British acquired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Colony_of_Labuan" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Crown Colony of Labuan">Labuan</a> from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Brunei" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sultanate of Brunei">Sultanate of Brunei</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">Great Britain</a>.<sup about="#mwt72" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_24#cite_note-12" id="mwhw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwiA">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt69" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCGM"><a class="external text" href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/94443846" id="mwCGQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The Island of Laburn"</a>. <i id="mwCGU">Geelong Advertiser and Squatters' Advocate</i>. 10 September 1847. p.<span id="mwCGY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>1<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCGc">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCGg">2021-10-23</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt69" class="Z3988" id="mwCGk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Geelong+Advertiser+and+Squatters%27+Advocate&amp;rft.atitle=The+Island+of+Laburn&amp;rft.pages=1&amp;rft.date=1847-09-10&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftrove.nla.gov.au%2Fnewspaper%2Farticle%2F94443846&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+24"></span></span>