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)
Endemism in the Hawaiian Islands was critical to the formulation of his theory of evolution is far exceeded in the more isolated Hawaiian Islands. The relatively short time that the existing main islands of the archipelago have been above the surface of the ocean (less than 10 million years) is only a fraction of time span over which biological colonization and evolution have occurred in the archipelago. High, volcanic islands have existed in the Pacific far longer, extending in a chain to the northwest; these once mountainous islands are now reduced to submerged banks and coral atolls. Midway Atoll, for example, formed as a volcanic