Gilbert and Ellice Islands

English

Proper noun

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

  1. (historical) A British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1976, when the islands were divided into two colonies that shortly afterward became the countries of Kiribati and Tuvalu.
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