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The lagoon is too salty to support marine life, but fish are abundant around the fringing reef and offshore waters. H.E. Maude, in his 1937 report: Colonization of the Phoenix Islands , indicated that visitors to the island refused to eat any fish caught off the reef because of ciguatera poisoning. [ 4 ]
Two species of marine turtle have been positively identified in Kiribati waters: [2] Green turtle (locally called te on) Hawksbill turtle (locally called te tabakea or te borauea) The following marine turtle species have also been reported to occur in Kiribati waters, but only through descriptions: [2] Loggerhead sea turtle (locally called te ...
There are no native non-marine mammals or amphibians. The sole passerine bird is the endemic bokikokiko ( Acrocephalus aequinoctialis ), a reed warbler found on Teraina, Tabuaeran, and Kiritimati. Kuhl's lorikeet ( Vini kuhlii ) is an endangered parrot found on Kiritimati and Teraina and on Rimatara in the Tubuai Islands to the southeast.
Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon. Nikumaroro is about 7.5 km (4.7 mi) long by 2.5 km (1.6 mi) wide.
A map of Kiribati Kiribati's Gilbert Islands. The total land area mass total 811 km 2 (313 sq mi). It includes three island groups - Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands. Most of the land on these islands is less than two metres above sea level. [2] Including the amount of water, the total water and land area is 2485 square miles.
Kiribati is the country with the third highest prevalence of smoking in the world, with 54–57% of the population reported as smokers. [174] Due to this and other "lifestyle diseases", such as type 2 diabetes, [175] there has been a drastic spike in amputations on the islands, doubling in a few years. [citation needed]
The only forest birds are the Pacific imperial pigeon (Ducula pacifica), a year-round resident, and the migratory Pacific long-tailed cuckoo (Urodynamis taitensis), which winters in the tropical Pacific and breeds in New Zealand during the spring and summer. There are no native non-marine mammals or amphibians.
The islands of Kiribati are dispersed over 3.5 million km 2 (1.4 million sq mi) of the Pacific Ocean and straddle the equator and the 180th meridian, extending into the eastern and western hemispheres, as well as the northern and southern hemispheres. [2] 21 of the 33 islands are inhabited. The groups of islands of Kiribati are: