In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert Islands and the neighboring Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) were forced to become the British protectorate of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1892.

The entire collection, plus Fanning and Washington islands ( part of the Line Islands ), was made a British colony, also called Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in 1916, as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ).

Most of the Line Islands including Christmas Island, the Phoenix and even the Union ( Tokelau ) islands ( until 1925 ) were incorporated piecemeal into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands over the next 20 years.

One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.

Arthur Grimble became the Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1926.

In 1975 the Ellice Islands separated from the colony to form the independent state of Tuvalu.

Malden was incorporated in the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1972, and included in the portion of the colony which became the Republic of Kiribati in 1979.

The Western Pacific nation of Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is situated northeast of Australia.

The islands came under Britain's sphere of influence in the late 19th century, when the Ellice Islands were declared a British protectorate by Captain Gibson, R. N. of HMS Curaçao between 9th and 16 October 1892.

The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1916 to 1974.

In 1974, the Ellice Islanders voted for separate British dependency status as Tuvalu, separating from the Gilbert Islands which became Kiribati upon independence.

* Brady Ivan, Kinship Reciprocity in the Ellice Islands, Journal of Polynesian Society 81: 3 ( 1972 ), 290-316

The coat of arms dates back to May 1937 when it was granted to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, as Kiribati and Tuvalu were then known.

The Ellice Islands were administered by Britain as part of a protectorate from 1892 to 1916 and as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1916 to 1974.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1 January 1976, when the islands were divided into two different colonies which became independent nations shortly after.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were formerly designated an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code " GE " until 1977.

The first mail service to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was ad hoc, depending on which ships were calling at the various islands.

Its facilities were being utilized as outlying bases for submarines and surface warships, as well as for air staging for future advances being planned against Ellice, the Fiji Islands, and Samoa.

The Gilberts lay within 200 miles ( 300 km ) of the Southern Marshalls and were well within range of United States Army Air Forces B-24 aircraft based in the Ellice Islands, which could provide bombing support and long-range reconnaissance for operations in the Gilberts.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were separated administratively in the 1970s to become the independent Commonwealth nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu, and their Scouting movements took different paths.

* The Gilbert and Ellice Islands, a British protectorate in the South Pacific Ocean, were divided in anticipation of independence.

The protectorate was generally established on this area ( but not on these islands ) by the Pacific Islanders Protection Act of 1857, and then in 1877 for the Western Pacific Territories, but the protectorate on the Gilbert group and on the Ellice group was formal and effective only from 1892, and a Resident Commissioner was appointed in 1893.

* Since 9-16 October 1892 on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands ( British protectorate, presently in Kiribati ), i. e. before they became a colony within the BWPT in 1916 ( since 1916 including the Union Group protectorate, later a separate state called Tokelau ).

The badge was designed by Sir Arthur Grimble in 1932 for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands British colony.

His Life and Letters, edited by Ellice Hopkins, with an introduction by Sir WW Gull, appeared in 1878.

Funafuti was named Ellice's Island after Edward Ellice, a British politician and merchant, by Captain Arent de Peyster, who sighted the islands in 1819 sailing on the ship Rebecca.

Lying east of the Marshall islands, Makin would make an excellent seaplane base, extending Japanese air patrols closer to Howland Island, Baker Island, Tuvalu and Phoenix and Ellice Islands, all held by the Allies and protecting the eastern flank of the Japanese perimeter from an Allied attack.

This is described in A Pattern of Islands ( 1952 ) by British administrator Arthur Grimble, who lived in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands for several decades.

His previous career had been in the colonial service, surviving imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II, when he was stationed in Singapore, to serve terms as British Resident in Brunei and then Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, now Kiribati and Tuvalu, before retiring in 1951.

Gray was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1988 provincial election as a Liberal, defeating incumbent New Democrat Harvey Smith by 624 votes in the riding of Ellice.

Lying east of the Marshall islands, Makin would make an excellent seaplane base, extending Japanese air patrols closer to Howland Island, Baker Island, Tuvalu and Phoenix and Ellice Islands, all held by the Allies and protecting the eastern flank of the Japanese perimeter from an Allied attack.

In the provincial election of 1986, Smith was elected in the Winnipeg riding of Ellice, defeating Progressive Conservative Seech Gajadharsingh by over 2, 000 votes.

A man from the Nukufetau atoll, Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate in 1841.

Lord Hampden married Eliza ( 1818-8 March 1899, Pelham House, Lewes ), daughter of General Robert Ellice by his wife Eliza, illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, in 1838.

It is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Ellice.

Conceived by Henry E. " Harry " Maude, lands commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and approved by Sir Harry Luke, high commissioner of the western Pacific in Fiji, its goal was to reduce overpopulation in the southern Gilbert Islands by developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago:

In May 1819, Captain Arent de Peyster ( or Peyter ) of New York, as captain of the armed brigantine or privateer Rebecca, sailing under British colours, while on a voyage from Valparaíso to India, passed through the southern Tuvalu waters ; de Peyster sighted Nukufetau and Funafuti, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, Edward Ellice, the Member of Parliament for Coventry and the owner of the Rebecca's cargo.

Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy ( Nanumea ); Jack Buckland ( Niutao ); Harry Nitz ( Vaitupu ); John ( also known as Jack ) O ' Brien ( Funafuti ); Alfred Restieaux and Fenisot ( Nukufetau ); and Martin Kleis ( Nui ).

In 1792, a fur trade partnership between John Forsyth, Jacob Jordan and Alexander Ellice attempted to entice Henry and Peter Pond to join them in opposition to the North West Company.

For less than a year between 1862 – 63, Peruvian ships ( and a few Chilean ships under the Peruvian flag ) combed the smaller islands of Polynesia from Easter Island in the eastern Pacific to Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) and the southern islands of Kiribati, seeking recruits to fill the extreme labour shortage in Peru.

The Astoria – Megler Bridge is a steel girder continuous truss bridge that spans the Columbia River between Astoria, Oregon and Point Ellice near Megler, Washington, in the United States.