Kammala wannan jumla: Ocean Island ya kasance hedkwatar mulkin mallaka har zuwa lokacin da Birtaniya ta kwashe shi a 1942 saboda
Harkokin Jafananci na tsibirin Gilbert. Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II, an sake kafa hedkwatar mulkin mallaka a Tarawa, da farko a tsibirin Betio (wanda sojojin Amurka suka mamaye bayan Yaƙin Tarawa) sannan daga baya a Bairiki.