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Te Umanibong (also Te Umwanibong [1]) or the Kiribati Cultural Museum, or Kiribati Museum and Cultural Centre, is a museum in Bikenibeu on the atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati. It displays artefacts and other items of cultural and historic significance. [2]
Anote's Ark is a 2018 Canadian documentary film directed by Matthieu Rytz. [1] Profiling the impact of climate change on the island nation of Kiribati, which will be one of the first nations on earth to entirely disappear underwater in the event of a sustained sea level rise, the film tells the stories of the nation's former president Anote Tong, who intensely lobbied the international ...
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North Tabiteuea (in Gilbertese, Tabiteuea Meang) has a land area of 26 km 2 (10 sq mi) and a population of 3,955 as of 2015, distributed among twelve villages (capital Utiroa) [2] South Tabiteuea ( Tabiteuea Maiaki ) has a land area of 12 km 2 (4.6 sq mi) and a population of 1,306, distributed among six villages (capital Buariki ).
Kiribati's population of 115,000 is scattered among 33 atolls over 3.5 million sq km (1.3 million sq miles) of ocean, and it has been a base for both U.S. and Chinese space tracking stations at ...
Nonouti is an atoll and district of Kiribati.The atoll is located in the Southern Gilbert Islands, 38 km north of Tabiteuea, and 250 km south of Tarawa.The atoll is the third largest in the Gilbert Islands and is the island where the Roman Catholic religion was first established in Kiribati, in 1888.
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, with more than half living on Tarawa ...
The settlement had been dealing with seawater inundation and coastal instability since the 1970s, [2] and is being abandoned. [3] A report by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission determined that natural erosion was the primary factor, as the village was located close to the site of a blocked ocean/lagoon channel, [ 4 ] The Kiribati ...