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    Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote...
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  • Howland Island. One of the Phoenix Islands, known as Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro), has been the subject of inquiry as a possible crash-landing site. The...
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    Rawaki (formerly Phoenix), Manra (formerly Sydney), Birnie, McKean, Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner), and Orona (formerly Hull). The Phoenix Islands Protected...
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  • locate Earhart's Electra or evidence that it landed on Nikumaroro as supposed by the Gardner/Nikumaroro hypothesis. After days of searching the deep cliffs...
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  • of Necho II, King of Egypt A common verbal and written shorthand for Nikumaroro island Niku, a business automation company acquired by CA, Inc. (Computer...
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    developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago: Nikumaroro (Gardner) Manra (Sydney) Orona (Hull) A secondary goal was to enhance...
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  • expansion of the British Empire. Gallagher spent much of his career on Nikumaroro, an island notable for its connection to Amelia Earhart. Gallagher was...
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    locate Earhart's Electra or evidence that it landed on Nikumaroro as supposed by the Gardner/Nikumaroro hypothesis. After days of searching the deep cliffs...
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  • Ocean in 1929. For many years her wreck was a sea mark on the atoll of Nikumaroro. The wreck is now largely broken up. In 1911 Pyman Brothers, a ship management...
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    south. Gardner island, one of the Phoenix Islands that is now known as Nikumaroro, has been the subject of inquiry as a possible crash-landing site but...
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    A popular internet meme suggests that Amelia Earhart crash-landed on Nikumaroro and her remains were rapidly consumed by coconut crabs on the island....
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    Enderbury Island, Birnie Island, Mckean Island, Rawaki, Manra, Orona, and Nikumaroro from the Phoenix Islands; and Teraina, Tabuaeran, Kiritimati, Malden Island...
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  • Antarctica Gardner Canal in British Columbia, Canada Gardner Island or Nikumaroro, part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati Gardner (crater) on the Moon L...
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  • Island Christmas (Kiritimati) Enderbury Island Flint Island Gardner (Nikumaroro) Hull (Orona) Malden Island McKean Island Rawaki Island Starbuck Island...
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    Earhart and Noonan may have landed the plane on Gardner Island (now called Nikumaroro) and died as castaways has been considered. A Japanese air attack on December...
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  • (1693) HMS Norwich (1745) SS Norwich City, 1911 freighter that wrecked on Nikumaroro Island in 1929 USS Norwich, United States Navy ship, in service from 1861...
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  • Nikumaroro...
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  • Ritiati was a settlement on a Nikumaroro atoll in Kiribati.[when?][citation needed][failed verification] The closest settlements, Arariki and Kukutin,...
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    the 8 PIPA islands, (Kanton, Manra, Rawaki, Birnie, Mckean, Enderbury, Nikumaroro and Orona) to ensure there is no impact to marine and terrestrial species...
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    by non-indigenous coconut palms from the islands of Manra, Orona and Nikumaroro. Islands portal List of Guano Island claims List of islands Desert island...
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    canoe to Wagina. There are three villages in Wagina: Kukutin, Arariki and Nikumaroro. The inhabitants of this island are ethnic I-Kiribati (Micronesians),...
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    associated lagoons and perimeter coral reefs in the PIPA, Orona (Hull), Nikumaroro (Gardner), and Canton Island (Abariringa), and five low islands surrounded...
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  • the theory that Earhart and Noonan landed on Gardner Island (now called Nikumaroro) in the Phoenix Island Group, claiming that any transmissions attributed...
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    fleshy algae. Coralline algae and Halimeda were less abundant than at Nikumaroro or McKean. The most abundant coral species at Kanton included: Acroporidae...
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    Also claimed by Haiti. Nikumaroro Oceania Gardner Island 4°40′S 174°31′W / 4.667°S 174.517°W / -4.667; -174.517 (Nikumaroro) Kiribati Treaty of Tarawa...
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    'turtle'. List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain Nikumaroro (aka Gardner Island) Garcia et. al. 2020: 1. Introduction  Garcia et....
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    on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2015-11-24. Cross, Pamela J., Wright, R. "The Nikumaroro bones identification controversy: First-hand examination versus evaluation...
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    29 November 1929 An oil-fired steam freighter that sank on Northwest Nikumaroro 4°39′39″S 174°32′40″W / 4.66083°S 174.54444°W / -4.66083; -174.54444...
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  • States Ni'ihau Hawaiian Islands  United States Niijima Izu Islands  Japan Nikumaroro Phoenix Islands  Kiribati Ninemile Allegheny River,  Pennsylvania  United...
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  • whaler, Joshua is often credited with the discovery of Gardner Island (Nikumaroro), in the Phoenix group in the Pacific Ocean. In the mid-1820s, Gardner...
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