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Polity Oceania

Gilbert and Elice Islands

Attested 1938 CE

1892–1976 British colony in the Pacific

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Gilbert and Elice Islands appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1938 CE

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

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3000 BCE – still standing

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Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

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New Zealand

Founded 1841 CE · attested to 2026 CE

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Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

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Netherlands Indies

1800 CE – 1949 CE

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Milford Sound

3000 BCE – still standing

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Australia

Founded 1901 CE · attested to 2026 CE

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