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By that time, 33 percent of the nation's residents had been fully vaccinated against infection. In January 2022, a group of Kiribati citizens who had been living and travelling abroad as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the pandemic began returned to Kiribati on a chartered plane. Despite negative tests for ...
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.
In the history of Kiribati, the islands which now form the Republic of Kiribati have been inhabited for at least seven hundred years, and possibly much longer. The initial Micronesian population, which remains the overwhelming majority today, was visited by Polynesian and Melanesian invaders before the first European sailors "discovered" the ...
In 2008, the government of Kiribati designated the islands the "Phoenix Islands Protected Area", which was at the time the world's largest marine protected area. Collaborations between Kiribati, the New England Aquarium , and Conservation International have allowed scientific expeditions to explore the Phoenix Islands to quantify the ocean's ...
Defunct organisations based in Kiribati (2 C) E. Historical events in Kiribati (7 C) F. Former populated places in Kiribati (1 C, 6 P) G. Gilbert and Ellice Islands ...
This page lists the individual Kiribati year pages. It only references years after 1979, when the country gained independence. Twenty-first century. 2020s
Although it lies 2,460 km (1,530 mi) east of the 180th meridian, the Republic of Kiribati realigned the International Date Line in 1995, placing Kiritimati to the west of the dateline. Nuclear tests were conducted on and around Kiritimati by the United Kingdom in the late 1950s, and by the United States in 1962 .
In 1967, the Marine Training Centre was created by Hamburg Süd. John Hilary Smith , governor of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands created the Betio Town Council in 1972. Since the 1970s, the islet has become a major centre of economic activity in Kiribati, and a causeway to Bairiki was constructed in the early 1980s, leading to an increase in ...