King George V School (Gilbert and Ellice Islands) South Tarawa, where it opened in 1922. For much of its history its headmaster was a New Zealander, F. G. L. Holland. At some point it moved to Abemama. It moved to Bikenibeu, South Tarawa in 1953. By 1955 students from Motufoua Secondary School in Vaitupu, Ellice Islands (now known as Tuvalu) were boarding at King George V. In 1965 KGV merged with the girls' school Elaine Bernacchi School (EBS) to form the coeducational King George V and Elaine Bernacchi School. It had 150 students in 1955. King George V School (Gilbert and Ellice Islands) King George V School (KGV)
1978 Pacific typhoon season 1978 Pacific typhoon season The 1978 Pacific typhoon season was a very active season that lasted more than a year. It has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1978, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator