What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) was formerly called the Gilbert Islands?
The Republic of Kiribati
What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980?
The many hundreds of islands in the western Pacific region known as Micronesia includes five sovereign nations, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru and which two others?