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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South Pacific Department: Registered Files (FP file...
Catalogue reference: FCO 107
What's it about?
FCO 107
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 107
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South Pacific Department: Registered Files (FP file series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- FP file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, South Pacific Department, 1979-1994
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1622 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2010 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Policy documents selected under the Operation Selection Policies (OSP 13 and OSP 23)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16648/
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