• Thumbnail for Kiritimati
    Kiritimati (Gilbertese pronunciation: [kiˈrɪsmæs]), also known as Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of...
    70 KB (7,725 words) - 07:54, 25 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Line Islands
    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...
    19 KB (1,513 words) - 21:41, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christmas 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...
    5 KB (442 words) - 02:54, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kiribati
    provides service to eastern part of Kiribati (Kiritimati island) through the 234-mile (377 km) Kiritimati Branch with one fiber pair. The network, which...
    138 KB (13,930 words) - 22:21, 20 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cassidy International Airport
    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...
    7 KB (658 words) - 17:49, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bokikokiko
    The bokikokiko, Kiritimati reed warbler or Christmas Island warbler (Acrocephalus aequinoctialis) is a species of warbler in the family Acrocephalidae...
    4 KB (270 words) - 03:31, 24 June 2024
  • 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...
    8 KB (250 words) - 15:31, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atoll
    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...
    28 KB (2,651 words) - 00:53, 2 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for International Date Line
    portions of the Republic of Kiribati, including Millennium Island and Kiritimati in the Line Islands. The first major cities to experience a new day are...
    49 KB (5,771 words) - 01:23, 21 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tabuaeran
    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...
    14 KB (1,350 words) - 00:24, 1 October 2024
  • around this country, so that the Line Islands, including the inhabited Kiritimati island, started the year 2000 on its territory before any other country...
    7 KB (667 words) - 09:00, 6 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pacific Ocean
    diameter of the Moon. Its geographic center is in eastern Kiribati south of Kiritimati, just west from Starbuck Island at 4°58′S 158°45′W / 4.97°S 158.75°W...
    83 KB (8,756 words) - 00:31, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of United States nuclear weapons tests
    (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...
    20 KB (481 words) - 10:15, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Banana, Kiribati
    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...
    3 KB (224 words) - 21:22, 6 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nadi International Airport
    in 2024". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 27 December 2023. "Fiji Airways Closes Kiritimati Reservations in 1Q23". Aeroroutes. December 6, 2022. Retrieved December...
    22 KB (1,874 words) - 01:07, 20 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jessica Watson
    conditions is crossing the equator. Such a crossing was carried out near Kiritimati, though it is not clear whether the planned voyage took the WSSRC's orthodromic...
    58 KB (5,219 words) - 12:17, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Operation Grapple
    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...
    97 KB (11,724 words) - 21:34, 19 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Poland, Kiribati
    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...
    4 KB (226 words) - 21:02, 4 February 2025
  • 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...
    856 bytes (77 words) - 09:45, 4 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tabwakea
    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...
    3 KB (80 words) - 05:39, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nauru Airlines
    Tonga Kanton Island Niue Rarotonga Auckland Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Kiritimati The average load factor throughout the network was only around 20%, with...
    20 KB (1,922 words) - 02:08, 12 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bonriki International Airport
    December 2019. "Nauru Airlines / Air Kiribati Begins Regular Tarawa – Kiritimati Service From Aug 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 2 August 2023. "Nauru Airlines...
    6 KB (521 words) - 18:11, 13 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of towns and villages in Kiribati
    This is a list of towns and villages in Kiribati. There are no cities in the country. Antereen Umwa Tabewa Buakonikai (uninhabited village) Kiebu Little...
    5 KB (247 words) - 11:32, 8 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Köppen climate classification
    Afghanistan (bordering on BWh) Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa Kiritimati, Kiribati Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan (bordering...
    129 KB (11,308 words) - 03:44, 24 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lagoon
    view of Kivalina, Alaska from the northwest. Nearly half the area of Kiritimati is covered with lagoons, some freshwater and some seawater. Nusa Lembongan...
    19 KB (1,860 words) - 00:17, 25 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for UTC+14:00
    Date Line around the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Principal settlement: Kiritimati Kiribati Line Islands The central Pacific Republic of Kiribati introduced...
    4 KB (550 words) - 00:44, 30 June 2024
  • number 3. One merchant ship connects, from time to time, the Line Islands (Kiritimati, Fanning and Washington) and makes stops en route at the Phoenix Islands...
    3 KB (369 words) - 00:46, 9 February 2025
  • 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...
    3 KB (123 words) - 18:18, 6 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tuamotu sandpiper
    population would be the nominate subspecies, P. c. cancellata (Kiritimati sandpiper). The Kiritimati population became extinct some time in the first half of...
    12 KB (1,311 words) - 02:59, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Raised coral atoll
    species introduction, phosphate mining, and even bomb testing. Nauru Kiritimati Banaba Makatea Aldabra Henderson Island Islands portal Benton TG. (1995)...
    1 KB (132 words) - 02:19, 15 February 2025