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Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is located approximately 350 kilometres (190 nautical miles) south of Java and Sumatra and about 1,550 km (840 nmi) north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland .
Kiritimati (Gilbertese pronunciation: [kiˈrɪsmæs]), also known as Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati . The name is derived from the English word "Christmas" written in Gilbertese according to its phonology , in which the combination ti is pronounced /s/.
1900 monograph featuring three Christmas Island reptiles: (from left to right) Lister's gecko, Christmas Island forest skink, blue-tailed skink.. Christmas Island had five native lizard species at the time of human settlement, although the Christmas Island forest skink (Emoia nativitatis) is now considered extinct, [2] and the blue-tailed skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae) and Lister's gecko ...
The commonly occurring native species do not fall into any of these categories. (A) Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Christmas Island (I) Introduced - a species introduced to Christmas Island as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions (E) Endemic - a species that is native only to Christmas Island
His voyage in 1643 discovered Christmas Island) on Christmas Day of that year, when he sailed past it and named it. [1] Besides this, little is known of Mynors. [2] Royal Mary served the EIC from 1626 to 1639, [3] and apparently longer.
The Christmas Island pipistrelle was endemic to the island until 2009, when the last individual was recorded. In 2016, the species was assessed as extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. [6] The remaining native bat species Pteropus natalis (Christmas Island flying fox) is classified as critically endangered. [7]
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[9] [10] The last record of L. listeri in its native habitat on Christmas Island was in October 2012. [ 10 ] The decline of L. listeri was concurrent with the widespread decline of most endemic mammal and reptile species on Christmas Island, and it is considered that this decline was the result of a common cause, or a combination thereof.