When the power of the colonists began fading in the 1970s, the Pacific islands under colonial rule and UN trusteeship began moving towards independence.
1970 年代起，隨著各殖民母國的國力逐漸式微，昔日受殖民統治與聯合國託管的太平洋島嶼陸續邁向獨立建國之路，如今共有 14 個主權國家與 13 個政治領地。