Gilbert and Ellice Islands

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Location of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Flag of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 1937 to 1979

As Gilbert and Ellice Islands one was Pacific island region referred to the 1892-1915 first a British protectorate from 1916 a Crown Colony (Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) was.

The islands of the former colony, however, did not belong geologically to a common archipelago .

Up to 58,000 people lived in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands region - with a total land area of ​​971 km².

The former island region included

  1. the Gilbert Islands
  2. the Ellice Islands
  3. the ocean island
  4. the phoenix islands
  5. Tokelau
  6. as well as some uninhabited islands of the Central Polynesian Sporades .

In 1976 the Gilbert and Ellice Islands were split up as a common territory. Since 1978 the Ellice Islands (now: Tuvalu ) and since 1979 - together with other islands - also the Gilbert Islands (now: Kiribati ) have each formed independent island states .

See also

literature

  • history
    • Discovery story
  1. Henry Evans Maude : The Gilbert Islands observed. A source book of European contacts with, and observations of, the Gilbert Islands and the Gilbertese, from 1537 to 1873. Compiled by HE Maude. Homa Press, Adelaide 2006.
  • Political history
  1. Harald Werber: Kiribati. Political and economic change during the protection period 1892–1916. LIT, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50299-5 .
  2. Barrie Macdonald : Cinderellas of the Empire: Towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu . Institute of Pacific Studies (University of the South Pacific), Suva 2001, ISBN 982-02-0335-X . (Note: standard work).
  3. Kiribati. Aspects of history. Tarawa 1979.
  4. Peter McQuarrie: Conflict in Kiribati: A History of the Second World War . Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies (University of Canterbury), Christchurch 2000, ISBN 1-877175-21-8 .
  5. Howard Van Trease (Ed.): Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati . Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies (University of Canterbury) Christchurch, Institute of Pacific Studies (University of the South Pacific), Suva 1993, ISBN 982-02-0081-4 .
  • Culture
    • Cultural history
  1. Henry Evans Maude: The evolution of the Gilbertese boti. An ethnohistorical interpretation. Institute of Pacific Studies and Gilbert Islands Extension Center of the University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1977 (new edition from: Polynesian Society, Wellington 1963).
  2. Henry Evans Maude: The Gilbertese maneaba. The Institute of Pacific Studies and the Kiribati Extension Center of the University of the South Pacific, (Suva) 1980.
  3. Henry Evans Maude: Of islands and men. Studies in Pacific history. Oxford University Press, Melbourne / New York 1968 (Bibliography: pp. 373–397).
  4. Arthur Francis Grimble : Tungaru traditions. Writings on the atoll culture of the Gilbert Islands. Edited by HE Maude. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria 1989 (bibliography pp. 357-375), ISBN 0-522-84386-7 . (Note: standard work).
  5. Arthur Francis Grimble: An anthology of Gilbertese oral tradition. From the Grimble papers and other collections. Translated by AF Grimble and Reid Cowell. Edited by HC and HE Maude. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva 1994, ISBN 0-646-17265-4 .
  6. Arthur Francis Grimble: A Pattern of Islands. New edition. Eland, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-906011-45-1 . (First edition: Murray, London 1952; US title: We chose the Islands ).
  7. Gerd Koch : The material culture of the Gilbert Islands. Nonouti, Tabiteuea, Onotoa. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin 1965. (Note: standard work).
  8. Gerd Koch: The material culture of the Ellice Islands. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, 1961 (note: standard work).
  • Ethnobotany
  1. Katharine Luomala : Ethnobotany of the Gilbert Islands. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum , Honolulu 1953. ( Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin. 213).
  • language
  1. Ernest Sabatier : Dictionnaire Gilbertin-Français. Catholic Mission Press, Tabuiroa, Gilbert Islands 1952.
    1. English edition: Gilbertese-English dictionary. Te tekitinari n taetae ni Kiribati ma n Ingiriti. Translated by Sister Mary Oliva. South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau, Sydney 1971.
  2. A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary based on the works of Hiram Bingham, DD and Father Ernest Sabatier, MSC (translated by Sr. M. Oliva). Compiled by Stephen Trussel and Gordon W. Groves, University of Hawaii, 1978.
  3. Sheldon P. Harrison: Linguistic evidence for Polynesian influence in the Gilbert Islands. In: Language contact and change in the Austronesian world. Ed. by Tom Dutton, Darrell T. Tryon. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-012786-5 , pp. 321-350 ( Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs. 77). Incomplete online preview .
  4. Niko Besnier: Tuvaluan. A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific . Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-02456-0 .
  • Islands
    • Banaba
  1. Raobeia Ken Sigrah , Stacey M. King: Te rii ni Banaba. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji 2001, ISBN 982-02-0322-8 (bibliography pp. 312-316). Detailed online preview
  2. Henry Evans Maude: The book of Banaba. From the Maude and Grimble papers and published works. Edited by HC and HE Maude. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, (Suva) 1994, ISBN 0-646-20128-X .
  • Phoenix Islands
  1. Henry Evans Maude: "The Colonization of the Phoenix Islands". 1968. Detailed report by the responsible Land Commissioner of the Gilbert Islands on the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme .

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