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    Kiritimati (pronounced [kiˈrɪsmæs], also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of...
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    The bokikokiko, Kiritimati reed warbler or Christmas Island warbler (Acrocephalus aequinoctialis) is a species of warbler in the family Acrocephalidae...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Pacific/Kanton Phoenix Islands Canonical +13:00 +13:00 +13 australasia KI Pacific/Kiritimati Line Islands Canonical +14:00 +14:00 +14 australasia FM Pacific/Kosrae...
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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Operation Dominic (category Kiritimati)
    Information Country United States Test site Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Kiribati Pacific Ocean off California Period 1962...
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    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...
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    Suwarrow at 13°16′S latitude and 163° 7′W longitude. Teraina, Tabuaeran, Kiritimati, Malden, Starbuck, Vostok, Caroline, and Flint are part of Kiribati. Kingman...
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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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