TARAWA

təräˈwə, tărˈəwä, atoll (1990 pop. 28,802), capital of Kiribati, central Pacific, previously capital of the former British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The administrative center of the atoll is Bairiki island. Betio island, the chief commercial center of country, is a port of entry through which copra and pearl shell exported. Tarawa is the site of a teacher's training college and a marine training school, as well as an international airport. The population is mainly Micronesian.

During World War II the colony headquarters were moved there from Banaba (formerly Ocean Island). Tarawa was occupied by the Japanese (1941–43) and fell to U.S. marines after a bloody battle. In the early 1990s the southern part of the capital, particularly Betio, had one of the highest population densities in the world, leading the government to resettle residents on less crowded islands.

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books on: Tarawa  - 318 results

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The Battle for Tarawa
Book by James R. Stockman; Historical Section, Division of Public Information, U.S. Marine Corps, 1947
Subjects: Tarawa, Battle Of, 1943
THE BATTLE FOR TARAWA Capt. James R. Stockman, U S M C...U. S. MARINE CORPS. 1947 Foreword TARAWA was the first in a series of amphibious...Marine Division landed on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll on 20 November 1943, twenty years...
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Mantle of Heroism: Tarawa and the Struggle for the Gilberts, November 1943
Book by Michael B. Graham; Presidio Press, 1993
...HEROISM -ii- MANTLE OF HEROISM Tarawa and the Struggle for the Gilberts, November...Michael B., 1961- Mantle of Heroism : Tarawa and the battle for the Gilberts / Michael...ISBN 0-89141-652-8 paperback 1. Tarawa, Battle of, 1943. 2. World War, 1939-1945...
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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
...five Central Pacific atolls -- Makin, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Majuro, and Eniwetok. It...IX. THE CAPTURE OF TARAWA 127...147 Tarawa Is Secured 150...
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Hit the Beach! Your Marine Corps in Action
Book by William P. McCahill; W. H. Wise, 1948
Subjects: United States--Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945--Amphibious Operations, World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Ocean
...Corps. 45 TARAWA by Lieutenant General Julian C. Smith...Commanding General, Second Marine Division at Tarawa, World War II 107...BATTLE FOR TARAWA " 92...
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200,000 Miles aboard the Destroyer Cotten
Book by C. Snelling Robinson; Kent State University Press, 2000
Subjects: Cotten (Destroyer), Robinson, C. Snelling--(Charles Snelling)--1922-, Sailors--United States--Biography, United States--Navy--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...Harbor and the Pacific Fleet 14 4 Tarawa: Operation Galvanic 19 5 Independent...Track of Cotten from Pearl Harbor to Tarawa 25 Attacks on Japanese islands made...acclimated to being aboard the Cotten. 4 Tarawa: Operation Galvanic During the...
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journal articles on: Tarawa  - 26 results

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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
...nearshore fisheries practices on South Tarawa and analyze the impact on health and nutrition...them; determine the extent to which South Tarawa residents depended on imported food; find...individual circumstances. Even on urban South Tarawa, the traditional domain remains strong...
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The Creation of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) in Pintupi/Kukatja Dreamings
Journal article by Lloyd D. Graham; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2003, 2003
Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Research
...story given by Pintupi artist Charlie Tarawa. He tells how a large group of young women...for Dreaming at Lake Mackay, by Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi (1974). KALCC 1996 Yirra...Kangaroo Dreaming, by Charlie Tararu (Tarawa) Tjungurrayi (1972). Page 278b: Information...
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The Challenge to Environmentalism
Journal article by Bill Mckibben; Daedalus, Vol. 137, 2008
Subjects: Environmental movement--Economic aspects, Environmental movement--Social aspects, Environmental sustainability, Environmentalism--Economic aspects, Environmentalism--Social aspects
...of natural extension of statecraft--had survived a great deal of scaling up, from Agincourt to Antietam, from Thermopylae to Tarawa. But the explosion of the first nuclear weapon, though in some sense just a much larger version of things wed been doing for...
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Incremental Agroforestry: Enriching Pacific Landscapes
Journal article by William C Clarke, Randolph R Thaman; The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 9, 1997
Subjects: Oceania
...in Kiribati 1990-1992 . Biken ibeu, Tarawa: Division of Agriculture, Ministry of...of the Coconut Resource of Kiribati . Tarawa: Minis try of Natural Resources Development...Crop Research in Kiribati, 1982-1984 . Tarawa: Ministry of Natural Resources Development...
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Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of "The South Pacific"
Journal article by Greg Fry; The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 9, 1997
Subjects: Oceania
...area and generalizing from that: South Tarawa for over- crowding, the Marshall Islands...successful in attracting such investment to Tarawa, which would be very difficult, the impact...Pacific History Conference held on South Tarawa in July 1994 for their comments on an...
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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
...OUR ALUMINUM SKIFF plows through Tarawa Lagoons emerald waters, throwing up a...late to save mid-Pacific islands like Tarawa," says climate authority Irving Mintzer...International Wildlife. Tebua lies off Tarawa Atoll on the extreme western edge of the...
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Flying False Flags: Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers Is Another Attempt to Rewrite History. It Remakes American Sacrifice and Patriotism during WWII into Vulgar Excess and Ignorance
Magazine article by Michael E. Telzrow; The New American, Vol. 22, November 27, 2006
Subjects: Flags of Our Fathers (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews
...Despite suicidal resistance by the Japanese, Tarawa had fallen to American forces in November...the successful amphibious assaults on Tarawa and Kwajalein, Admiral Nimitz ordered...twice as many men as they had lost at Tarawa. Uncommon Valor at Iwo The days of taking...
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Overseas Ballots Don't Reach Home
Magazine article by Catherine Edwards; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, January 8, 2001
Subjects: Employment abroad--Civil rights, Military personnel--Civil rights, Voting--Abstention
...sergeant in the Marine Corps onboard the USS Tarawa, an amphibious-assault ship, complained...the ballot come back to me." The USS Tarawa usually is deployed in the Pacific and...especially if you are on board a ship like the Tarawa ... thus disenfranchising thousands of...
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Scrimmaging on the Gridiron and on the Political Front
Magazine article by Gerald R. Ford; Ebony, Vol. 51, November 1995
Subjects: African Americans--Race relations, Ex-presidents--Personal narratives, Race relations--Personal narratives
...carrier, the USS Monterey (CVL26). Our ship had fought in the island-hopping operations under Admirals Halsey and Mischner from Tarawa to the Battle of the Philippines. Because of the integration policies implemented by the Roosevelt White House, the Monterey...
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The Forgotten Heroes of a Greater Generation
Magazine article by Denis Brasket; The Humanist, Vol. 65, July 2005
Subjects: Anti-fascist movements, Military personnel, Population, United States (World War II), Veterans, Volunteers, World War II, 1939-1945
...in evaluating those millions. For example, consider the men whose duty required them to wade ashore under fire at Normandy or Tarawa. Perhaps they deserve more praise and honor than those who merely staffed desks at the Pentagon or guarded Japanese-Americans...
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Fight for Tarawa Testifies to Marines' Tenacity
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 10, 2004
Fight for Tarawa Testifies to Marines Tenacity. Tarawa. To those Americans who fought on this desolate Pacific...Gilbert Islands during World War II, it was known as "Bloody Tarawa." The following account is mostly from "Across the Reef...
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Stiffing the Troops Serving Overseas; Team Gore Celebrates a Ballot Victory
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 8, 2001
...the night duty officer aboard the USS Tarawa, an amphibious assault ship sent to help...disoriented when he heard his wifes voice. The Tarawa was 8,000 miles from Jacksonville, and...Western Pacific and Indian Ocean aboard the Tarawa, which he calls "40,000 tons of twisted...
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WWII Vet Presses for Cleanup of Pacific Atoll Battleground; A Beach Where Hundreds of Marines Died Is Now Desecrated by Garbage
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 4, 2007
Subjects: Soldiers
...Marines to the central Pacific atoll of Tarawa during one of the bloodiest battles of...ferried troops from transport ships to Tarawas shore on Nov. 20, 1943. Three days of...Cooper is engaged in a new battle of Tarawa. That same hallowed beach is now strewn...
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Surviving WW II Dedication of Memorial in U.S. Capital Will Give Our War Veterans a Special Place of Honor, Remembrance
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 23, 2004
...action in World War II - at Guadacanal Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian; battles that have gone...months. Then he went back into combat at Tarawa Island, located in the Gilbert Islands...funerals every day," Kulsea said. After Tarawa, he was sent to Hawaii, spent almost six...
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Jason Pedals on around World with New Partner
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 28, 2000
...wooden pedal boat Moksha is currently on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, where he landed...next ocean leg - the 1,200 miles from Tarawa to the Solomon Islands. Jason, 31, from...pedalled solo the next 2,200 miles to Tarawa in 73 days, landing last July. Steve had...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tarawa  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Tarawa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARAWA t ra w , tar wa, atoll (1990 pop. 28,802), capital...of entry through which copra and pearl shell exported. Tarawa is the site of a teachers training college and a marine...were moved there from Banaba (formerly Ocean Island). Tarawa was occupied by the Japanese (1941 43) and fell to U.S...
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Gilbert Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...that form the Republic of Kiribati . The group includes Tarawa , Butaritari , Makin, Little Makin, Marakei, Abaiang, Maiana...the islands a protectorate in 1892 and a colony in 1915 16. Tarawa, Butaritari, Abaiang, Marakei, and Abemama were occupied by...
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Kiribati
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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. English is the official language, and Kiribati, a Micronesian language...
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Amphibious Warfare
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...artillery could come into action. By use of this method the Allies were able to invade heavily defended Pacific islands such as Tarawa (1943), Saipan (1944), Iwo Jima (1945), and Okinawa (1945). In Europe the Allies made landings on Sicily (1943) and Italy (1943...


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