Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme

The settlement scheme began in 1938 and ended in 1963 with the transfer of the population of Nikumaroro to Nikumaroro village, Waghena Island in the Solomon Islands.

• Gallagher’s Eighth Progress Report, July – September, 1940.
• Gallagher’s Ninth Progress Report, October – December, 1940.
• Wikipedia article
• “The Colonization of the Phoenix Islands” by H. E. Maude:

• HTML version on TIGHAR website,
• Journal of the Polynesian Society, with photos.

• "Paradise Lost."