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==Location== [[File:TURNER(1884) MAP OF THE TOKELU, ELLICE AND GILBERT ISLANDS.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Map of the Southern Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands and [[Tokelau]], 1884]] The [[Gilbert Islands]]<ref name="Name">Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95.</ref> sometimes also known as ''Kingsmill Islands'' or ''King's-Mill Islands''{{refn|In some 19th century texts, ''Kingsmills'' was applied to the entire Gilberts group. In other 19th century texts, a subset of the northern Gilbert islands was known as '''Scarborough Islands''' and a subset of the southern Gilberts as the '''Kingsmill Group'''.<ref name="Kingsmill">''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam Webster, 1997. p. 594.</ref>|group=Note}} are a chain of sixteen [[atoll]]s and coral islands in the western Pacific Ocean. They are part of [[Remote Oceania]], and traditionally part of the [[Micronesia]] [[subregion]] of [[Oceania]]. The Gilbert Islands are the main part of what is now the [[Kiribati|Republic of Kiribati]] ("Kiribati" is the [[Gilbertese language|Gilbertese]] rendition of "Gilberts"<ref name="Name"/>) The atolls of the Gilbert Islands are arranged in an approximate north-to-south line. Geographically, the [[Equator]] is the dividing line between the northern Gilbert Islands and the southern Gilbert Islands. South of the Gilbert Islands lie the Ellice Islands (now called [[Tuvalu]]), which were previously politically connected as part of the GEIC.<ref name="Maritime">{{cite web |title=Agreement between Tuvalu and Kiribati concerning their Maritime Boundary |url=https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/DEPOSIT/tuv_mzn98_2013_AgreementBetweenTuvaluandKiribati.pdf |date=29 August 2012}}</ref> The [[Tuvalu|Ellice Islands]] comprise three [[reef]] islands and six true [[atoll]]s, spread out between the [[latitude]] of [[5th parallel south|5Β°]] to [[10th parallel south|10Β° south]] and [[longitude]] of [[176th meridian east|176Β°]] to [[180th meridian|180Β°]], west of the [[International Date Line]].<ref name="MAP">{{cite web |url=https://www.mapsland.com/oceania/tuvalu |title=Maps of Tuvalu |access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> The Ellice Islands are midway between [[Hawaii]] and [[Australia]], and they, too, lie in the [[Polynesia]] [[subregion]] of Oceania.
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