Gilbert Islands

Gilbert Islands

Gilbert Islands has 13 documented cultural connections to places around the world. Below are 12 of the most distinctive.

Butaritari

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Sikeston, Missouri | Tuvalu

Gilbertese language

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Nui (atoll), Tuvalu | Tabwakea, Kiribati | London, Kiribati

Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Marshall Islands | Chuuk Lagoon | Funafuti, Tuvalu

hymn

Connects Gilbert Islands to: New Orleans, Louisiana | Tallinn, Estonia | Ellington, Connecticut | Sardinia, New York

Cyrtosperma merkusii

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Marshall Islands | Kiribati | Nanumea, Tuvalu | Niutao, Tuvalu | Nanumanga, Tuvalu

South Pacific Ocean

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Western United States | Pago Pago, American Samoa | Victoria (state) | Niue | Leavenworth, Washington

Marshall Islands

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Kirtland Air Force Base | Monaco | Northern Mariana Islands | Springdale, Arkansas | Federated States of Micronesia

Solomon Islands

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Wake Island | Tonga | Johnston Atoll | Niue | Palmyra Atoll

reef

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Recife, Brazil | Pernambuco | Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Palmyra Atoll | Benguet

Congregational church

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Rio de Janeiro, Kingdom of PortugalUnited Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the AlgarvesEmpire of Brazil | Maine | Worcester, South Africa | Bennington, Vermont | Rochester, New Hampshire

Bible

Connects Gilbert Islands to: Iceland | Vilnius, Lithuania | Ithaca, New York | Golden Isles of Georgia | Hebron, State of Palestine (civil governance) Israel (H2 area military control)

First World War

Connects Gilbert Islands to: County Dublin | Slovenia | South West England | Liverpool, England | Newfoundland and Labrador

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