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The island nations of Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas) and Tuvalu came into being in 1975 when the then British colonial territories of the Gilbert and Ellice islands were granted independence. Kiribati was formed out of the Gilbert Islands, which is the northern group of islands. Tuvalu came into being when the peoples of the southern group, the Ellice Islands, voted not to join with their old neighbours but to go it alone as an independent nation.
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