Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pacific and Indian Ocean...

This series consists of records of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Department of the Commonwealth Office (January 1967 to October 1968) and of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (October 1968 to January 1971), dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the South Pacific Commission and the West Pacific High Commission, Fiji, Tonga, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the New Hebrides, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Pitcairn, and the British Indian Ocean Territory.

From February 1971 the records are those produced by the Pacific Dependent Territories Department dealing with the South Pacific Commission and the West Pacific High Commission, the New Hebrides, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Pitcairn.

By former file reference within file cycles.

For earlier Colonial Office files dealing with relations with this area see CO 1036

For records of the South Pacific Department see FCO 107

For earlier Commonwealth Relations and Commonwealth Office files of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Department see DO 199

• Commonwealth Office, Pacific and Indian Ocean Department, 1967-1968
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Pacific and Indian Ocean Department, 1968-1971
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Pacific Dependent Territories Department, 1971-1978

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Australia and Pacific

Africa

The Pacific and Indian Ocean Department of the Commonwealth Office continued with essentially unaltered responsibilities after October 1967 in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In January 1971, a reorganisation took place to more evenly distribute work between departments. Responsibility for Mauritius, the Seychelles and the British Indian Ocean Territory passed to a new Atlantic and Indian Ocean Department, and the department dealing with UK dependencies in the Pacific was renamed the Pacific Dependent Territories Department.