British Western Pacific Territories

The British Western Pacific Territories was the name of a colonial entity, created in 1877, for the administration, under a single representative of the British Crown, styled High Commissioner (compare other uses of this title), of a series of relatively minor Pacific islands in and around Oceania

Island Groups

• Canton and Enderbury Islands (1939 to 1971) - Now a part of Kiribati.
• Cook Islands (1893 to 1901) - Now a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand.
• (1877 to 1952) - Now independent.
• Gilbert and Ellice Islands (1916 to 1971) - Now independent as Kiribati and Tuvalu.
• Nauru (1914 to 1921) - Now independent.
• (1906 to 1971) - Now independent as Vanuatu.
• Savage Island (1900 to 1901) - Now Niue, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand.
• Pitcairn Islands (1898 to 1952) - Still a British overseas territory.
• Solomon Islands (1893 to 1971) - Now independent.
• (1900 to 1952) - Now independent.
• Union Islands (1877 to 1926) - Now Tokelau, a dependent territory of New Zealand.

List of High Commissioners for the Western Pacific (1877–1976)

The office was never an independent one, but always filled ex officio the Governorship of one of the constitutive British islands colonies

High Commissioners for the Western Pacific and Governors of Fiji (1877–1953)

Administered from Suva, Fiji:

• Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, 1877–January 1880
• Sir George William Des Vœux, January 1880–January 1887
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