The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme was begun in 1938 in the western Pacific ocean and was the last attempt at human colonisation within the British Empire.
Conceived by Henry E. "Harry" Maude, lands commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and approved by Sir Harry Luke, high commissioner of the western Pacific in Fiji, its goal was to reduce overpopulation in the southern Gilbert Islands by developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago: Nikumaroro, Manra Island, Orona Atoll.
very ambitious, this scheme. i wonder if there was ever a point when they thought, "ah, let's just forget about it."
very ambitious, this scheme. i wonder if there was ever a point when they thought, "ah, let's just forget about it."
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