Ellice Islands

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El·lice Islands

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Ellice Islands

(ˈɛlɪs)

pl n

(Placename) the former name (until 1975) of Tuvalu

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Tu•va•lu

(ˈtu vəˌlu, tuˈvɑ lu)

n.

a parliamentary state consisting of a group of islands in the central Pacific, S of the equator: a former British colony; gained independence 1978. 10,588; 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km). Cap.: Funafuti. Formerly, Ellice Islands.

Tu`va•lu′an, adj., n.

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Ellice Islands - a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii

Tuvalu

Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, TT - a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

Tuvalu - a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978

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troops were stationed in Tuvalu (then known as the Ellice Islands).

U.S. relations with Tuvalu

Five years later Papua New Guinea became independent, as did the Ellice Islands, to become Tuvalu.

Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands

His first journey took him to the Ellice Islands, a chain of small island midway between Hawaii and Australia that is now called Tuvalu, and he crossed the equator five times in a single day as the unescorted ship navigated to evade Japanese submarines.

Christmas, vets on parade

Synthetic Aperture Radar data confirmed that significant portions of Langley and Ellice Islands were inundated on September 25 and 26 (Solomon et al., 2005).

Using multiple sources of knowledge to investigate northern environmental change: regional ecological impacts of a storm surge in the outer Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T

Which 19th century novelist's most popular Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Ellice Islands; 2 It took place in November (the new-style Gregorian calendar was not adopted in Russia until the following year); 3 Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell; 4 Wetherby; 5 The pigeon; 6 A gaucho; 7 A monastery; 8 Sprat; 9 Cooler Than Me; 10 Anthony Trollope.

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For instance, Spruance recalled that when offensive operations commenced in the Central Pacific in the summer of 1943, Funafuti in the Ellice Islands was the nearest base to the Gilbert and Marshall Islands that had a good anchorage.

The quiet warrior back in Newport: Admiral Spruance, the return to the Naval War College, and the lessons of the Pacific War, 1946-1947

The police museum has some of the envelopes Whitehurst posted, supposedly from as far away as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the Solomon Islands, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast.

Forgeries had the stamp of quality; FROM THE ARCHIVES

"Twilight of Pacific Colonialism" tells the story of the waning days of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony of the United Kingdom, through the eyes of a man who called the place home.

Twilight of Pacific Colonialism

As you can imagine, one small bag of stamps can keep you entertained for hours, looking them up in catalogues and discovering, if you're like me, places you've never heard of, like the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.