KIRIBATI

kĭrˌĭbăsˈ, officially Republic of Kiribati (1995 est. pop. 79,000), 342 sq mi (886 sq km), consisting of 33 islands scattered across 2,400 mi (3,860 km) of the Pacific Ocean near the equator. It includes 8 of the 11 Line Islands, including Kiritimati (formerly Christmas Island), as well as the Gilbert and Phoenix groups and Banaba (formerly Ocean Island). Tarawa is the capital. The population is nearly all Micronesian, with about 30% concentrated on Tarawa. Languages spoken are English (official) and Gilbertese. Inhabitants are about half Roman Catholic and 45% Protestant. Fishing and the growing of taro and bananas form the basis of the mainly subsistence economy. Fish and copra became the chief exports after the mining of Banaba's once thick phosphate deposits ended in 1979. A member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the nation is a republic with a president, a cabinet, and a unicameral legislature.

The islands were administered (1892–1916) with the Ellice Islands as a British protectorate that became (1916) the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony. They gained self-rule in 1971, and, after the Ellice Islands gained (1978) independence as Tuvalu, the remaining islands were granted independence (1979) as Kiribati. U.S. claims to several islands, including Kanton (formerly Canton) and Enderbury, were abandoned in 1979. Overcrowding has been a problem, and in 1988 it was announced that 4,700 residents of the main island group would be resettled onto less populated islands. In 1994 Teburovo Tito was elected president. In 1995, Kiribati moved the international date line to the eastern border of the sprawling island nation so that it would no longer be divided by the date line. Tito was reelected in 1998 and 2003, but in Mar., 2003, he was removed from office by a no-confidence vote, and replaced by a Council of State. Anote Tong was elected to succeed Tito in July.

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Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls
Book by Philip A. Crowl, Edmund G. Love; Office of The Chief of Military History United States Army, 1955
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Kiribati, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Marshall Islands
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Statistical Handbook on Poverty in the Developing World
Book by Chandrika Kaul, Valerie Tomaselli-Moschovitis; Oryx Press, 1999
Subjects: Poverty--Developing Countries--Statistics
...Kenya 569140 219745 45 Kiribati 730 282 170 Kuwait...Kazakhstan 2670730 1031169 9 Kiribati 730 282 170 Kuwait 17820...Kenya 28,337,071 34,773,605 37 Kiribati 83,976 98,764 179 Kuwait 1...
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Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards Sustainable Development
Book by John Connell, John Lea; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Cities And Towns--Pacific Area--Growth, Sustainable Development--Pacific Area, Urbanization--Pacific Area
...Guinea 76 5.1 South Tarawa, Kiribati 119 Tables 1.1 Geographic...Kwajalein Atoll Local Government KLIS Kiribati Land Information System KMHARD Kiribati Ministry of Home Affairs and Rural Development...
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Ecotourism Development in the Pacific Islands
Book by Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; United Nations, 2003
Subjects: Ecotourism--Islands Of The Pacific
...of Micronesia 8 C Fiji 12 D Kiribati 16 E Niue 20 F Papua New...economy and tourism industry 9 2 Kiribati: Six policy objectives of the National...tourism products for Fiji. i. D. Kiribati4 1. Overview of the economic impact...
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Micronesian Religion and Lore: A Guide to Sources, 1526-1990
Book by Douglas Haynes, William L. Wuerch, G. E. Gorman; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Folklore--Micronesia--Bibliography, Micronesia--Religion--Bibliography
...such studies draw their boundary, to Kiribati and Nauru. This bibliography on Micronesian...missionary Sabatier item 320 on Kiribati, published after this period, might be...worship seems to have been practiced. In Kiribati and in the Marianas the skulls of ancestors...
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Self-Reliance in Kiribati: Contrasting Views of Agricultural and Fisheries Production
Journal article by Frank R. Thomas; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 168, 2002
Subjects: Agriculture--Kiribati, Economic development--Kiribati, Fisheries--Kiribati, Kiribati--Natural resources, States, Small--Economic aspects
Self-reliance in Kiribati: contrasting views of agricultural...Micro states, such as the Republic of Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) in the...the politically independent states of Kiribati and neighbouring Tuvalu, for instance...
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The Right to Relocation: Disappearing Island Nations and Common Ownership of the Earth
Journal article by Mathias Risse; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 23, 2009
Subjects: Collective consumption--Analysis, Egalitarianism--Analysis, Islands--Environmental aspects, Islands--Social aspects, Kiribati--Environmental aspects, Kiribati--Social aspects, Land--Social aspects
...Mathias Risse Straddling the equator, Kiribati consists of thirty-three coral atolls...Before might well be found there since Kiribati also straddles the international date...birthrate of four children per woman, Kiribatis existence is in jeopardy. The islands...
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The Right to Relocation: Disappearing Island Nations and Common Ownership of the Earth
Journal article by Mathias Risse; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 23, 2009
Subjects: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press
...Mathias Risse Straddling the equator, Kiribati consists of thirty- three coral atolls...Before might well be found there since Kiribati also straddles the international date...birthrate of four children per woman, Kiribatis existence is in jeopardy. The islands...
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Numeral Classifiers and Counting Systems in Polynesian and Micronesian Languages: Common Roots and Cultural Adaptations
Journal article by Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Numeration systems--Origin, Numeration systems--Research, Numeration--Origin, Numeration--Research
...instance, in Chuukese (Benton 1968) or Kiribati (Harrison and Jackson 1984:62), but only...only in Proto-Chuukic and probably in Kiribati (Harrison and Jackson 1984:69). For Proto-Polynesian...more than one hundred classifiers in Kiribati or Chuukese (Harrison and Jackson 1984...
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The Potential for Soviet Penetration of the South Pacific Islands: an Assessment
Journal article by Robert C. Kiste, R. A. Herr; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 18, 1986
Subjects: Asia
...public service strikes in recent years in Kiribati, Western Samoa, and the Solomon Islands...capacity (Solomons and Vanuatu). The rest (Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, and Western Samoa...of friendship with New Zealand, and Kiribati and Tuvalu have such . an arrangement...
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AWASH IN A RISING SEA - How Global Warming Is Overwhelming the Islands of the Tropical Pacific
Magazine article by Curtis A. Moore; International Wildlife, January 2002
Subjects: Global warming--Environmental aspects, Kiribati--Environmental aspects, Sea level--Environmental aspects, Tarawa Atoll--Environmental aspects
...extreme western edge of the nation of Kiribati (KEER-ri-bas), a group of islands stretching...nearly the width of the United States. Kiribati is so low--three feet or less above sea...ocean," according to its people, the I- Kiribati. Despite its immense size, Kiribati...
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Dragon in Paradise: China's Rising Star in Oceania
Magazine article by John Henderson, Benjamin Reilly; The National Interest, Summer 2003
Subjects: China--Portrayals, depictions, etc., United Nations
...Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Kiribati and East Timor. It is now accepted routine...states originally under British influence, Kiribati and Nauru, have in more recent times...Samoa, the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati. In most cases the "passports" do not...
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Small Islands: Awash in a Sea of Troubles
Magazine article by Anjali Acharya; World Watch, Vol. 8, November 1995
Subjects: Archipelagoes--Environmental aspects, Caribbean Area--Environmental aspects, Environmental protection--Evaluation, Pacific States--Environmental aspects
...many thousands of times their land area. Kiribati, in the equatorial Pacific, for example...the Federated States of Micronesia, and Kiribati - the access fees are a major source...to a U.N. report published last year, Kiribati was once offered a full national television...
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Island Sovereignty
Magazine article by Ian S. Mcintosh; Whole Earth, Fall 2000
Subjects: Imperialism--International aspects, Islands of the Pacific--Politics and government, Pacific Islands (Trust Territory)--Politics and government, Sovereignty--Analysis
...the tourism industry? The dawning of the new millennium at Kiribati and Fiji received blanket television coverage, but the rise...Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Kiribati--achieved independence. For many other Pacific islands, however...
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The GAY Map of the Pacific
Magazine article by Lee Wallace; The Advocate, November 6, 2007
Subjects: Oceania--Description and travel
...broken down into three main ethnic groupings: Polynesia (from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island), Micronesia (from Palau to Kiribati), and Melanesia (from the island of New Guinea to Fiji). The study of the open character of Pacific sexualities, in particular...
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Millennium Celebrations: Tropical Isle First to Greet New Century
Newspaper article by Kathy Gannon; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2000
Subjects: Kiribati
...gathered on Millennium Island in the Kiribati chain claimed the honour of being the...in their Micronesian language, called Kiribati. "Let us put aside all divisions - let...Right after midnight, the president of Kiribati, Teberuro Tito, took a burning torch...
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Millennium Wars; Five Spots Battle It out for the Right to See 2000 First
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 2, 1999
...with both Teburoru Tito, president of Kiribati, and Ken and Eva Lanauze. They are determined...too. The neighbouring archipelago of Kiribati has set its clocks 14 HOURS ahead of...British colony of the Gilbert Islands, Kiribati used to straddle the dateline - until...
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BARD OF PARADISE; Dan Gets Job as Poet Laureate of Desert Isle
Newspaper article by Stephen White; The Mirror (London, England), November 1, 1996
...beach in which he can seek the muse on Kiribati in the South Pacific. But he has to...place for me," Danny penned a verse in Kiribatis praise. Then he posted it off proposing...be the best place for inspiration." Kiribati - whose 80,000 population harvest the...
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A Poet in Paradise; Lancashire Lad to Be Betjeman of the South Pacific
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 1, 1996
...competition. But in the sun-kissed Kiribati Isles - where the simple things in life...21-year old student the plum post of Kiribatis poet laureate. Mr Wilson, a student...I wrote to the Government of the Kiribati Isles - not knowing even whether there...
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WELCOME TO 2000: NEW YEAR KNEES-UP: 24-Hour Carnival around the Globe
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 1, 2000
...Globe. THEY were celebrating in the South Seas nation of Kiribati 14 hours before Big Ben chimed the New Year in Britain. Grass...just begun in Los Angeles and San Francisco. An hour after Kiribati midnight arrived in New Zealand, where thousands gathered to...
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Kiribati
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KIRIBATI kir ibas , officially Republic of Kiribati (2005 est. pop. 103,000), 342 sq mi (886 sq km), consisting...concentrated on Tarawa. English is the official language, and Kiribati, a Micronesian language, is also spoken. Some 50% of the...
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Washington Island , Former Name of Teraina, Kiribati
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WASHINGTON ISLAND , former name of Teraina, Kiribati see Teraina . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Tabuaeran
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati . Visited by the American explorer...it gained independence as part of Kiribati in 1979. Copra is the only export. Residents of overcrowded islands in Kiribati have been resettled on Tabuaeran...
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Kanton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...largest of the Phoenix Islands , which comprise part of Kiribati , c.2,000 mi (3,220 km) SE of Honolulu, Hawaii. Annexed by...Phoenix Islands, became independent as part of the Republic of Kiribati. Kanton is also known as Abariringa...
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Teraina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pacific, one of the Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati . Visited by the American explorer Edmund Fanning in 1798...Washington Island, the atolls name was changed to Teraina after Kiribati gained independence in 1979. Copra is the major export...
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