As a British colony, Kiribati was centred in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the old IDL.

British protectorate, 1887 1965 On 16 December 1887, the Sultan of the Maldives signed a contract with the British Governor of Ceylon turning the Maldives into a British protected state, thus giving up the islands' sovereignty in matters of foreign policy, but retaining internal self government.

Although some of the Torres Strait islands lie just off the coast of New Guinea, they were annexed in 1879 by Queensland, then a British colony.

Tom has a British accent.

Cyprus was a British protectorate.

Another Failed British Experiment

The islands came under Britain's sphere of influence in the late 19th century, when each of the Ellice Islands was declared a British Protectorate by Captain Gibson R.N., of , between 9 and 16 October 1892.

Colonisation British colonisation In 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty against William Bligh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pitcairn Islands, which later became a British colony.

She is a British citizen but her native land is France.

In 1890, Zanzibar became a British protectorate.

The inhabitants had nothing in common with Argentina culturally, linguistically, historically or politically.

Most have children studying at expensive British or American universities.

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published weekly in London.

Sophie Dee (born 17 January 1984) is a British actress, stripper, and pornographic actress.

Americans identify BP as a British firm, and they know that Britain is in Europe.

The Bristol M.1 Monoplane Scout was a British monoplane fighter of the First World War.

The Dictator a 1935 British film, in which Christian VII was played by Emlyn Williams.

The Bermuda national football team is the national team of Bermuda and is controlled by the Bermuda Football Association.

This was a headline in a U.K. newspaper, The Guardian, not that long ago.

This paved the way for British colonies on Vancouver Island (1849) and in British Columbia (1858).

In 1831 the three separate colonies became a single British colony known as British Guiana.

Yvonne Ridley (born 23 April 1958) is a British journalist and former Respect Party activist.

After the Indian rebellion of 1857, successive British governments saw Afghanistan as a buffer state.

The Mark IV was first used in mid 1917 at the Battle of Messines Ridge.

The Maldives and a host of Pacific Island states will disappear our twenty first century Atlantis.

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies.

There are also several uninhabited islands to the north of the Loyalty Islands.

Hungary

Iceland

Indonesia

France

Gabon

Gambia

Germany

Greece

Solomon Islands

Annex I

Bahamas H.E. Ms. Paulette A.

MiraMed Institute

Guatemala

Guinea

Latin American and Caribbean States

Ketevan Katie Melua ( , born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian British singer, songwriter and musician.

Sophie Wilson FRS FREng (born Roger Wilson in Leeds, England, in 1957) is a British computer scientist.