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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]
"Collector's numbers are those of C. R. Long in consecutive series. The specimens will be deposited in the U. S. National Herbarium with duplicates, where available, in the Herbarium of the University of Hawaii." The other document, a photocopy, lists plants collected on other islands of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in October and November ...
The islands first used German stamps in 1888, with overprinted German stamps for the Marshall Islands becoming available in 1897. Stamps of German Marshall Islands were also valid in Nauru. After WWI, as part of mandated territory , stamps of Japan were used from 1914 to 1944.
Spennemann, Dirk H.R. (2002). Stamps and Postal History of the German Marshall Islands; Ton Dietz: A postal history of the First World War in Africa and its aftermath - German colonies. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2015–2016. 5 vols. Open Access: I. German Togo, II. Kamerun, III. Deutsch-Südwestafrika (SWA), IV. German East Africa, V. Morocco
The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), [6] 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.
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