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	KWANG-TUNG - LoveToKnow Article on KWANG-TUNG
		The principal article of export is silk, which is produced in the district forming the river delta, extending from Canton to Macao and having its apex at San-shui Hien.
		The Kwang-tung coast abounds with islands, the largest of which is Hainan, which forms part of the prefecture of Kiung-chow Fu.
		Canton, Swatow, Kiung-chow (in Hainan), Pakhoi, San-shui are among the treaty ports.
	40.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KW/KWANG_TUNG.htm (462 words)

	Kanton Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The official British claim commenced on August 6, 1936 and they made several visits a year to the island culminating in the placement of two radio operators on the island on August 31, 1937.
		Both parties continued to occupy the island until April 1939, when Washington and London agreed to hold the island under joint control for the next fifty years as the Canton and Enderbury Islands condominium.
		NASA's abandonment of the island effectively made it a ghost town, leaving only a caretaker so that the airfield could be used in emergencies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanton_Island (527 words)

	Kiribati - Living at Canton Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canton was only a small element of the global system of NASA's tracking stations, but in 23 short years, the formerly barren atoll had advanced from an unpopulated island to a position of some importance in the effort to put a human into space.
		While Topham Field, Canton Island, was relegated to emergency airport status, beginning in 1968, the F.A.A. and the government of American Samoa maintained a caretaker role during 1968, as salvaged equipment was removed from the island to Western Samoa.
		Canton remained in a somewhat clouded conflict between the "what was" of wartime exigencies, and the new civil, environment of more concern for people.
	www.janesoceania.com /kiribati_canton (15285 words)

	Canton Island
		Canton Island (also known by its Kiribati name of Kanton or Abariringa) is the largest and most northern of the Phoenix Group.
		Canton Island was discovered independently by several ships, most of them American whalers, for which it was a frequent haven, despite its lack of water and coconut groves, for there was fair anchorage off the southwestern lagoon entrance.
		Canton broke into the news in 1937, when American and New Zealand eclipsed expeditions shows it as a spot from which to view the total eclipse of the sun of July 8.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/canton.html (1401 words)

	Canton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canton, Cardiff, a district of the Welsh capital.
		Canton Island (together with Enderbury Island) formed an area disputed by the United States of America and the United Kingdom in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s -- see Canton and Enderbury Islands.
		Canton neighborhood and park in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canton (237 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1938: Canton Island
		Assertion of sovereignty by the United States for Canton and the nearby Enderbury Island was made through an executive order of President Roosevelt on March 3, 1938.
		The significance of the claims advanced lies in the fact that the Canton lagoon is probably the best seaplane base in the Pacific and is thus an important air base on the route to both Manila and Australia.
		The Coast Guard, acting under the Department of The Interior (Division of Territories and Island Possessions) within whose jurisdiction the Executive order had placed the islands, selected five Hawaiians to be landed on Canton, and four to be placed on Enderbury.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500145/1938_Canton_Island.html (421 words)

	Canton Memories of Harold D. Mendelson
		Canton is a coral atoll 200 miles South of the equator and 1,900 miles Southwest of Hawaii.
		The island's highest point is only about 20 feet above sea level, and the strip of land creating the island varies in width from only 100 to 700 yards.
		Despite these problems, the Canton Defense Command was commended for accomplishing "a tremendous amount of work under great difficulties" and that Col Gibson was a "superior commander".
	www.janeresture.com /kiribati_phoenix_group/memories1.htm (1736 words)

	braingame1
		The island of Canton was an atoll 8 miles long and 4 miles wide that failed to come into view as the ETA passed.
		Canton's message was y equals zero; Palmyra's message was 4y equals 3x (Y axis is east - west and X axis is north - south).
		The slope of the bearing line of position from Canton Is. is zero (since Y=0) with respect to the X axis (north-south) and therefore the bearing line of position is perpendicular to the Y axis (passing through the approximate center of the orange circle).
	www.navworld.com /navcerebrations/rickenbacker/braingame1.htm (1760 words)

	WXLE Memories - Part One
		Northwest of Rarotonga and midway between Hawaii and New Zealand, the islands of Canton and Enderbury were claimed by the United States but administered jointly with the United Kingdom under a 50 year treaty signed in 1939.
		Canton Island during the 1930s became a regular refueling stopover for the trans-Pacific air services operated by Pan American clipper flying boats.
		During this period, and prior to Canton Island becoming part of Kiribati, the island made its contribution to the history of radio in the Pacific.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/WXLE.htm (1631 words)

	Canton Island
		Canton Island is the largest and most northern of the Phoenix Group.
		In April 1939, when Canton and Enderbury were placed under joint British and American control for fifty years, and "thereafter until such time as it may be modified or terminated by mutual consent".
		Of all the 22 islands in the Pacific, I visited, this was one of the worst.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/kiribati_canton.html (403 words)

	The Canton Engine
		Because Canton is readily accessible by air (the island has a 6,000 foot paved runway), we are not releasing the informant's name nor the engine's alleged specific location.
		Canton Island is now part of the nation of Kiribati.
		By proving that Earhart and Noonan met their end at one of the islands of the Phoenix Group, the engine would lend significant support to the mounting evidence that Nikumaroro is that island.
	www.tighar.org /TTracks/13_1/cantonengine.html (1612 words)

	Jarvis Island Weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jarvis Island's closest inhabited neighbors are Canton Island and Christmas Island.
		Canton Island tends to have a more dry climate and is probably the more representative of current conditions at Jarvis Island even though Christmas Island is closer geographically.
		Canton Island and Christmas Island are both part of the Oceanic nation of Kiribati.
	home.att.net /~higley.family/sub2.htm (76 words)

	Radio Heritage Collection - WXLE Part 2
		Canton Island was a major link in the U.S. military air supply chain running from Honolulu through to Townsville in Queensland, Australia.
		After WWII, and the eventual closedown of WXLF Canton, the island returned to its pre-war position as a key refueling station for the Pan American Clipper service from San Francisco to Auckland.
		When operations on Canton Island were rapidly expanded to serve the missile launch program from Vandenberg AFB and to house a LORAN facility for guiding U.S. nuclear submarine forces, the whole WXLE facility was taken out of mothballs and shipped from Eniwetok.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/WXLE2.htm (1870 words)

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		From five or 10,000 feet in the air...as we came into Canton Island that morning...the surf combined with the whiteness of the coral and of course the ocean had a very mottled look, as if someone had taken something and roughed it up with sandpaper.
		Wake Island is a coral island, and the coral razor sharp.
		Canton Island is a very small place; it's entirely possible that he met the soldier who mailed this letter....
	www.ingraham.ca /bob/phil4.html (1051 words)

	Canton Island (Kiribati), Aerial Crossroads of the South Pacific by Carl Oates
		Canton Island (Kiribati), Aerial Crossroads of the South Pacific by Carl Oates
		Canton Island, Aerial Crossroads of the South Pacific, by Carl Oates, is an excellent publication about an island in the mid-Pacific which was once an important staging point for aircraft crossing the Pacific region.
		This book is a comprehensive record of the events that shaped the recent history of Canton Island and is a worthy tribute to the remarkable career of the author, Carl Oates.
	www.janesoceania.com /canton_book (149 words)

	Cecil Coale and Starfish, July, 1962 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canton Island was on the earth's magnetic equator and Tutuila was at a geomagnetic "conjugate point" for the Starfish detonation over Johnston Island.
		The island was littered with concrete bunkers, concrete pads and latrine pits dug in solid coral rock.
		Canton Island was a territory jointly governed by the British and the United States.
	www.aracnet.com /~pdxavets/cecil-co.htm (1389 words)

	CANTON ISLAND: Aerial Crossroads of the South Pacific / Post Flight Shop @ flyingclippers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lesser known, on the southern trans-Pacific route, was Canton Island.
		Carl Oates was operations officer on Canton 1947-1948 and later was in operations on Okinawa and Wake.
		Carl's book is a personal account that includes many anecdotes, from the observations of a total eclipse of the sun to the skills of the Gilbertese fisherman (and their lullaby song); and from the shipments of fish to the U.S. to the strategic usefulness of Canton Island during the testing period of the space age.
	www.flyingclippers.com /postflight/1888962216.html (312 words)

	Phoenix Islands @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The islands' recorded history really begins with the whalers of the early 1800s, when the waters around the Phoenix Islands were a prime area for sperm whale hunting, and whaling ships were often in the area.
		A number of the Phoenix Islands were mined for guano in the mid-1800s, but supplies were exhausted there earlier than in the rest of Kiribati, and the miners departed after a few years.
		Birnie Island, Rawaki, and Manra were designated bird sanctuaries in 1938 and wildlife sanctuaries in 1975 and have been mostly left to nature.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0402/feature3/index.html (1856 words)

	Crash at Sydney Island
		The Niku II expedition recovered just such an aluminum comb from Nikumaroro in 1991 and the island's former residents now living in the Solomons recently told a TIGHAR researcher that such objects were made from pieces of the wreck on Sydney (see "Solomon Islands Expedition," page 14).
		Knudson does not specify the nationality but, coming from Canton Island, the airplane was almost certainly either American or British.
		Both, of course, operated the Liberator, and Canton was a hub of ferry activity.
	www.tighar.org /TTracks/12_1/sydney.html (465 words)

	Canton Island from KH7OV/Optimum Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Across the bay is the British side of the island.
		This image transmitted by "O.T." shows several warehouse buildings that once housed parts for the various military functions that were once part of the island.
		The second building from the left is the Canton Island school building.
	www.pacsea.net /html/canton11.html (115 words)

	Overseas Saga of C-47A, - Stop # 3
		Canton Is. in no way could touch Christmas Is. for beauty, but it did have one thing no other Island had.
		We spent one extra day at Canton, awaiting the arrival of the two C-47's that had to remain in Hawaii for maintenance.
		When we finally left Canton Is., our Squadron was split up - half of us taking the Southern Route via Naudi Vita Lavis, Ton Ta Ton, New Caledonia, and Guadalcanal, enroute to Nadzab, New Guinea.
	www.centercomp.com /cgi-bin/dc3/story?1320 (359 words)

	AllRefer.com - Canton Island (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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	Canton Island, Phoenix Group, Republic of Kiribati
		George has kindly shared his recollections of Canton Island with us - a time he remembers as being both the best two weeks of his enlistment and certainly one of his favourite memories.
		Harold Mendelson from Tallahassee, Florida, USA, arrived at Canton Island on the troop ship SS President Taylor on Friday, 13th February, 1942, less than ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
		The mission of the Task Force was to protect Canton Island, a strategic refueling point for planes travelling from the United States to Australia.
	www.janeresture.com /kiribati_phoenix_group/canton.htm (1722 words)

	Black Cat PBYs: Squadron History of VPB-23
		On 15 July 1942, the squadron was moved forward to the island of Espiritu Santo.
		A detachment was deployed to the island of Funafuti.
		The squadron transferred to Espiritu Santo Island on 13 December 1943, in preparation for the return flight to Kaneohe.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /blackcat/hist-23.htm (1554 words)

	USS President Taylor (Granite State, President Polk)
		In December, 1941 she was hastily outfitted as a Troop Carrier in San Francisco, and departed on December 27 to Honolulu, arriving on January 7, 1942.
		Returned to San Francisco on January 21, 1942 and left January 31, 1942, en route to the Philippines with one stop at Canton on the way.
		The beaching of Taylor resulted in staying too close to Canton because the commander of its escort (USS Porter), CPT H.E. Overesch, did not want the ship too far from shore with the threat of Japanese subs.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /ships/usn/president_taylor.html (344 words)

	CS.Canton.Is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) operates an unmanned weather station on Canton Island, in the Kiribati islands, for the study of El Nino.
		Besides taking the normal surface readings, the Canton Island station has the ability to remotely launch weather balloons.
		The facility has been powered by a Bergey 1 kW turbine and a 1 kW solar array since it was installed in 1988.
	www.bergey.com /Examples/Canton.Is.html (119 words)

	NARA - Federal Register - Proclamations
		WHEREAS the extension of the coastwise laws of the United States to Canton Island, as provided in the aforesaid section, is dependent upon the establishment of such adequate shipping service; and
		WHEREAS by various proclamations the period for the establishment of an adequate shipping service for Canton Island was extended to January 1, 1958, and the extension of the coastwise laws of the United States to the Island was deferred to that date:
		DONE at the City of Washington this twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-second.
	archives.gov /federal-register/codification/proclamations/03215.html (292 words)

	VPNAVY - VP-138 History Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
		Detachment of nine aircraft to NAF Canton Island to provide cover for a photographic squadron that was charting Japanese-held Baker Island, 10 August-27 September 1943.
		To NAF Russell Islands, Solomon Islands 15 October 1943 to attack Japanese installations at or near Rabaul, New Britain Island, and Kavieng, New Ireland Island.
		To NAB Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands, 1 February 1944; continued bombing missions in the Bismarck Archipelago in addition to flying antishipping and Dumbo missions.
	www.vpnavy.com /vp138_1943.html (342 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index
		Lister, J.J. Notes on the birds of the Phoenix Islands (Pacific Ocean).
		King, J.E. Annotated list of birds observed on Christmas Island, October to December, 1953.
		Birds of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (with their vernacular names given).
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_bird.htm (211 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hatheway, William H. The Natural Vegetation of Canton Island, an Equatorial Pacific Atoll.
		Van Zwaluwenburg, R.H. Insects and certain other arthropods of Canton Island.
		Degener, O. Canton I., South Pacific, resurvey of 1958.
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_canton.htm (144 words)

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