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Christmas Island

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	Christmas Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Territory of Christmas Island is a small, non self-governing Territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean, 2360 km northwest of Perth in Western Australia and 500 km south of Jakarta, Indonesia.
		Christmas Island is of immense scientific value as it was uninhabited until the late 19th century, so many unique species of fauna and flora exist which have evolved independently of human interference.
		The annual red crab mass migration (around 100 million animals) to the sea to spawn is one of the wonders of the natural world and takes place each year around November ; after the start of the wet season and in synchronisation with the cycle of the moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_Island (1994 words)

	Christmas Island red crab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Christmas Island red crab ( Gecarcoidea natalis) is a species of terrestrial crab endemic to Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
		Although restricted to a relatively small area, it is estimated that up to 120 million red crabs may live there, making it the most abundant of the 14 terrestrial crab species on Christmas Island [1].
		Christmas Island red crabs are famous for their annual migration to the sea in order to lay their eggs in the ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_Island_red_crab (172 words)

	Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Island is the summit of a submarine mountain.
		Christmas Island was occupied by Japanese forces from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War and in 1946 became a dependency of Singapore.
		Red crabs are dotted around the forest floor all over Christmas Island and the annual red crab mass migration to the sea to spawn has been described by ecologists as one of the wonders of the natural world.
	www.dotrs.gov.au /terr/xmas (1369 words)

	Christmas Island Fauna
		The terrestrial fauna of Christmas Island is dominated by land crabs and in particular by the red land crab Geocarcoidea natalis.
		The red crab is the dominant consumer on the forest floor, and they play a major role in determining the structure and function of the rainforest on Christmas Island.
		To date, 20 terrestrial and intertidal crabs (of which 13 are regarded as true land crabs depending on the ocean only for their larval development), one freshwater prawn, 14 snails, several butterflies, some 70 moths, 90 beetles, 30 spiders, one scorpion, five false scorpions and 1 amphilicid have been described.
	www.deh.gov.au /parks/christmas/fauna (727 words)

	Christmas Island biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands together became Australia's Indian Ocean Territories in 1995 with a single Administrator resident on Christmas Island.
		Among the best-known are a species of red crab which numbered some 100 million on the island as of 2004.
		The annual red crab mass migration (around 100 million animals) to the sea to spawn is one of the wonders of the natural world and takes place each year around November; after the start of the wet season and in synchronisation with the cycle of the moon.
	christmas-island.biography.ms (1681 words)

	Island Life - Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christmas Island is an Australian-owned territory, yet it lies closer to the Indonesian island of Java.
		Christmas Island is internationally famous for the spectacular annual migration of sixty million red land crabs, from the forest to the ocean to mate and spawn.
		As the red crabs make their epic journey from the rain forest on the top plateau of the island, down through areas of human settlement, across roads where they dodge huge phosphate carrying trucks, the film will introduce the audience to the surreal situations which occur when humans share an island with millions of crabs.
	abc.gov.au /nature/island/ep2 (252 words)

	Rudolph, the red-nosed crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If you go to Christmas Island during the breeding season, you will see 120m bright-red land crabs on their annual migration to the sea, swarming up the walls of the houses and clattering over the tiles as if crabs had every right to be on roofs.
		Christmas Island is a tiny Australian speck in the Indian Ocean, somewhere between Darwin and Indonesia, so named because it was discovered by Captain William Mynors on December 25 1643.
		However, there is another kind of crab on the island, the monstrous robber crab, huge, ugly and frankly terrifying, which is a less ubiquitous beast due to a small but persistent enemy.
	web.mid-day.com /smd/go/2003/december/71907.htm (1194 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		For those crabs that survive, the one week journey to the shores of the Island is rewarded with a dip in the ocean to replenish moisture.
		Red crabs first show up in the mass migration when they have grown to about an inch and a half, which takes three to four years.
		The red crabs and their journey to create a new generation are an integral part of the mysterious harmony that make up our global family.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1996/12/19/02.asp (863 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests (IM0110)
		The majority of Christmas Island’s forest is intact and protected in a national park that covers 63% of the island including almost all of the western half of the island with a smaller isolated section on the east coast (Du Puy 1993).
		Hicks, J.W. The breeding behaviour and migrations of the terrestrial crab Gecarcoidea natalis (Decapoda:Brachyura).
		Morgan, G.J. Decapod crustaceans of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0110_full.html (2067 words)

	crab on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The blue crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States is a swimming crab that is much used for food.
		The sluggish, long-legged spider crabs are often disguised by the algae, barnacles, and sea anemones that attach themselves to the carapace.
		The horseshoe crab, which also is called by the name king crab, is not a crustacean, and the hermit crab, although a crustacean, is not a true crab.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/crab.asp (923 words)

	Whaleshark Diving - Sports Fishing Charter - Bird Watching Tour - Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christmas Island - A Jewel in the Indian Ocean
		The island is also a focal point for sea birds of various species.
		Christmas Island is becoming known as an international fishing destination.
	www.christmas.net.au (472 words)

	Christmas Island
		Man's arrival on the island has, however, made this journey more dangerous than it already was, as he has cleared large tracts on the island for roads and mines, built houses and generally denuded some 35% of the land of its tropical forest covering.
		Caught in the open without shade, the crabs soon dehydrate and die, not to mention those that cannot be avoided as one drives along white roads turned red by the sheer numbers on the move.
		Shore-line burrows reveal ever present ghost crabs, whilst sharing the jungle with the reds are crabs of all colours - blue [which dominate the one or two areas where there is surface water], brown, purple and yellow crabs as well as various types of nippers.
	www.mcloughlin.uk.com /xmasisle.html (1317 words)

	CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
		Christmas Island National Park is definitely the most prominent attraction on the island.
		Much of the flora and fauna found on Christmas Island is indigenous, with the island's remote location ensuring that most species that find their way here, end up staying here.
		Christmas Island has become known for its crab population, easily earning the title of one of the world's crabbiest places.
	www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/localinterest.cfm?recordID=133 (299 words)

	The World Today Archive - Plan to rid the crazy ant from Christmas Island
		LISA STINGEL: The most famous inhabitant of Christmas Island is the red crab, which emerge from their burrows in the millions each wet season to make their way to the ocean.
		But the habitat of the crab is under threat from the crazy ant, which is believed to have taken over at least eighteen per cent of the rainforest.
		All the new seedlings that are coming up, generally crops by the crab, so in areas where there's been high ant densities and a marked decrease in the crab population, we now have this sort of flush of seedlings that have come up, which wouldn't naturally occur on the forest floor.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s62865.htm (537 words)

	Christmas Island
		Sixty three percent of Christmas Island's 135 square kilometers is National Park and the island's close proximity to South East Asia and the Equator has resulted in a diverse range of flora and fauna.
		Christmas Island is the peak of an ancient volcano rising from the edge of the Java Trench, Indian Ocean's deepest point and is surrounded by a narrow reef that plunges into a bottomless abyss!
		Christmas Island is the playground for pods of spinner dolphins that frequent the island year round and you may be lucky to come face to face with one of our most majestic visitors- the whaleshark.
	www.xs4all.nl /~aobt/siteabori/christmas_island.htm (3102 words)

	Follow That Bird - Birdwatching tours in Sydney and Australia from 1 day to 2 weeks
		The Australian island territory of Christmas Island is a remote speck of land some 300 kilometres south of Java and 1400 kilometres NW of Broome.
		Christmas Island is in fact home to over 20 species of land crab (the most biodiverse location in the world for these crustaceans) and includes the Giant Robber Crab, a species that has disappeared from 90% of its original range.
		Christmas Island's close location to Java has made it a top location for finding vagrant birds from Indonesia that have overshot the mark.
	www.followthatbird.com.au /xmasisland.htm (472 words)

	Red Crabs on Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of the 14 species of land crabs on Christmas Island, the most noticeable is the red crab.
		The crabs that survive the week long trip to the ocean dip themselves in the water and then head into the closest woods where they will mate with females.
		After a month, baby crabs about the size of a fingernail come out of the water and start the same journey their parents made through town and into the forest.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p820.htm (569 words)

	Crazy Ants Wiping Out Famed Crabs -- Animal Planet -- ants, crabs
		The island's land crabs — famous for migrating in their millions every year to the ocean to spawn — are blinded by the ants' formic acid and are quickly overwhelmed, eaten and left dying in rotting piles on the forest floor.
		The land crabs are a star attraction on Christmas Island, scrambling in swarms to the ocean cliffs in the breeding season.
		The crabs are a key part of the island's delicate and unique ecosystem as they clear the forest floors of leaf litter.
	animal.discovery.com /news/reu/20020408/crab.html (576 words)

	Ranger Rick: Red crab invasion - Christmas Island
		Christmas Island is decorated in holiday colors each year, starting in November.
		These crabs are leaving the forest to start their mating march.
		Christmas Island is a tiny Australian territory 220 miles (360 km) from the big Indonesian island of Java.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPG/is_n1_v32/ai_20135033 (1011 words)

	Christmas Island Australia and New Zealand - Cruise Reivews.com
		At approximately 380 kilometres south of Java Head at the southern entrance to the Sunda Strait, the island is approximately 1,350 km from Singapore and approximately 2,650 km from Perth.
		Kiritimati is an island of the Republic of Kiribati.
		Christmas Island's port is located in Flying Fish Cove, on the northeast tip of the island.
	www.cruise-reviews.com /port_info/port_detail.asp?fPortID=197 (1309 words)

	superchefblog: Hello, Christmas Island!
		There are millions of them (those are red crabs in the photo above, crossing the street with a bicyclist during migration) and their life cycle well documented, but I see little evidence that they are served cold or hot, if you take my meaning...
		Not that Christmas Island is unaffected by world events, even the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia -- yes, the recent big news was a Perth judge's conviction of a Pakistani man for smuggling Afghan refugees from Indonesia -- that's right -- to Christmas Island.
		Born and grew up on the Island at a time when there were limited conservation regulations and the island yet to be declared a National Park, we occasionally sampled the land-crab varieties like the robber-crab and the blue-crab.
	www.superchefblog.com /2004/12/hello-christmas-island.html (755 words)

	Travel Destinations - Christmas Island
		The good news is that Christmas Island is turning toward tourism and expanding the Christmas Island Park to cover 65 percent of the island.
		In 1958, Christmas Island was declared a British crown colony, and less than a year later, the island became a territory of Australia.
		The other famous crab of the island is the red crab, whose annual breeding season begins in the early weeks of November.
	travel.lycos.com /Destinations/location.asp?pid=332719 (414 words)

	NIC.CX - The Christmas Island Domain
		Christmas Island has a vast array of wildlife on the island, much of it due to the huge national park.
		Because the island is so remote, there are many species of both animal and plant which are unique to Christmas Island.
		The island is overrun with red crabs amongst other types, which has given the island a reputation as crab capital of the world.
	www.idefx.cx /cxnic/nature.html (167 words)

	Christmas Island
		Christmas Island is located 2600km north-west of Perth, Western Australia.
		The island is famed for it's red crab population - approximately 100 million of them live there.
		63% of the island is a national park; tropical rainforest abounds.
	www.bignjuicy.co.uk /x2.htm (236 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Using a variety of mark recapture and radio-tracking techniques we established the migratory behaviour and paths likely to be used by crabs on their breeding migration, the likely duration and density and the probability of impact on planned town and industrial development.
		Physiological adaptations of the amphibious crab Leptograpsus variegatus
		Respiratory and exercise physiology of the terrestrial Christmas Island red crab Gecarcoidea natalis
	users.bigpond.net.au /morlab/cv_stuff/cv-sm2.html (8743 words)

	Morris - publications
		The respiratory gas transport, acid-base state, ion and metabolite status of the Christmas Island Blue Crab, Cardisoma hirtipes (Dana) assessed in situ with respect to immersion.
		Circulatory, acid-base status and respiratory responses of the purple shore crab Leptograpsus variegatus to immersion.
		Haemolymph respiratory gas, acid-base and ion status of the amphibious purple shore crab Leptograpsus variegatus (Fabricius) during immersion and environmental hypoxia.
	www.bio.bris.ac.uk /research/morlab/publ.htm (2256 words)

	CNN - Crab migration on tiny Australian island - Dec. 19, 1997
		CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia (CNN) -- Given that it's the festive season, one might expect Australia's Christmas Island to be decked out in all sorts of holiday finery.
		But it's not tinsel that's providing the spectacle -- it's the annual migration of 120 million red crabs from the island's rainforest down to the sea.
		The bright red crabs are certainly in keeping with the season, although some people don't take kindly to sharing the roads with the scurrying crustaceans.
	edition.cnn.com /TRAVEL/NEWS/9712/19/australia.crabs (177 words)

	Dr Darrens World of Crabs - The Gallery - Stamp Collection
		A group at the Natural History Museum in London are carrying out research on the life cycle of this crab and are interested in any sightings.
		Red Crabs are not the only land crabs found on this remote island in the Indian Ocean, as seen in the following stamps.
		The largest crab present on Christmas Island is the Robber or Coconut Crab, Birgus latro, related to the Hermit crabs, and seen in these stamps from Niue.
	www.brachyura.fsnet.co.uk /stamp.htm (214 words)

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