Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1893 an fadada nauyin Resident don rufe Tsibirin Gilbert, tare da taken zama Kwamishinan Resident na Gilbert da Ellice Islands. Swayne ya isa Tsibirin Gilbert a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1893. Albashinsa ya kai £ 500 a shekara, wanda aka rufe shi daga kudaden shiga na gida. A shekara ta 1895, an kafa hedkwatar mai karewa a Tarawa kafin a koma tsibirin Ocean a shekarar 1908, wanda ya kasance hedkwatar har zuwa yakin duniya na biyu da mamayar Jafananci na tsibirin Gilbert
Ka yi haƙuri. Tsibirin Gilbert da Ellice Islands sun zama yankuna daban-daban a cikin 1976, amma sun kasance a ƙarƙashin gwamna ɗaya. Bayan samun 'yancin kai na Tuvalu (Tsibirin Ellice) a shekarar 1978, an sake sunan mukamin Gwamnan Tsibirin Gilbert har zuwa lokacin da Kiribati ta sami' yancin kai a shekara mai zuwa.