Coming Home to Banaba (http://www.olioweb.me.uk/banaba/coming_home/index.html)
This is the web site of the BBC documentary Coming Home to Banaba. It contains basic information about Banaban history as well as photos and quotes from the documentary.
Historical Overview of the Banabans (http://www.banaban.com/histovie.htm)
Part of the Meet the Banabans web site, this page provides a historical overview of Banaba, an island in Kiribati, and links to information about traditional Banaban history, the Banabans on Rabi and Banaban court cases against the government of the United Kingdom.
Kiribati (http://www.trussel.com/f%5Fkir.htm)
Part of Steve Trussel's EclectiCity web site, this section provides a variety of documents about Kiribati. It includes excerpts from numerous vocabularies, a bibliography of literature on Kiribati, photos, full text versions of books and stories about Kiribati, nineteenth-century missionary efforts there, and the Treaty of Friendship between the US and Kiribati. The web site also contains historical essays and images of stamps from Kiribati.
Timeline: Kiribati (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/2944816.stm)
Run by the British Broadcasting Corporation, this web page provides an outline of the history of Kiribati from the eleventh century until present.
Bue the Ancestor (http://www.janesoceania.com/kiribati_bue/index.html)
Text of a legend about the settlement of Kiribati. From Jane Resture's Oceania Web site.
An Account of the Gilbert Islands (http://www.janesoceania.com/kiribati_sabatier/index.htm)
Early European impression of Kiribati extracted from Father Ernest Sabatier's book. |