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Thomas Gilbert (sea captain)

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Being now abreast of this island, the extremity ending in a beautiful clump of trees, I hauled up to look at the bay. It appeared to be safe and commodious, sheltered by a long reef running parallel with the island, with two large inlets into the bay. The reef is about 3/4 of a mile from the beach,
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and its national language are also named after Gilbert, "Kiribati" being the pronunciation of his surname in the nation's indigenous language of
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The two vessels encountered their first island in the Gilberts on 17 June 1788. In a 1944 article in
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Cinderellas of the Empire: towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu
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and has several small islands which appear like flower pots.
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A character called Captain Paul Gilbert is portrayed by
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Index

British
Kiribati
John Marshall
captains
East India Company
First Fleet
Charlotte
Scarborough
Botany Bay
Gilbert Islands
Aranuka
Kuria
Abaiang
Tarawa
First Fleet
Australia
post-captain
Arthur Phillip
New South Wales
Life
Samuel Eliot Morison
Abemama
Aranuka
Tarawa
Second
Spratly Islands
Scarborough shoal
South China Sea
Kiribati
Gilbertese

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