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Administrator of Christmas Island: 10 March 1992 () 9 March 1994 () 1 year, 364 days: −: Peter Woods: Acting Administrator of Christmas Island: 10 March 1994 () 30 June 1994 () 112 days: 16: Danny Ambrose Gillespie: Administrator of Christmas Island: 1 July 1994 () 30 June 1996 ()
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.
Christmas Island: One main island Oceanic Australia: 135 52 1,496 11.1 29 Indian Ocean, Australasia Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Archipelago Oceanic Australia: 14 5.4 596 42.6 110 Indian Ocean, Australasia Curaçao: One main island (central island of the ABC Islands) Continental shelf Netherlands: 444 171 145,834 328 850 Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles
The crooner, famous for his annual Christmas specials, lived in Jupiter Inlet Colony until his death in 2001. He called the area “a little piece of heaven.” Rickie Fowler
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/.
Isaac Newton, b. 1642. One of the most important scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers of the Enlightenment was born on Christmas Day — at least according to the Julian Calendar, which ...
Perry Como. The crooner, famous for his annual Christmas specials, lived in Jupiter Inlet Colony until his death in 2001. He called the area “a little piece of heaven.”
Christmas is an uncommon English-language surname.The origin is uncertain; some genealogy books state that it was given to people born near Christmas, while this is disputed by researchers, and DNA tests performed on men with the surname show that the majority of those descend from a common ancestor.