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Early on 15 April, the RAN patrol boat HMAS Albany intercepted the 25-metre (82 ft) diesel-powered fishing boat off Ashmore Reef. [1] A boarding party was sent at 09:43, and boarded the vessel, designated "Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel 36" (the 36th vessel to enter Australian waters while carrying asylum seekers or other unauthorised arrivals since the 2001 Tampa Affair), without incident. [1]
The Battle of Christmas Island was a small engagement which began on 31 March 1942, during World War II.Assisted by a mutiny of soldiers of the British Indian Army against their British officers, Imperial Japanese Army troops were able to occupy Christmas Island without any land-based resistance.
Near Christmas Island, the fuel tanker USS Pecos was bombed and sunk by Aichi D3A dive bombers, while the American destroyer USS Edsall was bombed and damaged by Japanese aircraft and then shelled and sunk by the battleships Hiei and Kirishima. The Dutch steamship Roseboom was torpedoed and sunk west of Sumatra by the Japanese submarine I-159.
HMS Warrior, a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier, was the headquarters ship for Britain's atom hydrogen tests on Christmas Island. An advance party arrived on Christmas Island in an RAF Shackleton on 19 June 1956. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) supply ship Fort Beauharnois followed on 23 June, and became a temporary headquarters ship. [53]
With the island at risk of invasion, the deceased was quickly examined by the harbour master, the medical officer and the man in charge of the radio station. The body was buried in an unmarked grave near Flying Fish Cove. [11] [12] The examiners wrote reports that were later destroyed when Japanese forces occupied Christmas Island. They would ...
Christmas Island premieres on Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. ET on Hallmark Channel. When can I watch Christmas Island again? Sunday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. ET. Thursday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. ET.
Taylor Swift threw a party at her Rhode Island beach house, with Travis Kelce, Patrick and Brittany Mahomes, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Bradley Cooper.
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.