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	Phoenix Islands
		Bleaching began, notably in the lagoons of Kanton and Orona, and mostly to the genera Echinopora, Goniastrea and Acropora.
		Sydney is an uninhabited island with dense vegetation on it.
		Gardner is another uninhabited island, with rumours abounding that it is the island where Amelia Earhart met her fate in a crash landing.
	www.pcrf.org /science/Canton/reefreport.html (1779 words)

	Enderbury Island, Phoenix Group, Republic of Kiribati
		In contrast to Canton Island, which is largely lagoon, Enderbury is nearly solid land, with the lagoon reduced to a small, shallow pond, a few hundred yards across, and dotted with sand islets, covered with a mat of Sesuvium, which also carpets the surrounding basin.
		Enderbury was discovered and named in 1823 by Captain James J. Coffin, of Nantucket, when in command of the British whale ship Transit.
		The island was visited on two occasions and surveyed by vessels of the U.S. Exploring Expedition: the Vincennes, August 28, 1840, and the Peacock and Flying Fish, January 9, 1841.
	www.janeresture.com /kiribati_phoenix_group/enderbury.htm (872 words)

	Enderbury Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enderbury Island (Ederbury Island, Enderbury Island, Guano) is a small, uninhabited atoll 63 km ESE of Kanton Island in the Pacific Ocean at 3 degrees, 8 minutes S, 171 degrees, 5 minutes W. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and 3 miles (4.8 km) long, with a reef stretching out about 60-200 metres.
		Britain also claimed the islands, and in 1939, a deal was signed for America and Britain to share the islands in a condominium.
		Four colonists settled on the island in 1938, to uphold its American claim of ownership, but they were evacuated in 1942 during the World War II, and all buildings were destroyed to stop them from being used by the Japanese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enderbury_Island (382 words)

	1938: Canton Island - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		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 (429 words)

	Phoenix Island
		Phoenix Island lies 40 nautical miles in a direction 30 degrees east of south from Enderbury Island, 77 miles from Canton Island, and 222 miles south of the equator.
		There are no trees on the island, but in 1924 much of its surface was covered with herbs, except on the east side, where the waves had thrown up a ridge of broken coral, and at the north end of the lagoon, where there was an expanse of bare sand.
		On March 18, 1937, with other islands of the Phoenix group, it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/phoenix.html (833 words)

	Enderbury Island
		Enderbury Island lies 37 nautical miles E.S.E. of Canton and 186 miles south of the equator.
		The island measures a little less than three miles north and south by about a mile wide.
		On March 3rd, 1938, Enderbury, like Canton, was placed under the U.S. Department of the Interior, by administrative order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/enderbury.html (851 words)

	Birnie Island, Phoenix Group, Republic of Kiribati
		The northern half of the island is flat and fairly smooth carpeted with low herbs and bunchgrass.
		The most prominent person of that period, for whom the island may have been named was Richard Birnie (1760-1832), who took a leading part in business and official life in England.
		After surveying Enderbury Island, this vessel tried to go back to get a closer look; but night settling down, they pulled away to avoid piling up on its low treacherous shore in the dark.
	www.janeresture.com /kiribati_phoenix_group/birnie.htm (542 words)

	Phoenix Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Phoenix Islands were visited between 1823 and 1840 by British and American explorers, but most of them were annexed by Great Britain in the late 19th cent.
		Previously uninhabited, Orona, Manra, and Nikumaroro islands were colonized with people from the overcrowded Gilbert Islands between 1938 and 1940.
		In 2006 the waters (73,800 sq mi/184,700 sq km) surrounding the islands were made a protected area and commercial fishing was banned.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-phoenixi.html (403 words)

	Phoenix Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Phoenix Islands are legendary as classic “seabird islands” and because all but one are uninhabited many of the islands in this group feature relatively intact ecosystems.
		Due to their remoteness the islands provide refuge for breeding seabirds some of which disperse throughout the Pacific.
		The only island in the group lacking combinations of rats and cats is Rawaki, but this island has high densities of rabbits, which are impacting on the ecosystem as well as the breeding success of surface-nesting and burrowing seabirds, including the Phoenix petrel and white-throated storm-petrel.
	www.issg.org /cii/PII/Phoenix.htm (524 words)

	Kanton Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanton Island (also known as Canton Island or Abariringa Island), alternatively Mary Island, Mary Balcout Island or Swallow Island, is the largest, most northern, and, as of 2005, the sole inhabited island of the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati.
		On July 8, 1937, Kanton was the site of a total solar eclipse and the island was occupied briefly by American and New Zealand scientists, members of an expedition organized by the National Geographic Society and led by the astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanton_Island (549 words)

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		The Phoenix Islands are a widely spread group of eight islands located just south of the Equator and almost a thousand miles from anywhere else on the planet.
		There were larger areas of dead coral here than on the south side of the island, and a large amount of calcareous algae plus a dense coverage of red coralline algae that we had also observed at the other two dive sites.
		Enderbury is a bird haven - we were surrounded by frigate birds before and after diving, some approaching very closely.
	www.pcrf.org /explogphoenix.html (4511 words)

	Phoenix Islands — FactMonster.com
		In 1938 the United States claimed sovereignty over Kanton and Enderbury, and in 1939 Britain and the United States agreed to exercise joint control over the two islands for a period of 50 years.
		By 1963, however, the three settlements had failed and the entire population was moved to the Solomon Islands.
		Enderbury Island - Enderbury Island: see Phoenix Islands.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0838844.html (290 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.
		The rich guano deposits on Enderbury Island attracted American interests in the 1850s, but the British were also interested in the area, and colonial control was disputed with the United States.
		British interests were administered from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and with independence drawing near, the future control of the Canton and Enderbury Islands came into question.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/WXLE.htm (1631 words)

	History of Jarvis Island
		Following the Agate, this run was made by the Helen, the Odd Fellow, and the Active, 1863 to 1864; the Hawaiian bark Kamehameha V, 1865 to 1869; and the C. Ward, 1870 to the end of activity in 1879.
		Probably the most interesting period in the history of Jarvis Island is the period of near continuous occupation, or "colonization" from 1935 to early 1942.
		The publicly stated reasons for the colonization were to firm up U.S. territorial claims to the islands which were considered valuable for their locations as refueling stops for trans-Pacific air travel in the mid-1930s.
	home.att.net /~higley.family/sub1.htm (2736 words)

	Southern Pacific Islands quiz -- free game
		Apart from the main island it consists of uninhabited islands Henderson, Ducie and Oeno.
		Some of the islands were explored by James Cook in 1773.
		The island I ask for is the most important of these.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=97321 (321 words)

	Kiribati: Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lech Slawomir Tomczak's Kanton page has some history of the island and a story about his trip there in 1999.
		Maps of the islands of the Gilberts Group and kiritimati may be bought here.
		He discusses the islands of the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands groups which are in the eastern portion of Kiribati.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/islands.html (1213 words)

	DANFS: USS Taney (WPG-37/WAGC-37)
		Other islands and islets assumed greater importance when a route across the South Pacific was mapped out to Australia and Samoa.
		In early March 1938, the Coast Guard cutter loaded supplies and embarked colonists who would establish the claim of the United States upon the two islands that seemed--at least to the uninitiated --to be mere hunks of coral, rock, and scrub in the Central Pacific.
		On 25 July 1941, the Coast Guard cutter was transferred to the Navy and reported for duty with the local defense forces of the 14th Naval District, maintaining her base at Honolulu.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/WPG/wpg37.html (2451 words)

	Enderbury Atoll; Enderbury Island, Kiribati - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Enderbury Atoll; Enderbury Island map zoom x 4
		Enderbury Atoll; Enderbury Island map zoom x 20
		Maps and coordinates for Enderbury Atoll; Enderbury Island, Kiribati are approximative and not valid for navigation.
	www.traveljournals.net.cob-web.org:8888 /explore/kiribati/map/m1947265/enderbury_atoll_enderbury_island.html (95 words)

	Kanton - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Kanton (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Annexed by the British at the end of the 19th cent., the island was also claimed by American guano companies.
		In 1937 the British built a radio station on Kanton, but in 1938 the United States formally claimed the island and placed it under the Dept. of the Interior.
		In 1979, Kanton (then Canton), along with the remainder of the Phoenix Islands, became independent as part of the Republic of Kiribati.
	columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Kanton (281 words)

	Kiribati Island Groups
		As time went by, the colony was augmented by the Phoenix Islands, the Union Islands, and the Line Islands.
		Due to a territorial dispute, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to form a condominium of Canton and Enderbury Islands on 1939-04-06.
		The remaining territory was renamed the Gilbert Islands.
	www.statoids.com /uki.html (513 words)

	Kiribati
		1 Oct 1975 Separation of the Ellice Islands as Tuvalu.
		15 Dec 1945 Native islanders relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji.
		3 Mar 1938 Canton and Enderbury Islands claimed by U.S. 6 Apr 1939 - 12 Jul 1979 Joint British-U.S. condominium.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Kiribati.htm (724 words)

	TIME.com: No Freedom of Silence -- Oct. 2, 1950 -- Page 1
		I have a new formula: I can settle this question of Manchuria on the same basis as the new agreement we have just signed with Britain regarding the joint interest and control over two islands in the Pacific: the Canton and Enderbury Islands.
		"I subsequently found that Canton Island was nine miles long and 500 yards at the widest.
		Enderbury Island was three miles long and one mile wide, and had a population of four persons!
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,813415,00.html (775 words)

	MARC Code List for Countries
		Entries may also include a note in italics explaining a change in the use of codes.
		See the section "Changes in the Codes" below for more information about these notes.
		Notes are also added to each entity indicating the date of the code change.
	www.loc.gov /marc/countries (1473 words)

	Presidents and States of the United States (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The United States, however, retained Wake Island and Guam in the Marianas, to form stepping stones between the Philippines and Hawai'i, whose American rulers, snubbed by Grover Cleveland, now had their desires of American annexation fulfulled.
		Jointly administered with Britain are Canton Island and Enderbury Island.
		The island groups of the Marianas, Carolines, and Marshalls, after passing from Spain to Germany to Japan now ended up as the Trust Territory of the Pacific with the United States.
	www.friesian.com.cob-web.org:8888 /presiden.htm (17632 words)

	Shuttle images of PHOENIX ISLANDS
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	rove.to /phoenix-islands (85 words)

	Enderbury Island - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-enderbur.html (138 words)

	Geographical Area, D/Hawaii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		U.S. Marshals Service offices are based on the organizational structure of the Federal District Court System.
		Hawaii constitutes one judicial district which includes the Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Island, Sand Island, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Canton Island, and Enderbury Island.
		The organizational structure of the district can be found in the United States Code Title 28, Part I, Chapter 5, Section 91.
	www.usdoj.gov /marshals/district/hi/general/area.htm (84 words)

	Enderbury Island, Kiribati - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Enderbury Island, Kiribati - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)
		/ Explore / Kiribati / Locations / Enderbury Island
		Maps and coordinates for Enderbury Island, Kiribati are approximative and not valid for navigation.
	www.traveljournals.net.cob-web.org:8888 /explore/kiribati/map/m1947266/enderbury_island.html (73 words)

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