How The Ellice Islands
p. 55 · Read in the full issue
Were Named
Sir, —No need to wonder any mger [about whether I have heard f the outcome of my inquiry about ow the Ellice Islands were named], ve not only heard about it (PIM, pril, p. 22), but have followed ith interest the repercussions of
my original letter to Tarawa in 1964.
I had no idea that my innocent inquiry would set up such a chain reaction, or that in two years’ time it would have started on its second orbit! Thank you for the detective work by Robert Langdon. The ad ditional information in your latest “Tropicalities” column seems to tie the matter up adequately. It will be interesting now to see whether Mr.
J. G. Peters’ inquiry re the origin of the name “Kingsmill Islands” ( PIM , April, p. 55) can be answered.
K. P. Olsen.
Whangarei, NZ.
Editors’ Note : Reader Olsen will also be interested to know that the information given by Assistant Editor Robert Langdon (PIM, Nov., 1964, p. 83) on the naming of both the Ellice and Gilbert Islands has been incorporated in the 1966 issue of Guide to Conditions in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, a publica tion of the GEIC Information Department.