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A History of Kiribati: from the Earliest Times to the 40th Anniversary of the Republic, Michael Ravell Walsh, 2020 (Independently published). Stanton, W. R. (1975). The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520025578.
Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Atoll; in the Line Islands), the largest coral atoll (in terms of land area, not dimensions) in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific. Kiribati straddles the equator in the Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia.
Kiribati (/ ˈ k ɪr ɪ b æ s / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese:), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11] [12] [3] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa atoll.
Geography of Kiribati. Kiribati is: an island country; Location: Southern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Pacific Ocean. South Pacific Oceania. Micronesia; Time zones: Line Islands – UTC+14; Phoenix Islands – UTC+13; Gilbert Islands – UTC+12; Extreme points of Kiribati High: unnamed location on Banaba 81 m (266 ft) Low: Pacific Ocean 0 m
The atolls and islands of the Gilbert Islands lie in an approximate north-to-south line. The northernmost island in the group, Makin, it is approximately 420 nautical miles (780 km) from southernmost, Arorae, as the crow flies.
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“as long as there is a sea and a navigator to listen to the talk of the sea, there are islands” Nikunau's history comprises oral accounts passed down through the generations, primarily from unimane to unimane (the elderly men of each family in each generation), and committed to writings by I-Matang (pale-skinned people of European descent) since the 19th century.