canton and enderbury islands การใช้

• Forming a part of the Canton and Enderbury Islands Republic of Kiribati.
• The "'Canton and Enderbury Islands "'consist of the coral atolls of Canton ( now Hull Island were either abandoned or remained under exclusive British control until 1979.
• On March 3, 1938 President Franklin Roosevelt placed Canton and Enderbury Island under jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Interior, but this claim was strenuously resisted by the British government.
• The United States and the United Kingdom relinquished control over the islands to the government of newly independent Kiribati under the Treaty of Tarawa in 1979 and the Canton and Enderbury Islands Condominium ceased to exist.
• Both parties continued to press their competing claims until 6 April 1939, when the U . S . and Britain agreed to hold Kanton under joint control for the next forty years as the Canton and Enderbury Islands condominium.