Editing Tabiteuea (section)

==History==
"Tabiteuea" is [[Gilbertese language|Gilbertese]] for "no chief allowed"; the island is traditionally [[egalitarianism|egalitarian]] and is known for its huge [[maneaba]].

On 1 July 1799, Charles Bishop and George Bass entered in the lagoon of Tabiteuea and many canoes visited his brig [[List of ships named Nautilus|''Nautilus'']]. Bishop called it Bishop’s Island, and called [[Aanikai]], Drummond’s Island.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last= Dumas 
 |first= Guigone 
 |date= 2014
 |title= Tabiteuea, Kiribati 
 |location= Paris
 |publisher= Hazan
 |pages= 51–52 <!-- or pages= -->
 |isbn=9-782754-10787-7
}}</ref>

The [[Battle of Drummond's Island]] occurred during the [[United States Exploring Expedition]] in April 1841 at Tabiteuea, then known as Drummond's Island. After one sailor from [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] [[USS Peacock (1813)|USS ''Peacock'']], was missing without reason, the US party decided on exacting redress for the incident. Twelve islanders were killed in the fighting and others were wounded. [[Utiroa]] village with more than 1,000 inhabitants, was burned and erased.<ref name="HAE">{{cite book|last=Ellsworth|first=Harry A.|title=One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines 1800 to 1934|year=1974|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=US Marines History and Museums Division|pages=72–74}}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War]], the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate States]] Navy steamer [[CSS Shenandoah]] visited the island on March 23, 1865 in search of United States [[whaler]]s, but the whalers had fled the area. Captain [[James Iredell Waddell|James Waddell]] described the islanders as "of copper colour, short of statue, athletic in form, intelligent and docile" and were "without a stitch of clothing".<ref>WADDELL, James ''C.S.S. Shenandoah: The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell'', 1996, {{ISBN|1-55750-368-0}}, p.143</ref>

In the late 1800s, the two parts of the island were the site of a [[religious war]] when the populace of North Tabiteuea, partly converted to [[Christianity]] and, led by a Hawaiian pastor called [[Kapu (pastor)|Kapu]] who had assembled a "hymn-singing army on a [[crusade]]", invaded and conquered South Tabiteuea, where was recently (1860) created a cult of Tioba (Jehovah).<ref>MACDONALD, Barrie, ''Cinderellas of the Empire: Towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu'', 2001, {{ISBN|982-02-0335-X}}, p.38</ref>

Bishop [[Octave Terrienne]] built his main Catholic Church in [[Tanaeang]], North Tabiteuea in 1936 and established there the see of his [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru|apostolic vicariate]] of the [[Gilbert and Ellice Islands]].<ref>{{cite book
 |last= Dumas 
 |first= Guigone 
 |date= 2014
 |title= Tabiteuea, Kiribati 
 |location= Paris
 |publisher= Hazan
 |pages= 68–69 <!-- or pages= -->
 |isbn=9-782754-10787-7
}}</ref>

Tabiteuea [[Post Office]] opened around 1911 and was renamed Tabiteuea North around 1972. Tabiteuea South Post Office opened on 13 September 1965.<ref name = "Post Office">{{Cite web  | last = Premier Postal History  | title = Post Office List  | publisher = Premier Postal Auctions | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=ge&country= | accessdate = 5 July 2013}}</ref>
[[File:00-250 Tabiteuea.png|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Map of Tabiteuea]]