The history of human activity in Nauru, an island country in thePacific Ocean, began roughly 3,000 years ago when clans settled theisland. Nauru was...
agreement with the UN Security Council to administer much of Micronesia, including the Marshall Islands, as theTrustTerritoryofthePacificIslands. From 1946...
Tanzania and Indonesia. Theterritory comprises the seven atolls ofthe Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands, many very small, amounting...
unitary parliamentary republic is a unitary state with a republican form of government in which the political power is vested in and entrusted to the parliament...
labourers in the Chuuk Islands, which was also occupied by Japan. As part ofthe Allied strategy ofisland hopping from thePacificislands towards the main islands...
too-VAH-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in thePacific Ocean, about midway between...
Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical...
A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its...
north of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Theterritory consists of 181 islands, with a total area of 53.3 km2 (20.6 sq mi). The largest island is Main Island (also...
Union territoriesof Delhi and Puducherry), and State Legislative Councils are conducted by theElection Commission of India (ECI). The State Election Commission...
provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to thePacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's second-largest...
Desroches from the Seychelles, to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. Theislands were formally established as an overseas territoryofthe United Kingdom...
Governor-General of New Zealand define the exact scope ofthe realm. ThePacificislandsofthe Cook Islands and Niue became New Zealand's first colonies...
Declarations about the Western Pacific Ocean to establish terms of their interaction and delineate theterritories with which each was aligned. The German trading...
ThePacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or thePacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific...
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the...
reasons for the rise of Singapore were its nodal position at the tip ofthe Malay Peninsula flanked by thePacific and Indian Oceans, the presence of a natural...
it the status of a protectorate. Theterritory attracted a relatively small number of European settlers, but from the time they first secured political...
PacificIslands Monograph. UP Hawaii. ISBN 978-0-8248-3302-2. Troost, J. Maarten (2006). Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through theIslandsof Fiji...
New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.49-54 Raghuram, G. (February 2007), "'Turnaround' of Indian Railways:A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes"...
the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2024. "Cook Islands should be allowed to decide to join United Nations - Nanaia Mahuta". Pacific Media...
after the war, and in 1949 the two territories were united as theTerritoryof Papua and New Guinea. See also PacificIslands. As part ofthe Destroyers...
claims to these islands. These include all ofthe Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands, Macclesfield Bank and Scarborough Shoal. These islands are administered...
smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south oftheislandsof New Caledonia...
north. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased...