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Christmas Island National Park is a national park occupying most of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia. [1] The park is home to many species of animal and plant life, including the eponymous Christmas Island red crab, whose annual migration sees around 100 million crabs move to the sea to spawn.
Christmas Island, 350 km southwest of the island of Java, is mostly forested. Of its 135 km2 total area, 85 km2 is protected by the Christmas Island National Park. The island is a limestone cover of an ancient submerged volcano, with eroded terraces and an interior plateau. [1]
Phoenix Islands Protected Area 397,447 km 2 (153,455 sq mi), is a World Heritage Site (natural or mixed). Kiritimati Atoll (Christmas Island); 523.7 km 2 (202.2 sq mi), is a Marine Protected Area - Multiple Use Conservation Area, which includes: Cook Islet Closed Area (Kiritimati WS), 22 km 2 (8.5 sq mi), is a Bird Reserve.
It’s Christmas every day on Christmas Island, the 52-square-mile jungle paradise that sits in the Indian Ocean about a 3.5-hour plane flight northwest of Perth, Australia. Its thriving reefs and ...
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.
Panther Island is a planned waterfront district that will be created by a 1.5-mile channel being built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The channel will connect two sections of the Trinity ...
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/.
Christmas Island. There are so many holiday movies out there, it's a wonder the creative teams behind them haven't run out of ideas. While viewers know the two leads will fall for each other in ...