[DOC] [TLE] History of Oceania - Wikipedia [PAR] The History of Oceania includes the history of Australia, New Zealand, Papua 
New Guinea, Fiji ... There are three theories regarding the spread of humans 
across the Pacific to .... The original inhabitants of the group of islands now 
named Melanesia were ... In present-day Australia these groups are further 
divided into local... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Pacific Islands - Wikipedia [PAR] History of the Pacific Islands covers the history of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. 
.... Europeans first sighted New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands in the late 18th 
century. The British explorer James Cook sighted Grande Terre in 1774 and 
named it .... In 1962, Western Samoa became the first Pacific Island nation to gain
... [DOC] [TLE] History of Samoa - Wikipedia [PAR] The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the 
Austronesian expansion. European exploration first reached the islands in the 
early 18th century. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville named them Navigator Islands 
in 1768. ... After World War I, German Samoa became a Trust Territory and 
eventually... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ISLANDS - StudyStack [PAR] THESE PACIFIC ISLANDS NAMED FOR AN EXPLORER BECAME A BRITISH 
PROTECTORATE IN THE LATE 1880S, COOK ISLANDS. THE ALEUTIAN... [DOC] [TLE] The Pacific Region and Australasia within the British Empire [PAR] Magellan became the first European to traverse the Pacific Ocean but his ... 
fanciful attempt by these early explorers to connect the islands and their 
resources with the .... The strait between New Guinea and New Britain was later 
named Dampier ... Plans to undertake an expedition to the Pacific in the late 
1740s to study the... [DOC] [TLE] History - Papua New Guinea - Oceania: government queensland ... [PAR] The people who had come earlier gradually adopted these new ways. ... 
Portuguese explorers reported sighting the New Guinea coast as early as 1512, 
but it ... of a Spanish expedition that sailed near the island in 1545, named it New 
Guinea ... In the early 1880s the British colonial government in Queensland, 
across the... [DOC] [TLE] Introduction | NZETC - New Zealand Electronic Text Collection [PAR] Title: Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names they Gave ... of the Pacific's 
Many IslandsPolynesia lie fifteen scattered islands and atolls which ... Great 
Britain proclaimed a protectorate over these islands in the late 1880s, and in ... 
Cook Islands became a semi-autonomous mini-state with internal self-
government... [DOC] [TLE] History of Papua New Guinea - Lonely Planet Travel Information [PAR] The descendents of these people speak non-Austronesian (or Papuan) ... The 
Solomon Islands formed the eastern edge of the inhabited Pacific until the 
second ... became the first European to set foot on the main island  he named it 
Ilhas dos Papuas. .... In 1906 British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua 
and its... [DOC] [TLE] Full text PDF - Centre for Samoan Studies [PAR] These are supported by historical records from the eighteenth century, before .... 
accurate maps and charts locating Pacific islands they had visited. Nevertheless
... [DOC] [TLE] Tuvalu: History - Triposo [PAR] In 1819 the island of Funafuti, was named Ellice's Island; the name Ellice was ... 
The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident ... 
Tuvalu became fully independent within the Commonwealth on 1 October 1978. 
.... From the late 1880s changes occurred with steamships replacing sailing 
vessels. [DOC] [TLE] British Empire - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and 570 ... State of 
All the British Colonies, on the Continent and Islands of America (London, 1708). 
... and claimed what he named Nova Albion for the English Crown (Albion is an 
..... the Western powers as late as the 1880s, Africa became the primary target of
... [DOC] [TLE] history of Germany | Britannica.com [PAR] The German armed forces overrran France during World War II; the British .... in 
the late 19th century became associated with violent anti-Semitic agitation. ... The 
explorer Gustav Nachtigal arrived in July 1884 to annex the Douala coast. .... 
Germany incorporated Nauru into its Marshall Islands protectorate

Question: These Pacific islands named for an explorer became a British protectorate in the late 1880s
Answer: the Cook Islands