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Pacific Islands (Trust Territory)

LC control no.n 83074225
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Geographic headingPacific Islands (Trust Territory)
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Geographic subdivision usagePacific Islands (Trust Territory)
Variant(s)Pacific Islands (Ter.)
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Beginning date1947
Ending date1994
Found inStatesman's yrbk., 1982-83 (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; in 1946 the US agreed to administer the former Japanese-mandated islands of the Caroline, Marshall and Mariana Groups (except Guam) as a Trusteeship for the UN. Constitutional govts. are functioning in the Mariana Islands (1978), the Marshall Islands (1979), the Federated States of Micronesia (1979) and the Republic of Belau (1981))
Far East and Australasia, 1980-81 (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; UN Trusteeship admin. by US; exec. and admin. auth. exercised by a High Commissioner appt. by the Pres. and under direction of Sec. of the Interior)
Columbia gaz. of the world, 1998 (Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the; consisted of Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands; in 1947 UN approved U.S. trusteeship of islands; Republic of Pelau declared independence in 1994, bringing Trust Territory to an end)
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Invalid LCCNsh 85096474