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20: 198: 363: 173:, until the British government determined the colony could not be self-sustaining and evacuated the settlers in 1963, ending the project. The 328: 353: 358: 70: 373: 317: 55: 264: 146:
respectively. Colonisation efforts by Gilbertese settlers were almost immediately hampered by the onset of the
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A secondary goal was to enhance the British presence in the western Pacific in response to growing
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After 1945 the three settlements continued to struggle with supply problems, limited markets for
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The three atolls, Sydney, Hull, and Gardner, were renamed in Gilbertese as
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and in 2005 were officially uninhabited except for a few families on
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Ocean and was the last attempt at human colonisation within the
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Enderbury Island
Pacific
British Empire
Henry E. "Harry" Maude
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
His Excellency
Sir Harry Luke
Governor of Fiji
High Commissioner of the Western Pacific
overpopulation
Gilbert Islands
atolls
Phoenix Islands
archipelago
Nikumaroro
Manra
Orona
American
Guano Islands Act
Kanton
seaplane
Manra Island
Orona Atoll
Nikumaroro
Second World War
civil servant
Gerald Gallagher
copra
drought

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