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- ↑ "Gilbert, Ellice To The Polls Under A Blazing Noonday Sun". 42(4) Pacific Islands Monthly. 1 April 1971. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ↑ Barrie Macdonald (1971) Policy and practice in an atoll territory: British rule in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1892 – 1970
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 New-look Gilbert and Ellice politics may spark ailing public interest Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1971, p24
- ↑ Howard Van Trease (1993) Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati, p8
- 1 2 Decolonization United Nations, July 1979
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