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	Banaba
		Banaba is west of the Gilbert Group and just south of the equator.
		Banaba is an ecological curiosity - see how mining has trashed a unique island and traditional culture - but because facilities are limited you will need to get approval from the island council before you arrive.
		The Radio Station on Ocean Island was the parent station for the Gilbert Islands Coastwatching station and it was believed that the main purpose of the attack had been to silence this Radio Station.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/banaba.html (2369 words)

	Banaba Island Information
		Banaba Island (also Ocean Island), an island in the Pacific Ocean, lies west of the Gilbert Island chain and east of Nauru.
		On 19 December 2005, Teitirake Corrie, the Rabi Island Council's representative to the Parliament of Kiribati, said that the Rabi Council was considering giving the right to remine Banaba Island to the government of Fiji.
		One reason given for the maintenance of a community on Banaba, at a monthly cost of F$12,000, is that if the island were to become uninhabited, the Kiribati government might take over the administration of the island, and integrate it with the rest of the country.
	www.bookrags.com /Banaba_Island (625 words)

	Banaba Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banaba Island (also Ocean Island), an island in the Pacific Ocean, lies west of the Gilbert Island chain and east of Nauru.
		On 19 December 2005, Teitirake Corrie, the Rabi Island Council's representative to the Parliament of Kiribati, said that the Rabi Council was considering giving the right to remine Banaba Island to the government of Fiji.
		One reason given for the maintenance of a community on Banaba, at a monthly cost of F$12,000, is that if the island were to become uninhabited, the Kiribati government might take over the administration of the island, and integrate it with the rest of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banaba_Island (674 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Banaba (Ocean Island), about 450 km to the west of the main Gilbert Group, is a raised coral island, 6.5 sq.km in area and with a maximum elevation of 87 m.
		Banaba, the southern Gilberts and the Phoenix Islands are subject to periodic droughts when as little as 200 mm of rain may fall in one year.
		The isolated stands of mangroves in the Gilbert Islands and the distinctive saline and brackish lagoons in the Line and Phoenix Islands are of conservation interest, as are the freshwater habitats of Teraina (Washington).
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/pacific/wetlands/kir_int.htm (3061 words)

	Banaba - Agriculture on Rabi Island - Report by Carole Wright
		Carolyn spent 3 weeks on Rabi Island over the recent Christmas School holidays when she went to the island at the Society's request to look at ways in which Agriculture projects could be developed to assist the Community in becoming more self sufficient.
		Prior to the Banabans settlement on Rabi in 1945 the island was used as a copra plantation by the famous Lever Brothers group of companies.
		Rabi Island is fortunate to have a Department of Agriculture station on the island and a variety of crops is being trialed.
	www.banaban.info /agri.htm (1247 words)

	Island Anthology
		Small islands differ in their characteristics.....There are high islands derived from volcanoes, or from aggregations of continental rocks, or from the elevation of reef rock.
		Although all are "small" (islands or states), the experience of their land formations, whether by visitors or indigenous inhabitants, is vastly different--a difference which it is not (yet) possible to discern from the present categories.
		Islands are candles, to be snuffed out one by one only for those island-living species which are territorially bound and unable either to adapt to, resist or retire in the face of innovation.
	www.islandvulnerability.org /anthology.html (16133 words)

	Banabas, discarded jewel of the Pacific - Ocean Defenders - the weblog
		The island is constructed of coral pillars, and between these pillars, are the valuable phosphates.
		The island was bombed by the Japanese at the same time as Pearl Harbour - 8th Dec.1942 - and subsequently invaded by them in 1942.
		Banabas is said to be the highest island in the Gilbert group - a staggering 800 feet.
	weblog.greenpeace.org /oceandefenders/archive/2006/10/banabas_discarded_jewel_o.html (744 words)

	Pacific Magazine: KIRIBATI: Concerned With Moves By China To Meet With Rabi Representatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		This desire was again expressed by island leaders during celebrations last December to mark their 60th year of arrival in Fiji.
		Mr Corrie said people were quickly forgetting that Banaba used to be an autonomous island and it was not until 1916 that it became annexed by Kiribati.
		“Banaba is listed in schedule 2 of the constitution as one of the 33 islands that comprise the territory of the Republic of Kiribati,” explains Teweiariki Teaero, an I-Kiribati national teaching at the University of the South Pacific.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=20628 (1006 words)

	Expeditions
		Banaba Island, formerly known as Ocean Island, had not been activated by amateur radio when Jim, VK9NS and Bob, KN6J went there in May 1989.
		Banaba had been extensively mined for phosphate for many years with the result that both the local population and the Island itself suffered in the process.
		They provided two "Island get-togethers," one organised by the Protestant Church and the other by the Catholic Church, where Jim and Bob were made welcome as guests of honour.There was also time to sightsee the phosphate processing site.
	www.hidxa.nlk.nf /ExpeditionsT33JS.htm (397 words)

	Kiribati Travel Tips
		Because Banaba was eventually ruined (the topsoil was spread over fields in Australia and New Zealand), Banabans were moved at the end of WWII to Rabi Island in Fiji, where the main community still resides.
		After Banaba was reoccupied, the Japanese were found to have massacred all but one man of the imported labour force on receiving news of the end of the war.
		In an effort to attract tourism, one of the islands was renamed Millennium Island and vied with the Chatham Islands for the honour of being the first to greet the first dawn of the new millennium.
	www.southtravels.com /pacific/kiribati/traveltips.html (5241 words)

	World InfoZone - Kiribati Facts
		The islands of Kiribati span a vast area in the Pacific Ocean and lie across the Equator and the International Date Line.
		The highest point on Kiribati is on the island of Banaba (81 m).
		Banaba is one of three large phosphate rock islands in the Pacific.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Kiribati (323 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Its nearest neighbour is Banaba (Ocean) Island, 306 km to the east in the Republic of Kiribati.
		There is no true reef and no lagoon; rather, the island is surrounded by an intertidal reef platform, some 150-200 m wide, cut into the original limestone of the island and typified by the presence of numerous emergent coral pinnacles.
		The Department of Island Development and Industry is the government body concerned with the island's natural resources, and has been involved with the development of fish farming in the lagoons and ponds.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wetlands/nru_int.htm (1860 words)

	Banaba Extract -- Recommendations and Resources
		Banaba (Lagerstroemia speciosa) is a type of tree that grows in Thailand.
		Banaba is an island in the Pacific Ocean.
		Phosphate-mining (for fertiliser) from 1900 to 1979 stripped away a large portion of the island's surface.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/14/banaba-extract.html (1139 words)

	Charting the Pacific - Places
		One seat is reserved for the inhabitants of the island of Banaba, who actually live on Rabi Island in Fiji.
		The modest size of the islands, their remoteness and their dispersal over a large area of the Pacific ocean also contribute to a lack of economic development.
		Banaba and several islands in the Line group, which had been previously annexed, were incorporated the same year.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacific/places/country/kiribati.htm (556 words)

	Noonsite: Kiribati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The island is a sanctuary to millions of sea birds and access to the breeding areas is prohibited.
		Facilities the other islands are basic with few imported goods and a limited selection of locally produced fruit and vegetables, but there is plenty of fish everywhere.
		Most islands have an equatorial climate, while the islands to the extreme north and south of the group are tropical.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/Kiribati?rc=CountryProfile (544 words)

	Kiribati
		Their vigorous attempts to declare Banaba independent of Kiribati have proved unsuccessful, but the constitution reserves two seats for their representatives in Parliament (one from Banaba and one from the Rabi Council), provides for an island council, and safeguards land rights.
		The present opposition consists largely of Catholics from the northern islands with their loyalties divided among several political parties which caucused under the Christian Democratic Party to complain about perceived Protestant southern island domination in government.
		Their departure was compensated for by the addition of the twin seats of Banaba and Rabi to the government side.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/kiribati.html (906 words)

	Banaba Press Release - Archived - Natalie Minnis
		The currents around the island are so strong that bathing is never a gentle experience - you’re constantly tugged to and fro, and if you swim at the wrong time or in the wrong place you could be cut to shreds on the sharp coral, or swept right away.
		Banaba’s famous coral pinnacles that mark the island’s gouged-out interior are no less razor-like than the reef.
		The seas around the island are often crowded with small fishing boats, and if you visit the interior, Topside, in the evening, you’ll probably pass quite few young men out hunting for noddy birds, with nets at the end of long metal poles.
	www.banaban.com /natalie.htm (1222 words)

	Wikinfo \| Kiribati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Republic of Kiribati is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
		Its name is pronounced /kiribas/ and is a Micronesian transliteration of the former English name for the main group of islands, the Gilbert Islands.
		Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kiribati (563 words)

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		Annexed by the British Crown in 1901, a Pacific Island community which thrived in isolation for centuries was marginalised to suit commercial interests before the entire population was permanently shifted to an island in the Fiji group - in order to satisfy the Empire's demands for phosphate.
		Within hours an illiterate man the New Zealand party mistook for King of the island had given thumbprint assent to an outrageous contract which signed away unlimited amounts of the island's newly-discovered phosphate reserves, in return for £50 a year, or the equivalent in goods, for a period of 999 years.
		The entire population was taken to Rabi (pronounced "Rambi"), an island in the Fiji group.
	www.banaba.co.uk (422 words)

	MDAG Case Study 8
		One candidate was the island of Banaba, part of the island nation of Kiribati and northeast of the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific.
		Phosphate mining, which was locally heavy on some Pacific islands in the late 1800's and first half of the 1900's, displaced the local inhabitants of Banaba and eventually disrupted roughly 90% of the surface area.
		However, Banaba is not suitable for our research at this time, because mining ended only about 20 years ago and the story of mining impacts on Banaba is mostly socioeconomic in nature.
	www.mdag.com /case_studies/cs9-98.html (1313 words)

	MINING ON BANABA
		Ocean Island lies 1 degree south of the equator and 250 miles west of the Gilberts (Kiribati).
		By race, language and tradition, the island was connected with the Gilberts despite its distant position.
		The islands are, as it were, made up of two elements: very closely packed coral rocks, settled there like pitted and irregularly shaped standing stones, and in between these, phosphate, which will sometimes come away at a few blows from a pick and sometimes can only be dislodged by explosives.
	www.janeresture.com /banaba/mining.htm (925 words)

	FAO Workshop - Data Collection for the Pacific Region - FRA WP 51
		All of the islands are atolls except for the island of Banaba (also known as Ocean Island) in the Gilberts.
		Rainfall is variable across the islands with drought years on the driest islands sometimes yielding as little as 200mm of rain in a year.
		Under the new Ordinance, the 1938 Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Wild Birds Protection Ordinance was repealed and the status of bird sanctuaries was changed to wildlife sanctuaries.
	www.fao.org /docrep/006/ad672e/ad672e10.htm (3052 words)

	Kiribati map and information page by World Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Formerly part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, it gained full independence from Britain in 1979, shortly before the valuable phosphate deposits on the island of Banaba were depleted.
		That island, incidentally, is the world's largest coral atoll, and was once used for the testing of nuclear weapons.
		The Gilbert Islands receive the most rain, while rainfall is sparse in the Phoenix and Line islands, and extended periods of drought are common.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/ki.htm (461 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index
		A Description of Islands in the W. Pacific Ocean, North and South of the Equator, with Sailing Direc tions, together with their productions, manners and customs of the natives, and vocabularies of their various languages.
		On 6 September 1914, the Germans deported the British employees to Ocean Island, part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate.
		The three thousand Banabans of Ocean Island claimed they had been exploited all along the line when their island turned out to be full of phosphate.
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_banaba.htm (1564 words)

	Pacific Ocean - Banaba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Situated less than half a degree south of the equator, 285 km east-southeast from Nauru and 430 km west of the Gilbert Islands, the solitary island of Banaba (formerly known as Ocean Island) forms an outlying territory of Kiribati — for administrative purposes it is considered as part of the Gilbert Islands.
		The island is a raised coral atoll of 5.7 km² in area and is one of the premier examples of such formations to be found in the Pacific — the others being Makatea in the Tuamotu Archipelago and Nauru located to the west.
		The islands interior of stark bare limestone and coral pinnacles (the result of phosphate mining) contains the highest point above sea level in the whole of Kiribati, rsing to 81 m.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/banaba (138 words)

	Kiribati
		Banaba (Ocean Island) was annexed in 1900 after the discovery of phosphate-rich guano deposits, and the entire collection was made a British colony in 1916.
		In 1975 the Ellice Islands separated from the colony and in 1978 became the independent country of Tuvalu.
		Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s.
	www.factmonster.com /country/profiles/kiribati.html (1863 words)

	Kiribati - Gilbert Islands - Micronesia -
		Formerly part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, the Ellice Islands became the independent nation of Tuvalu in 1978, the Gilbert Islands were granted self-rule by the UK in 1971 and complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati.
		Premier institution of tertiary education in the Pacific region, jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries, USP is an international centre of excellence for teaching, research and consulting on all aspects of Pacific life.
		History of the cold-blooded exploitation of Banaba island's rich deposits of phosphate of lime until 1979 and the consequences for the inhabitants of Banaba (Ocean Islands).
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/kiribati.htm (672 words)

	Kiribati Scuba Diving, Resorts, Dive Centers, Charter Boats and Vacation Services
		Kiribati (pronounced ‘Kiribass’, formerly the Gilbert Islands) consists of three widely separated groups of islands in the central Pacific: Kiribati (including Banaba, formerly Ocean Island), the Line Islands and the Phoenix Islands.
		The 33 islands, scattered across 2 million square miles of the central Pacific, are low-lying coral atolls with coastal lagoons.
		Of course, its actual landmass is considerably smaller: All of the islands, together, cover less territory than the city of London.
	www.scubayellowpages.com /destinations/pacific/kiribati_main.htm (835 words)

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