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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).
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]
Pages in category "History of Oceania" ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands This page was last edited on 16 January 2024, at 21:29 (UTC). ...
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 ...
Category: History of Oceania by former country. 4 languages. ... History of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (3 C) This page was ...
History of the Cook Islands by topic (2 C) History of Fiji by topic (7 C) ... Social history of Oceania (3 C, 1 P) History of sport in Oceania (9 C)
Military history of Oceania by country (8 C) Disestablishments in Oceania by country (10 C) A. ... History of the Solomon Islands (5 C, 5 P) T. History of Tonga ...
European colonisation in Oceania (7 C, 17 P) + History of American Samoa by period ... History of the Cook Islands by period (4 C) E. History of East Timor by period ...