<P> Parts of Scotland also mark Queen Victoria's birthday on the third Monday in May . Local government and higher education institutions typically close on this day . </P> <P> Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday on the second Monday of June . Tuvalu does so on the second Saturday of June . In Saint Kitts and Nevis, the date of the holiday is set each year . </P> <P> The Queen's official birthday is a public holiday in Gibraltar and most other British overseas territories . In 2008, the government of Bermuda decided the day would be, beginning the following year, replaced by National Hero's Day, despite protests from people on the island, who signed a petition calling for retention of Queen's Brithday . The Falkland Islands celebrate the actual day of the Queen's birth, as June occurs in late autumn or winter there . It is a public holiday in Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, where it falls on the third Monday in April . Norfolk Island celebrates the Queen of Australia's birthday on the Monday after the second Saturday in June . </P>

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