GILBERT ISLANDS

group of 16 islands, central Pacific, one of the island groups that form the Republic of Kiribati. The group includes Tarawa, Butaritari (Makin), Little Makin, Marakei, Abaiang, Maiana, Abemama, Kuria, and Aranuka in the north; Nonouti and Tabiteuea in the central region; and Beru, Nikunau, Onotoa, Tamana, and Arorae in the south. The total land area is 102 sq mi (260 sq km). The equator runs through the center of the group. Nikunau was explored by British Commodore John Byron in 1765; other islands were explored by captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall in 1788, and the remainder were visited between 1799 and 1824. The British made the islands a protectorate in 1892 and a colony in 1915–16. Tarawa, Butaritari, Abaiang, Marakei, and Abemama were occupied by the Japanese in 1941 and liberated by U.S. forces in 1943.

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books on: Gilbert Islands  - 1442 results

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Gilbert Murray, an Unfinished Autobiography: With Contributions by His Friends
Book by Jean Smith, Arnold Toynbee, Gilbert Murray; George Allen and Unwin, 1960
Subjects: Murray, Gilbert--1866-1957
...to us, for his body now lies in our ground." There was no applause. The soft tapping of the drums continued as Ahuia Ove retired into the background. 1 ____________________ 1 Pacific Islands Monthly , May 15, 1940.
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Greek Poetry and Life: Essays Presented to Gilbert Murray on His Seventieth Birthday, January 2, 1936
Book by Gilbert Murray; The Clarendon Press, 1936
Subjects: Greek Drama--History And Criticism, Greek Philology, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Murray, Gilbert--1866-1957
...fears of Jewish exiles, the cross-currents of Palestinian politics, and the repercussion of these mainland events among the islands. 6 The Medes meanwhile were working their way westwards through the highlands, and in 591 B.C. crossed swords with the...
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The Gilbert & Sullivan Book
Book by Leslie Baily; Cassell, 1952
Subjects: Gilbert, W. S--(William Schwenck)--1836-1911, Sullivan, Arthur--Sir--1842-1900
...n ., 374 - n ., 386 Virgin Islands, 415 Vivandiere, La Gilbert , 46 WAGNER, 16 , 220 -2...417 Wedding March, The Gilbert , 88 -9, 344 n . Weekly Dispatch...180 , 268 Wicked World, The Gilbert , 87 , 90 , 222 , 279 -80 Wilde...
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Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography
Book by Michael Ainger; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Gilbert, W. S--(William Schwenck)--1836-1911--Criticism And Interpretation, Sullivan, Arthur--Sir--1842-1900--Criticism And Interpretation
...fortunes, they were in need of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. To make...it. On 16 January 1895, Gilbert, Kitty, and two young friends...comprehensive tour of the islands. Two days before leaving England, Gilbert had replied to a letter sent...
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W. S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre
Book by Jane W. Stedman; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Dramatists, English--19th Century--Biography, Gilbert, W. S--(William Schwenck)--1836-1911, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Biography, Librettists--Great Britain--Biography, Theater--Great Britain--History--19th Century
...when he came out. Happily, Gilbert wrote to Mary Talbot, I am...while Edward VII was dying, Gilbert went to London for a not very...Gibraltar, Tangiers, the Canary Islands, Madeira, and Vigo. He was...productions had devalued the pieces. Gilbert continued his work as a magistrate...
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journal articles on: Gilbert Islands  - 432 results

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Instruments of Identity: Alton Augustus Adams Sr., the Navy Band of the Virgin Islands, and the Sounds of Social Change
Journal article by Mark Clague; Black Music Research Journal, 1998
Subjects: Band music--Social aspects, Conductors (Music)--Biography, Imperialism--Social aspects, Music and society--Analysis, U.S. Virgin Islands--Music
...therefore more malleable meaning on the islands than on the mainland. For Virgin Island residents who had heard "The Stars...here. Metronome July 1924. The Virgin Islands band. Hampton Student undated. Virgin Island band charms city. Boston Chronicle undated. Virgin Islands band conquers Washington. Unidentified...
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'The Chiefs' Country': A Malaitan View of the Conflict in Solomon Islands
Journal article by Michael Kwa'Ioloa, Ben Burt; Oceania, Vol. 77, 2007
Subjects: Community development--Management, Community development--Political aspects, Community relations--Forecasts and trends, Community relations--Political aspects, Solomon Islands--Military aspects, Solomon Islands--Political aspects
...BURT, B. KWAIOLOA, M. 2001 A Solomon Islands Chronicle, as told by Samuel Alasaa...Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands. Canberra: Pandanus Books. KEESING...Traditional Culture: The Politics of Kastom in Island Melanesia) KWAIOLOA, M. BURT, B...Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. London: British Museum Press. MACDONALD...
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Sovasova and the Problem of Sameness: Converging Interpretive Frameworks for Making Sense of HIV and AIDS in the Trobriand Islands
Journal article by Katherine Lepani; Oceania, Vol. 77, 2007
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)--Complications and side effects, AIDS (Disease)--Development and progression, AIDS (Disease)--Diagnosis, AIDS (Disease)--Research, HIV (Viruses)--Complications and side effects, HIV (Viruses)--Development and progression, HIV (Viruses)--Diagnosis, HIV (Viruses)--Research, HIV--Complications and side effects, HIV--Development and progression, HIV--Diagnosis, HIV--Research, Herbal medicine--Health aspects, Herbal medicine--Usage, Medicine, Botanic--Health aspects, Medicine, Botanic--Usage, Medicine, Herbal--Health aspects, Medicine, Herbal--Usage, Trobriand Islands--Health aspects
...is very, very important on Trobriand Islands. Through custom become realities. Belief...Sexuality, and Reproduction in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. Master of Public...Life among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. Third Edition...
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Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology of a Mid-cretaceous, High-latitude Floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Journal article by H. J. Falcon-Lang, D. J. Cantrill, C. J. Nichols; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 158, 2001
Subjects: Alexander Island, Biological diversity, Ecology, Geology, Trees
...latitude Floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica by H. J. Falcon...meander-belts in SE Alexander Island, Antarctica, and comprised...biomes. Fieldwork on Alexander Island by two of us (G.J.N...petrographic thin sections, Chris Gilbert and Pete Bucktrout for preparing...
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Recent Archaeological Findings at Qaranilaca Cave, Vanuabalavu Island, Fiji
Journal article by Frank R Thomas, Patrick D. Nunn, Tamara Osborne, Roselyn Kumar, Francis Areki, Sepeti Matararaba, David Steadman, Geoff Hope; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 39, 2004
Subjects: Caves--Discovery and exploration
...and fisherwomen of the Lau Islands, Fiji. In S. J. ODay...recent findings on Nayau, Lau Islands, Fiji. New Zealand Journal...collecting on San Clemente Island, California. Journal of...gathering strategies in the Gilbert Islands group, Kiribati. Doctoral...
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magazine articles on: Gilbert Islands  - 326 results

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Terms of Engagement: Lima Gillick on Chris Gilbert
Magazine article by Liam Gillick; Artforum International, Vol. 45, September 2006
Subjects: Art museum curators--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Art museums--Officials and employees, Gilbert, Chris--Appointments, resignations and dismissals
...the past twenty years, but Gilbert doesnt seem to have left in...distributed by e-mail--Gilbert writes that art institutions...there would at best result in "islands" of sanity that would most...escape gross dualisms." For Gilbert, it seems that such critical...
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Bombing Bali Ha'i: We Love Tropical Islands, but That Doesn't Prevent Us from Using Them for Target Practice
Magazine article by Elaine Robbins; E, Vol. 6, April 1995
Subjects: Bombing and gunnery ranges--Reports, Bombings--Environmental aspects, Islands of the Pacific--Environmental aspects
...South Pacifics Bali Hai, islands have long represented an escape...1941, the peaceful PaCific islands were transformed into the...through 1944, Allied soldiers island-hopped through the Gilbert, the Marshall, the Caroline and the Mariana islands in an effort to capture or...
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Tuvalu: Drowning or Waving: The Low-Lying Islands of the Pacific Nation of Have Long Been Seen as the Most Likely First Victims of Global Climate Change. and Already, Several Islands Are Experiencing Regular Episodes of Flooding. but Is There Any Truth Behind the Headline Stories of an Imminent Exodus?
Magazine article by Kennedy Warne; Geographical, Vol. 80, October 2008
Subjects: Environmental degradation--Influence, Environmental degradation--Tuvalu, Global temperature changes--Influence, Tuvalu--Environmental aspects
...the world, a group of islands located midway between...levels to rise. For an island nation such as Tuvalu...idea of low-lying islands going the way of Atlantis...when the Ellice and Gilbert Islands separated in 1975 into...coastal erosion. His home island is Niutao. He tells...
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Makin Island
Magazine article by Walter Karig, Eric Purdon; Sea Classics, Vol. 38, May 2005
...placed in an easterly direction across the island. But the Marines were able to overrun...disturbed and alerted the enemy on this little island. Natives, who were invariably friendly...by this time been deployed across the island and was advancing south, Company B being...
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Small Islands: Awash in a Sea of Troubles
Magazine article by Anjali Acharya; World Watch, Vol. 8, November 1995
Subjects: Archipelagoes--Environmental aspects, Caribbean Area--Environmental aspects, Environmental protection--Evaluation, Pacific States--Environmental aspects
...Aruba 62 193 (*) Cook Islands 17 236 1,830 Palau 16 459...Adapted from UNESCO, 1994 Islands are particularly vulnerable...1970 and 1989, 13 were small island states. Islands are often too small either...surges in 1991. Hurricanes Gilbert in 1988 and Hugo in 1989 pounded...
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Who Cares for the Pioneers? Gilbert and Hortense, Two of Andrea Levy's Small Island Protagonists Would Be Well into Their 70s by Now. after a Lifetime Here, How Would They Now Face the Challenge of Growing Old in a Country That First Shunned Their Arrival? Bafta-Winning Birmingham Author Mandy Richards Reports on the Particular Cultural Perspective That Shapes How Elderly Black Britons Are Cared For
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 5, 2006
Subjects: Aged, Elderly
Who Cares for the Pioneers? Gilbert and Hortense, Two of Andrea Levys Small Island Protagonists Would Be Well into Their 70s by Now. after a Lifetime Here...Andrea Levy winner of the 2004 Orange prize for fiction for her book Small Island
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Giggles with Mr Gilbert; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 27, 2011
...valet, too, to every four. Gilbert renamed the Mantelpiece HMS...followed the expiry of the Gilbert copyright at the end of 1961...of many talents: W.S. Gilbert and one of his Bab Ballads...bridges: linking the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and Kyushu (Japans south island); connecting Kyushu to the...
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Giggles with Mr Gilbert; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 27, 2011
...too, to every four. Gilbert renamed the Mantelpiece...followed the expiry of the Gilbert copyright at the end...linking the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and Kyushu (Japans south island); connecting Kyushu...Honshu (Japans largest island) 15,000 years ago...Japanese who dominate the islands. It is believed that...many talents: W.S. Gilbert and one of his Etiquette...
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Giggles with Mr Gilbert; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 27, 2011
...too, to every four. Gilbert renamed the Mantelpiece...followed the expiry of the Gilbert copyright at the end...linking the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and Kyushu (Japans south island); connecting Kyushu...Honshu (Japans largest island) 15,000 years ago...Japanese who dominate the islands. It is believed that...many talents: W.S. Gilbert and one of his Etiquette...
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SEA OF HEROES; TV EPIC Reveals Bravery of Troops Waging Island Campaign
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), March 28, 2010
Subjects: Spielberg, Steven
...Pacific campaign was brutal from one island to another, using each as a base for capturing the next - started in the Gilbert Islands, when US forces struck Tarawa Atoll. Island after island was pummelled by naval and aerial bombardments...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gilbert Islands  - 25 results

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Gilbert Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GILBERT ISLANDS group of 16 islands, central Pacific, one of the island groups that form the Republic of Kiribati...Commodore John Byron in 1765; other islands were explored by captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall in 1788, and the...
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS former British colony in the central and S Pacific; see Kiribati and Tuvalu . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Phoenix Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PHOENIX ISLANDS group of eight islands, 11 sq mi (28 sq km), central...or Abariringa) and Enderbury Island. The other islands include Rawaki (formerly Phoenix...1937) the Phoenix group in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony. In...
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Oceanic Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...works produced by the island peoples of the S and...New Guinea and the islands to its north and east...Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert islands), and Polynesia (which includes the Hawaiian Islands, the Samoas, Tonga, New Zealand, and Easter Island). Melanesia Wood carvings...
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Micronesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...W Pacific Ocean, north of the equator. Micronesia includes the Caroline Islands , Marshall Islands , Mariana Islands (see Northern Mariana Islands and Guam , Gilbert Islands , and Nauru . The inhabitants are of Australoid and Polynesian stock...
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