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Lagoon shoreline at Fanning Map from CIA Factbook. Tabuaeran, also known as Fanning Island, [1] is an atoll that is part of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean and part of the island nation of Kiribati. The land area is 33.73 square kilometres (13.02 square miles), and the population in 2015 was 2,315. [2]
Onotoa is a low lying atoll with a land area of 15.62 square kilometres (6.03 sq mi). It has 7 villages with Tabuarorae, an islet, located at the southernmost end of the island followed by Aiaki, Otoae, Temao, Buariki, Tanaeang and Tekawa at the northernmost end of the island.
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Line Islands has the greatest land area of any coral atoll in the world, at about 388 square kilometres (150 square miles). The atoll is about 150 km (93 mi) in perimeter, while the lagoon shoreline extends for over 48 km (30 mi). [31] The entire island is a Wildlife Sanctuary. [3]
The first whaler recorded to have visited one of them was the Coquette, which docked at Kiritimati (then called Christmas Island) in 1822. [4] In 1888, the United Kingdom was planning to lay the Pacific cable, and annexed the islands with a view to using Tabuaeran (then Fanning Island) as one of the relay stations for the cable. The cable was ...
Betania is a settlement located on Tabuaeran atoll, Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. [1] [2] Tereitaki is to the north; with Paelau (the administrative centre of the atoll) to the south. In the 2010 census 175 people were recorded as living in Betania. [1]
An island that is located where the ocean water temperatures are just sufficiently warm for upward reef growth to keep pace with the rate of subsidence is said to be at the Darwin Point. Islands in colder, more polar regions evolve toward seamounts or guyots ; warmer, more equatorial islands evolve toward atolls, for example Kure Atoll .
Tereitannano is a settlement located on Tabuaeran atoll, Kiribati. [1] Tenenebo is to the north; with Aramari to the south. In the 2010 census 168 people were recorded as living in Tereitannano.
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island , dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres (1,400,000 sq mi) straddling the equator , and bordering the International Date Line to the east.