Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South Pacific Department: Registered Files (FP file...

FCO 107

1979-1986

This series consists of records of the South Pacific Department dealing with UK relations with Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Hebrides (later Vanuata), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Pitcairn Islands, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Western Samoa.

Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.

For earlier records see FCO 24 FCO 32

FP file series

Public Record(s)

English

1622 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2010 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Australia and Pacific

Africa

Series is accruing

Policy documents selected under the Operation Selection Policies (OSP 13 and OSP 23)

The South Pacific Department was formed in 1979, the successor to the Pacific Dependent Territories Department (1973-1979) and the South West Pacific Department (1973-1979). At its creation, the department had responsibilities for the following: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, the New Hebrides (later Vanuata), the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Western Samoa. In 1986 it also acquired responsibilities for the French and USA territories in the South Pacific.

The South Pacific Department ran until 1994 when it was succeeded by the Far Eastern and Pacific Department.