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	Kiritimati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		NASA photograph of Kiritimati Island, taken from the International Space Station.
		Kiritimati was discovered by Europeans on December 24, 1777 by Captain James Cook.
		Kiritimati is the Gilbertese spelling of "Christmas" (in Gilbertese, the "ti" combination is pronounced "s"; thus "kee-rees-mass").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiritimati (472 words)

	Line Islands - Kiritimati
		Kiritimati (formerly known as Christmas Island) —; located less than 2° north of the equator, within the intertropical convergence zone — lies in the northern Line Islands around 3,300 km east of Tarawa and 2,500 km south of Honolulu.
		Kiritimati is by far the largest of the Line Islands and also has the largest land area (321 km²) of any atoll in the world.
		Kiritimati is an internationally significant habitat for seabirds, with up to 20 species breeding on the island.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/line/kiritimati.htm (262 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kiritimati
		Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island (but not to be confused with the Australian Territory of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean), is a Pacific atoll re-discovered on December 24, 1777 by Captain Cook.
		Kiritimati is another spelling of Christmas in Gilbertese, and most people write it Xmas.
		It is one of the Northern Line Islands, and has the largest land area of any coral atoll in the world, 575 square kilometers (222 square miles).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kiritimati (1511 words)

	Line Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kiritimati is the largest (in terms of land area, only) atoll in the world—it is about 90 statute miles (150 km) in circuit and includes a lagoon that is now mostly dry land.
		Kiritimati was discovered by Captain Cook on Christmas day in 1777.
		The islands were annexed by Britain in 1888 with a view to laying the Pacific cable with Tabuaeran (then Fanning Island) as a relay station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Line_Islands (314 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kiritimati, situated on the border between the wet and dry belts north of the equator, is relatively dry in most years.
		There are important breeding colonies on all eight atolls in the Line Group (notably Kiritimati, Malden, Starbuck and Caroline), on at least five atolls in the Phoenix Group (Enderbury, Phoenix, Birnie, McKean and Hull), and on Butaritari and Nonouti atolls in the Gilbert Group (Garnett, 1984; Perry, 1980).
		The major aims of the Unit were to survey and monitor seabirds populations on Kiritimati, enforce strict wildlife conservation legislation, control feral cats and pigs, and provide a conservation education programme.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wetlands/kir_int.htm (3061 words)

	Kiritimati Atoll -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Kiritimati Atoll was sighted on Christmas Eve in 1777 by the English navigator Captain James Cook.
		The largest atoll (and one of the largest in the world) is Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Line group, which has a land area of 150 square miles (388 square km) and accounts for about one-half of the country's total.
		Kiritimati was used for U.S. and British nuclear testing in the 1960s; it now...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045608 (877 words)

	Christmas Island History
		Kiritimati, as Christmas Island is spelled by the locals ("ti" is pronounced "s" in Kiribati), is the largest Atoll in the Pacific at 222 square miles.
		Kiritimati is part of the Line Islands, which combined with the Phoenix and Gilbert groups of islands and Banaba make up the Republic of Kiribati.
		In 1975, Kiritimati was declared a wildlife sanctuary, and in 1979, the Republic of Kiribati, including the island of Kiritimati, was given full independence as the Republic of Kiribati.
	www.fishdive.com /christmas/xmashistory.htm (419 words)

	Kiribati Gives Japan Okay On Christmas Island Spaceport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NASDA will have a seven year lease free period on Kiritimati followed by a 13 year lease at a baseline fee of 1.3 million Australian dollars (949,000 US) per year.
		The Kiritimati region is set to become a major player in commercial space operations.
		Kiritimati, near the Equator, was the site in the 1950s of British and US atomic tests.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/japan-hopex-00d.html (239 words)

	The Communication Initiative - Making Waves : KIRITIMATI RADIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Kiritimati, for the first time, the local population has access to primary health messages, stool specimen tests by the microbiologist, well-water results, songs on environmental practices, home gardening for better diet, recipes on cooking vegetables, and general cleanliness.
		Kiritimati Radio is a useful tool for the education and social awareness of the community of Christmas Island.
		Only a handful of radio receivers were available on the island, because of the nonexistence of a radio station prior to Kiritimati Radio In order to counter this problem, portable units running on solar or dynamo power (wind-up radios) were bought in bulk and then sold locally at US$26.
	www.comminit.com /strategicthinking/pdsmakingwaves/sld-1896.html (1935 words)

	Halfbakery: Kiritimaticentrifugomobile
		Kiritimati is a small island currently located bang in the middle of the Pacific (or, if not quite bang, at least close enough that moving it to bang would be a simple task).
		If the length of the arms is just right, and if Kiritimati is repositioned just a little, the hulls will sweep past the west coast of the USA, New Zealand, Japan and southern Alaska every few hours.
		It is available elsewhere in Kiribati, but (a) I doubt that the required quantities are readily available and (b) based on the current population of Kirimati, and assuming complete participation in the Luddite rebellion, it would take them approximately 178 years to open all of those teeny little tubes.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Kiritimaticentrifugomobile (6219 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Kiritimati, Kiribati (Christmas Island)
		Pronounced “Ki-ris-mas,” Kiritimati Island has a large infilled lagoon that gives it the largest land area (125 square miles, 321 square km) of any atoll in the world.
		Rainfall on Kiritimati is linked to El Niño patterns, with long droughts experienced between the wetter El Niño years.
		This image is based on a mosaic of four digital photographs taken on 16 January 2002 from the Space Station Alpha as part of the Crew Earth Observations Project.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=8262 (230 words)

	PPTA: KIR 38140-01 \| Outer Island Growth Centers
		The TA will assist MISA and UNDP to map out suitable economic development opportunities for the potential growth centers in the Gilbert and Phoenix Island Groups.
		Kiritimati has already been identified as a priority growth center based on its strategic location, comparative advantages, and ecological concerns.
		The scope of the collaborative effort with UNDP will entail (i) assisting MISA and UNDP in identification of key survey data to be collected in selected growth centers, and (ii) analysis of these survey data for prioritization of possible investment in these centers.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Profiles/PPTA/38140012.ASP (396 words)

	Kiritimati
		Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Pacific Ocean was originally selected by Von Braun in his Collier magazine series of the early 1950's as an ideal equatorial launch site.
		It was towed to a location off Kiritimati for launches of the Ukrainian Zenit-3 launch vehicle.
		Sea Launch Kiritimati Launch Area, Pacific Ocean Latitude: 0.0000 N. Longitude: 154.0000 W. Launch Pads: 1.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/kirimati.htm (1246 words)

	Kiribati: Xmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Datasets - the relationship of rainfall to El Nino at Kiritimati and elsewhere.
		Trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at Kiritimati.
		And for the completists amongst you: WDCGG - Trends of Christmas Island Monthly Mean CO (carbon monoxide) and WDCGG - Trends of Christmas Island Monthly Mean CH4 (methane).
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/xmas.html (738 words)

	Kiritimati (Christmas Isl.)
		But even in that comparatively short period it has drawn its workers from Hawaii, Manihiki, Tahiti, Niue and, since 1941, from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati and Tuvalu).
		Kiritimati was a major military base in the 1950's and 1960's for nuclear weapons testing by both the British.
		These plans came to nothing following a drop in the world brine shrimp price and a better appreciation of the Kiritimati Island lagoon ecology (good for brine shrimp but not too productive, great for bonefish).
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/kiritimati.html (3109 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kiritimati
		Kiritimati, atoll, part of the republic of Kiribati, in the central Pacific Ocean.
		One of the Line Islands, Kiritimati is the largest atoll in the...
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	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Kiritimati (63 words)

	Kiritimati: A Christmas Visit by Stephen Trussel
		Christmas Airfield is the "American" doorway to Kiritimati, for another fisherman, the sportsman lured by dreams of trophy bone-fish caught on lightweight fly tackle.
		This one was the same length but rolled in two white cigarette papers.
		He called through the doorway to one of the women in the lean-to, and after a while we were sipping the sweet coconut sap from blue and red plastic cups, like the tops of thermos bottles.
	www.trussel.com /kir/xmas.htm (3470 words)

	Kiritimati
		Kiritimati, largest atoll in the Pacific (1990 pop.
		Christmas Island, in the Pacific Ocean - Christmas Island, atoll: see Kiritimati.
		Line Islands - Line Islands or Equatorial Islands,coral group, 43 sq mi (111 sq km), central and S Pacific.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0827767.html (167 words)

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		For the Kiritimati files, since the two arrays had separate clocks, corrections for clock drift have to be applied to both arrays before summing.
		The available mooring motion data on the Wage CD did not have clock data for a majority of these files.
		Although the clock corrections did a good job in lining up the magnitude of the data, there was still a very noticeable "seam" in the phase running through the data at the interface of the shallow and deep arrays.
	www.whoi.edu /science/AOPE/people/escheer/AST_10.30.2003.html (658 words)

	Kiribati - The King of Christmas (Kiritimati) Island
		Kiribati - The King of Christmas (Kiritimati) Island
		There are many tales of romance and adventure in the South Seas.
		At his death, Rougier's interest were inherited by his nephew, Paul Emmanuel Rougier, who had quite a few adventures of his own and was placed in jail several times, once being charged with murder.
	www.janesoceania.com /kiribati_xmas_king (616 words)

	Kiribati: Air Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tarawa and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) are the only international ports of entry to the Republic of Kiribati.
		Air Marshalls flies to Tarawa from Nadi, Fiji, which can be reached from Honolulu, Hawaii, by a number of air carriers.
		To reach Kiritimati from Tarawa you used to have to fly via Majuro to Honolulu from where an Air Marshalls charter served Kiritimati.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/air.html (371 words)

	Sunrise and sunset in Kiritimati - Christmas Islands - Kiribati
		Sunrise and sunset in Kiritimati - Christmas Islands - Kiribati
		When can I call/have a meeting with someone in Kiritimati?
		Compare Kiritimati time to time in other time zones
	www.timeanddate.com /worldclock/astronomy.html?n=274 (109 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Christmas Island (Kiritimati) at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another point of interest is that you will cross the international dateline as the government of the Kiribati was able to have the line extended to all of it's territories.
		Additional information on Christmas Island (Kiritimati) or other products.
		You should confirm all information before relying on it.
	www.epinions.com /trvl-review-A5A-1580C622-38865536-prod2 (497 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Kiritimati @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Kiritimati @ HighBeam Research
		KIRITIMATI [Kiritimati], largest atoll in the Pacific (1990 pop.
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