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	Butaritari, Kiribati
		Butaritari Atoll is an atoll of 10 islands in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati.
		Butaritari atoll has a land area of 13.6 km² and a population of 4200 as of 2002, while Makin has a land area of 6.7 km² and a population of 1700.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the United States advance into the central Pacific in late 1942, in the battle of Makin.
	www.creekin.net /c4722-n96-butaritari-kiribati.html (138 words)

	Butaritari Atoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Butaritari Atoll is an atoll of 10 islands in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati.
		Butaritari atoll has a land area of 13.6 km² and a population of 4200 as of 2002, while Makin has a land area of 6.7 km² and a population of 1700.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the United States central Pacific campaign in 1943, in the Battle of Tarawa.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/b/bu/butaritari_atoll.html (134 words)

	Butaritari
		Butaritari is wet and green, with around 4m (157in) of rain a year, and its name roughly means 'smell of the sea' in I-Kiribati.
		Butaritari is one of the larger atolls in the Gilberts chain of Kiribati, located just south of Little Makin at 3° north of the equator.
		Narrow islets is somewhat characteristic of Kiribati atolls running E-W. Bikati and Bikatieta islets occupy a corner of the reef at the extreme northwest tip of the atoll, bordering what may be a second small lagoon to the north of the main lagoon.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/butaritari.html (599 words)

	Encyclopedia: USS Macdonough (DD-351) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On 29 January, she proceeded to Wotje Atoll and participated in the shore bombardment there until returning to Kwajalein on the 31st for the occupation of Root and Namur Islands.
		Wotje Atoll is an atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean.
		Enewetak (or Eniwetok) is an atoll in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific Ocean.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/USS-Macdonough-%28DD_351%29 (3295 words)

	Kiribati Travel Tips - Gilbert Islands
		The atoll is roughly 4-sided and nearly 30 km across in the east west direction, and averages about 15 km north to south.
		Tarawa is not a single town but a group of islands surrounded by a coral atoll, and apart from the south where causeways link the islets, you'll need a boat to navigate around the main features.
		A large populous island in the Southern Gilberts, running north to south with the atoll on the east and a lagoon open to the sea on the west.
	www.southtravels.com /pacific/kiribati/traveltips/gilbertislands.html (2045 words)

	Gilbert Islands - Butaritari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		An atoll of the North Gilbert Islands, Butaritari (sometimes referred to as Makin) is located a few kilometers south of its nearest neighbour — the island of Makin.
		The atoll is one of the largest to be found in the Gilbert Islands, being around 30 km long (east to west) and 15 km across (north to south).
		The atoll consists of an almost continuous and narrow (averaging 350 m across) strip of land that occupies the southeastern side of the formation, a broken series of smaller islets on the western side and a few small islets on the eastern side.
	oceandots.com /pacific/gilbert/butaritari.htm (132 words)

	Makin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Butaritari was once known asMakin Atoll, and Makin was known as Makin Meang or Little Makin to distinguishit.
		Butaritari atoll has a land area of 13.6 km² and a population of 4200 as of2002, while Makin has a land area of 6.7 km² and a population of 1700.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the UnitedStates central Pacific campaign in 1943.
	www.therfcc.org /makin-38686.html (129 words)

	November 2003
		There were 3 other sailboats at Butaritari when we arrived, all of which we had met at Tarawa the previous week.
		The Japanese occupied Butaritari in the 1930s and kept possession of it until US forces removed them from the atoll (and all of the Gilbert Islands) in 1942 after taking Tarawa to the South.
		Although much evidence of the occupation and liberation of the atoll can be seen, to the casual viewer (except for this obvious, glaring example) all of it is well hidden.
	www.bigel.net /photogallery/november_2003.htm (792 words)

	Makin:Preparing the Attack
		The remainder of Butaritari, and the island of Kuma northeast of it, stretch for some 13 miles to the eastern corner of the atoll.
		Butaritari is shaped like a long, bending ribbon; its western end resembles a fishtail, or the armrest of a crutch, with two main points projecting westward from the central shore, forming there a shallow curve, As one goes eastward from this shore, the main body of the island narrows abruptly.
		Butaritari and Kuma are connected by a reef, one side of which is high enough to permit crossing on foot at low tide.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/makin/mak-prep.htm (5325 words)

	Gilbert Islands - Butaritari
		An atoll of the North Gilbert Islands, Butaritari (sometimes referred to as Makin) is located a few kilometers south of its nearest neighbour — the island of Makin.
		The atoll is one of the largest to be found in the Gilbert Islands, being around 30 km long (east to west) and 15 km across (north to south).
		The atoll consists of an almost continuous and narrow (averaging 350 m across) strip of land that occupies the southeastern side of the formation, a broken series of smaller islets on the western side and a few small islets on the eastern side.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/gilbert/butaritari.htm (132 words)

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		Butaritari is covered with dense palm groves, shallow pools of standing water, and scattered areas of Bobai pits (the shallow pits where the main crop of the island, Bobai, is planted).
		Shortly before the invasion the island natives were expelled from the fortified area between the two tank barriers, most fleeing to the smaller villages on Butaritari as they were forbidden from leaving the main island.
		The Americans are clearly massing in the lagoon to the North of Butaritari.
	www.command-decision.com /Command_Decision_Scenarios/Makin_Atoll (3589 words)

	Kiribati: Butaritari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rainfall on Butaritari is enhanced during an El Niño.
		Butaritari has a several chapters to itself in "In the South Seas" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
		Butaritari features in several of the stories by Louis Becke.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/butaritari.html (1180 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography - Titles A-C
		Atoll agriculture in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
		Atoll Anthology II: the use of trees and plants by women of the Gilbert I...
		Butaritari: Fishing port for the Gilbert Islands and the headqu...
	www.trussel.com /kir/giltita.htm (2490 words)

	Butaritari, wysiwyg, kiribati, atoll, islets, butaritari, lagoon, village, about, Tarawa, Pacific, Kiribati, north - ...
		Butaritari was called Makin Atoll by the U.S. military, and Makin was then known as Makin Meang or Little Makin to distinguish it.
		Bikati and Bikatieta islets occupy a corner of the reef at the extreme northwest tip of the atoll, bordering what may be a second small lagoon to the north of the main lagoon.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the United States advance into the central Pacific in August 1942, when the U.S. Marine Raiders briefly took the island.
	www.alphasearch.org /Butaritari.html (707 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Butaritari
		The town of Butaritari on the southernmost islet is a port of entry.
		Butaritari became a part of the British colony of the Gilbert and...
		The group includes Tarawa, Butaritari, Makin, Little Makin, Marakei, Abaiang, Maiana, Abemama, Kuria, and Aranuka in the north; Nonouti and Tabiteuea in the central region; and Beru, Nikunau,...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Butaritari (370 words)

	Butaritari Atoll -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Atolls consist of ribbons of reef that may not always be circular but whose broad configuration is a closed shape up to dozens of kilometres across, enclosing a lagoon that may be approximately 50 m (160 feet) deep or more.
		Discovered in 1798 by an American, Edmund Fanning, the atoll is composed of several islets, with a total area of 13 square miles (35 square km), that surround a lagoon 32 miles (51 km) in circumference.
		Kiritimati Atoll was sighted on Christmas Eve in 1777 by the English navigator Captain James Cook.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018307?tocId=9018307 (888 words)

	Butaritari. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		), triangular atoll (4.5 sq mi/11.7 sq km; 1990 pop.
		The town of Butaritari on the southernmost islet is a port of entry and the headquarters of a copra company.
		Butaritari became a part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1915.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Butarita.html (133 words)

	Butaritari - Republic of Kiribati
		Butaritari is an island in the northern part of the Kiribati Group.
		Butaritari is well known as the island where Robert Louis Stevenson lived in the late nineteenth century.
		The south and southeast portion of the atoll comprises a nearly continuous islet, broken only by a single, broad section of inter-islet reef.
	www.janeresture.com /butaritari/index.htm (1629 words)

	Makin Money
		Butaritari was once known as Makin Atoll, and Makin was known asMakin Meang or Little Makin to distinguish it.
		Butaritari atoll has a land area of 13.6 km² and a population of 4200 as of2002, while Makin has a land area of 6.7 km² and a population of 1700.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the UnitedStates advance into the central Pacific in late 1942, in the battle of Makin.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/20341-makin-money.html (523 words)

	See \| Kiribati Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Kirimati Island is the largest coral atoll in the world, with more than 100 lakes or ponds dotting...
		Tarawa is not a single town but a group of islands surrounded by a coral atoll, and apart from the...
		One of the Outer Gilbert Islands, Butaritari is Kiribati's greenest island, with breadfruit, coconut,...
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/pacific/kiribati/see?a=browse (155 words)

	Kiribati: Butaritari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Butaritari was the site of the famous "Carlson Raid" in which US marine commandos landed from the submarine Nautilus II in rubber boats and slaughtered the hapless aviators as they slept (see Central Pacific.
		The plane rotting in the bay next to Butaritari Village Coop was one of the Japanese flying boats which was in for repair at the time the Americans landed.
		The U.S. task force, composed of four battleships, four cruisers, three escort carriers, transports and destroyers, approached Butaritari Atoll from the southeast on the morning of November 20, 1943 (see a description in the history of the battleship USS Pennsylvania).
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/butari2.html (1697 words)

	Gilbert Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Gilbert Islands are a chain of 16 (An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon) atolls and coral islands in the (The largest ocean in the world) Pacific Ocean, part of the nation (An island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator) Kiribati.
		In the years that followed, many ships ran across the little islands and atolls of the Gilberts in the course of their travels in the central Pacific.
		The atolls and islands are arranged in an approximate north-to-south line.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gi/Gilbert_Islands.htm (932 words)

	Kiribati - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Groups from Fiji and Tonga arrived about the 13th century and intermarried with the islands’ inhabitants to form the Micronesian people known as the I-Kiribati.
		In 1606 Spanish explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros sighted Butaritari, an atoll in the present-day Gilbert Islands.
		In 1788 British naval captains John Marshall and Thomas Gilbert, for whom the Gilbert Islands were later named, came upon several of the other islands while sailing from Australia to China.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562805___7/Kiribati.html (696 words)

	Butaritari Information
		Butaritari is an atoll located in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati.
		Rainfall on Butaritari is enhanced during an El Niño.
		Butaritari was a place of residence for Robert Louis Stevenson in his quest for a new life and the subject of a subsequent story.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Butaritari (627 words)

	World War II Marine Raiders Home At Last
		It was a final homecoming for the Marines killed during a 1942 raid on the Japanese-held Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
		During the two-day battle, the Raiders killed an estimated 83 Japanese soldiers, but their attempts to leave the island were bedeviled by a high and crashing surf and they were unable to evacuate the bodies of their fallen comrades.
		He went to work sending e-mails all over the world, especially to the island of Butaritari, which is part of the Makin atoll, a tiny slice of the independent nation of Kiribati.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /raiders-1942.htm (6613 words)

	Journal: Tarawa to Butaritari
		Butaritari is unique in the Kiribati chain, as they get more rain then the other atolls; making their lands much more
		Butaritari seemed to be in full party mode, with music and dancing heard all along the streets as we explored.
		A bit tired of atoll exploring (they do all start to look the same after awhile), I spent most of the time on the boat, while Chris went in with John to walk around.
	www.neoscape.com /billabong/Journal/12-18-2005_Tarawa-Abaiang-Butaritari/12-18-05_Tarawa-to-Butaritari.htm (1503 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Now known as Butaritari, the atoll today is part of the Republic of Kiribati.
		The first Butaritari recovery mission was launched in August, 1998, and was followed by two others in November and December, 1999.
		Butaritari Island is its most dominant land mass -- only about eight-tenths of a mile at its widest section and 18 miles long.
	starbulletin.com /2000/11/10/special/story7.html (1806 words)

	Makin Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Butaritari was once known as Makin Atoll, and Makin was known asMakin Meang or Little Makin to distinguish it.
		Now that Butaritari has become the preferred name for the largeratoll, speakers tend to drop the qualifier.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the UnitedStates advance into the central Pacific in late 1942, in the battle of Makin.
	www.cabaret-54.com /dust20341-makin%20money.html (421 words)

	Historical Reflection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Despite Carlson's careful withdrawal, nine Marines were, in fact, left alive on Butaritari and captured by the Japanese.
		After an extensive search in 1998 and 1999 and an ensuing forensic investigation, the remains of 19 Marines killed on Butaritari Island were recovered, identified, and returned to the United States for burial just last year - nearly six decades after their being declared Missing in Action.
		And the pioneering role of Nautilus and Argonaut in projecting power "...From the Sea" at Makin Atoll during 1942 was a clear forerunner of many of the expeditionary missions for which the U.S. Submarine Force is prepared even now.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_10/submarine_commandos.html (2852 words)

	Kiribati Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Each atoll consists of many long narrow islands arranged in a circle; by 'narrow', I mean usually less than 200 metres wide.
		The whole circle of islands in an atoll may be 50 km or 80 km long.
		Here is a view of Tarawa atoll from the air; this is the most populated atoll, and the one considered to be Kiribati's capital.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Australia_and_Oceania/Kiribati/Things_To_Do-Kiribati-R-2.html (1173 words)

	Butaritari Atoll - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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