Kiritimati (Gilbertese pronunciation: [kiˈrɪsmæs], also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of...
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Time in Kiribati (redirect from Pacific/Kiritimati)
around this country, so that the Line Islands, including the inhabited Kiritimati island, started the year 2000 on its territory before any other country...
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Bokikokiko (redirect from Kiritimati Reed-warbler)
The bokikokiko, Kiritimati reed warbler or Christmas Island warbler (Acrocephalus aequinoctialis) is a species of warbler in the family Acrocephalidae...
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Christmas sandpiper (redirect from Kiritimati Sandpiper)
The Christmas sandpiper or Kiritimati sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata) was a small shorebird. It became extinct some time in the first half of the 19th...
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Date Line around the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Principal settlement: Kiritimati Kiribati Line Islands The central Pacific Republic of Kiribati introduced...
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75°W / -4.97; -158.75). Another, Kiritimati, has the largest land area of any atoll in the world. Only Kiritimati, Tabuaeran, and Teraina have a permanent...
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uninterrupted and quite deep. Some archaeologists have argued that Tabuaeran and Kiritimati were one community living across a matched set of islands as despite their...
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provides service to eastern part of Kiribati (Kiritimati island) through the 234-mile (377 km) Kiritimati Branch with one fiber pair. The network, which...
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Cassidy International Airport (category Kiritimati)
CXI, ICAO: PLCH) is an airport located north of Banana, a settlement on Kiritimati (pronounced Christmas) island in Kiribati. Until 2018, it was the only...
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Banana, Kiribati (category Kiritimati)
Banana is a village in Kiribati, located on the island of Kiritimati, within the Archipelago of Line Islands. It is located close to Cassidy International...
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Poland, Kiribati (category Kiritimati)
village in Kiribati, located on the westernmost part of the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands. Poland was named in honor of...
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a relatively new species of triggerfish first identified in 2005 from Kiritimati (Christmas Island) atoll, Kiribati. It is abundant on coral rubble and...
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Tabwakea (category Kiritimati)
Tabwakea is the largest village in Kiribati, located on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands. Tabwakea means turtle in Gilbertese...
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members, with Lavinia Teatao Teem from Abaiang and Jacob Teem representing Kiritimati. On 20 August the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs published a...
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Paris, Kiribati (category Kiritimati)
Paris is an abandoned settlement in Kiribati, located on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands. Paris had a coconut plantation...
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(NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and off Kiritimati Island in the Pacific, plus three in the Atlantic Ocean. Ten other tests...
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London, Kiribati (category Kiritimati)
located on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands. It is the administrative capital of Kiritimati. London was originally named...
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Aeon Point is the easternmost point of Kiritimati Island in Kiribati. There is an abandoned airport, named Aeon Field, near Aeon Point which was constructed...
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(BSh, bordering on BWh) Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa (BSh) Kiritimati, Kiribati (BSh) Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India (BSh) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan...
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Butaritari 0 0 0 Fanning (Tabuaeran) 9 862 99 970 2 972 1108 87.7 BPA Kiritimati (includes Kanton) 99 1483 1280 2862 8 2870 3879 74.0 BPA Kuria 0 0 0 Maiana...
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followed by Rennell Island (660 km2, 250 sq mi). More sources, however, list Kiritimati as the largest atoll in the world in terms of land area. It is also a...
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water hemisphere, is further north-east, in eastern Kiribati south of Kiritimati, just west from Starbuck Island at 4°58′S 158°45′W / 4.97°S 158.75°W...
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Operation Grapple (category Kiritimati)
and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean...
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Tonga Kanton Island Niue Rarotonga Auckland Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Kiritimati The average load factor throughout the network was only around 20%, with...
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Mountains Near Islands Rat Islands Kiribati Line Islands – including Kiritimati (Christmas Island) advanced 24 hours (to UTC+14:00) to the eastern hemisphere...
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view of Kivalina, Alaska from the northwest. Nearly half the area of Kiritimati is covered with lagoons, some freshwater and some seawater. Nusa Lembongan...
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in Kiribati. In December 1960, the British colonial authority gazetted Kiritimati as a bird sanctuary under the "Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony Wild Birds...
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the southwest coast of Kiritimati Island in Kiribati. 1°50′N 157°30′W / 1.833°N 157.500°W / 1.833; -157.500 "20. Kiritimati" (PDF). Office of Te Beretitent...
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the Line Islands of the central Pacific (3 at Malden Island and 6 at Kiritimati/Christmas Island); and 24 in the U.S. as part of joint test series). Often...
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government and not widely recognised by local people. On the island of Kiritimati, squatters live in both villages and on old Burns Philp copra plantations...
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