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| | Pacific Islands, Colonial Australia and New Zealand |
 | | In the Bay of Islands area, on land that was received in trade for axes, the mission built a church and a mission school. |
 | | The French were less successful in the islands of New Caledonia (in Melanesia, between Australia and the Fiji Islands) where Catholic missionaries arrived in 1843 and father Pierre Chanel was killed and eaten, and because of his martyrdom he became Oceania's first saint. |
 | | This was followed in 1857 by the annexation of Jarvis Island, 40 kilometers south of the equator and south of Hawaii, Baker Island about 1,900 kilometers to the west, a little east of the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and on the equator, and, in 1858, Howland Island, about 70 kilometers north of Baker Island. |
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