the southern Solomon Islands and made the formal declaration of the British Solomon Islands ...
She undertook survey work around Western Pacific islands and Hobart. Royalist: May 1888 June 1899 Sent to the Gilbert Islands and on 27 May 1892 the islands were proclaimed to be a British protectorate. [11] Participated in the 1899 Samoan civil war. Orlando: 1 September 1888 1898 Flagship from 1 September 1888 until November 1897. Lizard ...
Herbert William Sumner Gibson was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served in the Australia Station.He was the son of Bishop Edgar Gibson.As captain of the corvette HMS Curacoa he was sent to the Ellice Islands to make a formal declaration that the islands were to be a British Protectorate, which occurred between 9 and 16 October 1892.
In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert Islands were declared as the British Protectorate [broken anchor] 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 ]