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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).
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). ...
History portal; Oceania portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ... History of the Trust Territory of the Pacific ...
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]
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 ...
Military history of Oceania by country (8 C) Disestablishments in Oceania by country (10 C) A. History of Australia (9 C, 34 P) F. ... History of the Marshall Islands ...
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 ...
[77] [78] Very little is known of the islands' early history. [77] [78] They were sighted in 1529 by the Spanish navigator Alvaro Saavedra Cerón, [78] and several Spanish ships went on to visit them that century. [79] However, the Marshalls lacked enough natural resources to encourage exploitation by outsiders for many years. [78]