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39: 113: 83: 53: 307: 295: 277: 250: 1453: 214: 1527: 2092: 120: 90: 60: 1511:, Caroline Island was officially renamed Millennium Island. Although the island is uninhabited, a special celebration was held there to mark the occasion. It featured performances by native Kiribati entertainers and was attended by Kiribati's President Tito. Over 70 Kiribati singers and dancers travelled to Millennium Island from the capital, 504: 519:
Most 18th-century visitors to these isles overlooked these telltale signs of former Polynesian settlement. This included Captain Cook, who landed on Christmas Island (now called Kiritimati) in 1777, as well as Captain Fanning, who visited Teraina (Washington Island) and Tabuaeran (Fanning Atoll) in
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platforms and/or village complexes on several of the islands, including the Kiritimati and Tabuaeran atolls, Teraina Island, Malden, Millennium Atoll and Flint Island. These remains are dateable as far back as the 14th century, and show that the inhabitants of the Line Islands were more than just
549:. In 1919, they annexed Christmas Island to the same colony. The Line Islands occasionally featured briefly in the biennial reports furnished by the Colony's resident commissioner to the Colonial Office and Parliament in London (see, for example, the reports submitted in 1966 and 1967). 568:
Geographically, the Line Islands is divided into three subgroups: the Northern, Central, and Southern Line Islands (however, the Central Line Islands are sometimes grouped with the Southern Line Islands). The table below lists the islands from north to south.
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more than 1,000 km (620 mi) to the east within Kiribati, which placed all of Kiribati on the Asian or western side of the date line, despite the fact that Millennium Island's longitude of 150 degrees west corresponds to
542:, 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 laid and was operational between 1902 and 1963 (except for a short period in 1914). 395:. The Line Islands, all of which were formed by volcanic activity, are one of the longest island chains in the world, stretching 2,350 km (1,460 mi) from northwest to southeast. One of them, 1565:"International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography, Volume 15 Number 1, 2021, Determining the Areas and Geographical Centers of Pacific Ocean and its Northern and Southern Halves, pp 25-31, Arjun Tan" 1438:
The lagoon areas marked with an asterisk are included in the land areas of the previous column because, unlike typical lagoons in atolls, they are inland waters completely sealed off from the sea.
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ships were regular visitors to the islands. They came in search of water, wood and provisions. The first whaler recorded to have visited one of them was the
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of 1856, which allowed for very wide-ranging territorial claims. It relinquished these claims only in 1979, when it entered into the
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Order in Council under the Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895, Annexing Christmas Island to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, 1919.
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Where the whalers went: an index to the Pacific ports and islands by American whalers (and some other ships) in the 19th century
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. (1969). Report for the Years 1966 and 1967. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
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Order in Council Annexing the Ocean, Fanning, and Washington islands to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, 1916.
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In 1916, the British annexed Fanning and Washington islands, making them part of the British colony of the
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passes through the Line Islands. The ones that are parts of Kiribati are in the world's farthest forward
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for the Line Islands, to take effect from 31 December 1994. This adjustment effectively moved the
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Results of the First Joint US-USSR Central Pacific Expedition (BERPAC): Autum[n] 1988
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In 1999, to further capitalise upon the massive public interest in celebrations marking
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Following a 1995 time zone realignment, Millennium Island, then Caroline Island, (
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have a permanent population. Besides the 11 confirmed atolls and islands,
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Chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean
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The move was the fulfilment of a campaign promise by Kiribati President
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The United States contested the British annexations, based on the U.S.
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On 23 December 1994, the Republic of Kiribati announced a change of
465:. The time of day in these atolls is 24 hours ahead of the state of 1878:
Office of Te Beretitent – Republic of Kiribati Island Report Series
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Office of Te Beretitent – Republic of Kiribati Island Report Series
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Office of Te Beretitent – Republic of Kiribati Island Report Series
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National Geographic – Southern Line Islands Expedition, 2009
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are the islands' main export products (along with seaweed).
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is shown on some maps, but its existence is doubted.
1969:"Tiny Island's Date-Line Jog in Race for Millennium" 1522: 563: 538:
In 1888, the United Kingdom was planning to lay the
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Archaeologists have identified the remains of coral
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Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act
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Line Islands is located in Kiribati
Line Islands is located in Oceania
Line Islands is located in Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
1°42′N 157°12′W / 1.7°N 157.2°W / 1.7; -157.2
Kiribati
Kiritimati
United States
Territories
Incorporated
Palmyra Atoll
Unincorporated
Jarvis Island
Kingman Reef
Gilbertese
atolls
lagoons
Vostok
Jarvis
coral
islands
reef
Hawaiian Islands
Kiribati
Jarvis Island
Kingman Reef
Palmyra Atoll
territories of the United States
United States Minor Outlying Islands

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