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Tem Binoka
Tem Binoka was the ruler of the Kingdom of Abemama in the Gilbert Islands from the 1870s until his death in 1891. He ruled as an autocrat, controlling land, labour and the copra trade and dealing directly with European ships. Robert Louis Stevenson, who stayed on Abemama in 1889, made him famous in his book In the South Seas.
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