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Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands are a chain of sixteen coral atolls in the central Pacific, inhabited by Micronesian I-Kiribati. Britain declared a protectorate over them in 1892, joined them with the Ellice Islands as a colony, and they became the core of independent Kiribati in 1979. The atoll kingdom of Abemama lay in the central group.
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