Gilbert & Ellice Islands: Located in the Western
Pacific
Stamps consecutively numbered |
| BRITISH PRORECTORATE: Administered as part of the
British Western Pacific Territories between 1892 to 1916 |
| 1911 KGV Stamps of Fiji: Overprinted "GILBERT & ELLICE / PROTECTORATE" |
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½d. Green
1d. Red
2d. Grey
2½d. Ultramarine
5d. Purple & Olive-Green
6d. Dull & Bright Purple
1s. Black/ green
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| 1911 New Stamps inscribed "Gilbert & Ellice Islands Protectorate":
Pandanus Pine |
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½d. Green
1d. Carmine
2d. Grey
2½d. Blue
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| 1912 King George V Portrait |
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½d. Green
½d. Yellow-Green
1d. Carmine
1d. Scarlet
2d. Greyish Slate
2½d. Bright Blue
3d. Purple/ yellow
4d. Black & Red/ yellow
5d. Dull Purple & Sage Green
6d. Dull & Bright Purple
1s. Black/ green
2s. Purple & Blue/ blue
2s6d. Black & Red/ blue
5s. Green & Red/ yellow
£1. Purple & Black/ red
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Gilbert & Ellice Islands became a Crown Colony on 12 January 1916
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| 1918 KGV Overprinted "WAR TAX" |
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1d. Red
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| 1922 KGV Portrait: Additional Colours & Values
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½d. Green
1d. Violet
1½d. Scarlet
2d. Slate-Grey
10s. Green & Red/ emerald
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| 1935 Silver Jubilee of King George V & Queen Mary: King
George V and Windsor Castle |
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1d. Ultramarine & Grey-Black
1½d. Deep Blue & Scarlet
3d. Brown & Deep Blue
1s. Slate & Purple
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| 1937 Coronation of King George VI |
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1d. Violet
1½d. Scarlet
3d. Bright Blue
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| 1939 King George VI Pictorials: Portrait & Island
Views |
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½d. Great Frigate Bird
1d. Pandanus Pine
1½d. Canoe crossing Reef
2d. Canoe & Boat House
2½d. Native House
3d. Seascape
5d. Ellice Islands Canoe
6d. Coconut Palms
1s. Cantilever Jetty, Ocean Island
2s. H.M.S.C.
Nimanoa
2s6d. Gilbert Islands Canoe
5s. Coat of Arms
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| 1946 Victory Celebrations |
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1d. Purple
3d. Blue
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| 1949 Royal Silver Wedding |
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1d. Violet
£1. Scarlet
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| 1949 75th Anniversary of UPU |
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1d. Hermes, Globe & Transport
2d. Spheres, Plane & Boat
3d. Hermes & Globe
1s. UPU Monument
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| 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
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2d. Black & Grey-Black
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| 1956 Queen Elizabeth II Pictorials: Portrait with
Island Views |
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½d. Great Frigate Bird
1d. Pandanus Pine
2d. Canoe & Boat House
2½d. Native House
3d. Seascape
5d. Ellice
Islands Canoe
6d. Coconut Palms
1s. Cantilever Jetty, Ocean Island
2s. H.M.S.C. Nimanoa
2s6d. Gilbert
Islands Canoe
5s. Coat of Arms
10s. Canoe crossing Reef
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| 1960 Sixtieth Anniversary of Phosphate Discovery on Ocean Island
(now Banaba Island) |
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2d. Loading Phosphate
2½d. Phosphate Rock
1s. Phosphate Mining
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| 1963 Freedom from Hunger |
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10c. Ultramarine
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| 1963 International Red Cross Centenary |
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2d. Red & Black
10d. Red & Blue
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| 1964 First Air Service |
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3d. Flight Path
1s. Eastern Reef Heron
3s7d. Plane over Tarawa Lagoon
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| 1964 I.T.U. Centenary |
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3d. Red-Orange & Deep Bluish-Green
2s6d. Turquoise Blue & Light Purple
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| 1965 New Definitives: Island Views & Traditions
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½d. Meeting House & Gilbertese Man
1d. Reef Fishing
2d. Gilbertese Girl
3d. Ruoia Dance
4d. Kamei Dance
5d. Drawing Water
6d. Traditional Fatele Dance
7d. Spear Dance 1s. Ikaroa Babai Plant
1s6d. Ellice Islands
Fatele
2s. Pounding Pulaka
3s7d. Gilbertese Women's Dance
5s. Stick Game
10s. Beating the Box during Fatele
£1. Coat of Arms
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| 1965 International Cooperation Year |
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½d. Reddish Purple & Turquoise Green
3s7d. Deep Bluish-Green & Lavender
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| 1966 Winston Churchill Commemorative |
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½d. New Blue
3d. Deep Green
3s. Brown
3s7d. Bluish Violet
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Gilbert & Ellice Islands changed to Decimal Currency on 14 February 1966
In 1976, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony separated, and were respectively renamed
Kiribati and Tuvalu |