The British Phosphate Commissioners (BPC) was a board of Australian, British, and New Zealand representatives who managed extraction of phosphate from Christmas Island, Nauru, and Banaba (Ocean Island) from 1920 until 1981.[1]
Nauru was a mandate territory governed on behalf of Nauru by Australia, Britain and New Zealand. However, representatives on the Permanent Mandates Commission argued that the activities of the BPC on Nauru were exploitative and not to the benefit of Nauruans. Australia intentionally suppressed information about its activities in Nauru. In 1968, Nauru brought Australia up before the International Court of Justice over the environmental devastation that they had caused on Nauru.[2]
^Maslyn Williams & Barrie Macdonald (1985). The Phosphateers. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84302-6.
^Pedersen, Susan (2015). The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 75–76. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-957048-5.
and 28 Related for: British Phosphate Commission information
The BritishPhosphate Commissioners (BPC) was a board of Australian, British, and New Zealand representatives who managed extraction of phosphate from...
in 1919, creating a board known as the BritishPhosphateCommission (BPC). This took over the rights to phosphate mining. According to the Commonwealth...
July 1941, Australia and New Zealand evacuated dependents of BritishPhosphateCommission employees from Ocean Island. On 8 December 1941, a Japanese flying...
riots Banaba BritishPhosphateCommission Economy of Nauru Environmental impact of agriculture Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust Pacific Phosphate Company Republic...
British Pharmacopoeia Commission, responsible for the British Pharmacopoeia BritishPhosphateCommission, managed extraction of phosphate from Christmas Island...
Island history when the island came under the control of the BritishPhosphateCommission and the mining industry and the supporting community, underwent...
develop plans for its economical extraction. BritishPhosphateCommission Economy of Nauru Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust Pareti, Kite (29 September 2022)...
the British Crown as a trusteeship of the League of Nations, effectively administered by the Australian government. The BritishPhosphateCommission (BPC)...
administration of the island and extraction of the phosphate deposits by an intergovernmental BritishPhosphateCommission (BPC). The terms of the League of Nations...
reached. An account of the Banaban's struggle with the BritishPhosphateCommission and the British government, as of 1985, can be found in the book On Fiji...
Barrie Keith (1985). The Phosphateers: A history of the BritishPhosphate Commissioners and the Christmas Island PhosphateCommission. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne...
and rights of the Pacific Phosphate Company, and administered the commercial operations through the BritishPhosphateCommission. The Island Agreement provided...
mostly decends from phosphate miners who arrived in the early 1900s. Chinese people first arrived in Nauru in 1907 by the Pacific Phosphate Company. At this...
Royal Commission on certain matters in connexion with the BritishPhosphateCommission (1926) Royal Commission on wireless (1927) Royal Commission on the...
part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT) until they became independent. The history of GEIC was mainly characterized by phosphate mining on...
the jetty head. The gauge was upgraded to 914 mm (3 ft) by the BritishPhosphateCommission in 1920. In the past, steam engines were used to power the trains...
it is David Adeang. History of Nauru Economy of Nauru BritishPhosphateCommission Nauru Phosphate Corporation Davies, Anne; Docherty, Ben (3 September...
1956 as the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission with the passing of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act. The organisation took about forty...
five miles from Tripoli. Britain's Royal Air Force maintained a staging post at RAF El Adem. The BritishPhosphateCommission signed an agreement with...
Day Celebrates the taking over of phosphate mining in Nauru from the BritishPhosphateCommission by the Nauru Phosphate Corporation. Established in 2017...
The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory is a Royal Commission established in 2016 by the Australian...
Football League (VFL). In 1930 Richards was working for the BritishPhosphateCommission on Ocean Island when he died after being hit by a runaway truck...
featuring mainly Australians and New Zealanders employed by the BritishPhosphateCommission, and the other featuring members of the local police force, who...
the British in October the same year. Australia and New Zealand purchased the Christmas Island Phosphate company in 1949, and the BritishPhosphate Commission...
World War II. The Melbourne-based BritishPhosphateCommission (BPC) managed the extraction and export of phosphate from the islands and dominated all...
subsequently became a League of Nations mandate. Phosphate mining was taken over by the BritishPhosphateCommission (BPC), a joint venture of Australia, New...
Unions. The Union was formed in March 1974 in response to the BritishPhosphateCommission's (BPC) firing and deportation of Teo Boon How, the chief interpreter...
over the Royal Commission on human relationships (1974 – 1978) Jim McClelland, who presided over the McClelland Royal Commission into British nuclear tests...
Global Information