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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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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Sustainable Development of Small Island Economies
Book by Hiroshi Kakazu; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Islands--Economic Conditions--Case Studies, Sustainable Development--Case Studies
...fish in American Samoa and copra in Kiribati and Tokelau, accounts for nearly all...New Hebrides Guam Tonga Kiribati Micro <25,000...931.8 2.9 51.3 24.0 29.6 Kiribati 20.8 11.6 81.0 90.0 99.9...
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The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World
Book by Victor Prescott, Clive Schofield; Martinus Nijhoff, 2005
Subjects: Economic Zones (Law Of The Sea), Territorial Waters
...baselines are the Bahamas, the Comoros, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Seychelles...China (PRC) Kenya South Africa Colombia Kiribati Spain (excluding Mediterranean coast...Finally, the least favoured states, such as Kiribati and East Timor are unable to draw any...
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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 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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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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Micronesia's Breadfruit Revolution and the Evolution of a Culture Area
Journal article by Glenn Petersen; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Micronesia (Nation)--History, Micronesia (Nation)--Political aspects, Social movements--Analysis, Social movements--History
...first occupied, the atolls--what are now Kiribati, the Marshalls, and some of the eastern...distributed, extending in some cases from Kiribati to Pohnpei and from Kosrae to the Marianas...everywhere; in some areas, e.g. Belau and Kiribati, they are the focus of much of womens...
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Reconfigurations of Place and Ethnicity: Positionings, Performances and Politics of Relocated Banabans in Fiji
Journal article by Wolfgang Kempf, Elfriede Hermann; Oceania, Vol. 75, 2005
Subjects: Ethnic groups--Political aspects, Ethnic groups--Social aspects, Fiji--Cultural policy, Fiji--Political aspects, Indigenous peoples-government relations
...Banabans--to the newly set-up state of Kiribati. As a result of massive pressure from...March 1998). <p Banaba--now part of Kiribati--remains the identity-conferring place...more strongly against the Gilbertese/I-Kiribati. This offensive, designed to demonstrate...
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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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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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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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The Y2K Problem: Social Chaos or Social Transformation?
Magazine article by John L. Petersen, Margaret Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers; The Futurist, Vol. 32, October 1998
Subjects: Social change--International aspects, Year 2000 transition (Computers)--Forecasts
...rise over human civilization in the independent republic of Kiribati, a group of some 30 low-lying coral islands in the Pacific...International Date Line, halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Kiribatis 81,000 Micronesians may observe nothing different about this...
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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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