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	Kiribati Travel Tips - Phoenix Islands
		Hull Island, in the Phoenix Group, is located 249 nautical miles south of the equator, 60 miles west of Sydney Island, and 145 miles eastward of Gardner Island.
		The Island is an atoll, consisting of a narrow rim of land, averaging less than 1/4 mile wide, surrounding a lagoon with depths of 50 to 60 feet.
		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.
	www.southtravels.com /pacific/kiribati/traveltips/phoenixislands.html (1855 words)

	Phoenix Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Phoenix Islands were similar to the Gilberts, being coral atolls, with similar atoll vegetation and climate and also near the equator.
		The most impressive thing about these islands, as one delegate from Onotoa said, was that he had never seen such a sight with birds in hundreds and even thousands, crabs all over the place in various sizes while the reef and the lagoons were filled with fish.
		In 1952 when it was clear that the Phoenix scheme was not going to meet expectations, a proposal first made in 1945 by the colony government to recruit Gilbertese to work in the Solomon Islands where there was a labour shortage, was again brought to the attention of the Government.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/phoenixislands.html (929 words)

	Phoenix Islands
		The Phoenix Islands were very well studied in June/July 2000 and again in June/July 2002 by teams of scientists on expeditions organized by the New England Aquarium in Boston.
		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)

	"The Colonization of the Phoenix Islands"
		The islands are eight in number and fall into three clearly-defined groups: the comparatively fertile islands of Sydney, Hull and Gardner to the South, the three minute satellite islets of Phoenix, Birnie and McKean, which match them in the centre, and the ‘dry’ islands of Canton and Enderbury in the north.
		To turn now to the history of the Phoenix Islands; the archaeological evidence, as examined by the Bishop Museum Templeton Crocker Expedition, indicates that Sydney Island at one time supported a considerable population, while both Hull and Gardner were occupied for at any rate a short period in their history.
		On coral islands certain of the reef fish tend to be poisonous for portions of the year, the types of fish and times during which they are poisonous changing from island to island.
	www.tighar.org /Projects/Earhart/Documents/maude.html (9278 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for phoenix
		phoenix PHOENIX [phoenix] fabulous bird that periodically regenerated itself, used in literature as a symbol of death and resurrection.
		Phoenix Park murders PHOENIX PARK MURDERS [Phoenix Park murders] name given to the assassination on May 6, 1882, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, British secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his undersecretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
		Phoenix focussing on core business, cost cuts: major German rubber processor Phoenix aims to cut costs by having dedicated plants for certain products, and by limiting speculative R&D, in a year where German car production may drop 10 percent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=phoenix (719 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Phoenix is one of the drier islands in the Phoenix Group, with an inferred mean annual rainfall of 800 mm.
		Phoenix was bonded under the 1856 American Guano Act in 1859 and 1860, and was mined for phosphate between 1862 and 1871, by which time all reserves were exhausted.
		The island is valued for its outstanding breeding colonies of seabirds and naturalness of its various habitats.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wetlands/phoenix.htm (774 words)

	Phoenix Islands - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		PHOENIX ISLANDS, a group of eight small islands in the Pacific Ocean, about 3° S., and 172° W., belonging to Great Britain.
		Their names are Phoenix, Gardner (Kemin), Hull, Sydney, Birnie, Enderbury, Canton (Mary) and McKean.
		The islands were annexed by Great Britain in 1889-1892.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Phoenix_Islands (108 words)

	AllRefer.com - Phoenix Islands (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		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.
		By 1963, however, the three settlements had failed and the entire population was moved to the Solomon Islands.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PhoenixI.html (286 words)

	Canton Atoll, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean
		The island was discovered in the early 19th century and was named after an American whaling ship wrecked there in 1854.
		However, in the 20th century, Canton's attraction was as a refueling stop for aircraft on long-haul flights across the Pacific.
		Hence, the island has a long runway on the north shore and the designation, on maps, of the lagoon as a seaplane anchorage.
	www.solarviews.com /cap/earth/caton.htm (224 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Banaba (Ocean Island), about 450 km to the west of the main Gilbert Group, is a raised coral island, 6.5 sq.km in area and with a maximum elevation of 87 m.
		The first major economic use of the islands was as a source of phosphate in the second half of the 19th century, when most of the Central Pacific islands were bonded and exploited under the American Guano Act of 1856.
		The isolated stands of mangroves in the Gilbert Islands and the distinctive saline and brackish lagoons in the Line and Phoenix Islands are of conservation interest, as are the freshwater habitats of Teraina (Washington).
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/pacific/wetlands/kir_int.htm (3061 words)

	Phoenix Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phoenix Islands are a group of 1 million atolls, plus two submerged coral reefs in the central Pacific Ocean, east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands.
		The United States territories Baker Island and Howland Island can be considered northerly outliers of the group, in a geographic sense.
		The lagoon areas marked with an asterisk are contained within the island areas of the previous column because they are, unlike in the case of a typical atoll, inland waters completely sealed off from the sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenix_Islands (223 words)

	Phoenix Islands @ National Geographic Magazine
		Drape your desktop in an underwater rainbow of anemonefish near a Phoenix Islands reef.
		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.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0402/feature3/index.html (1856 words)

	Phoenix Islands Diving - NAI'A Liveaboard Scuba Diving
		So awesome are the islands that National Geographic has written about them and now Conservation International, one of the world's best-funded conservation groups, has accepted responsibility for funding the endowment that will protect the islands from fishing.
		The Phoenix Rising Expedition to the Phoenix Archipelago in Kiribati in 2000 was such a monumental success from both the marine science standpoint and thanks to the sheer abundance and beauty of the coral reef and fish communities, that we headed back there in June and July 2002.
		These rarely visited and mostly uninhabited islands are uniquely positioned to answer questions about the diversity and condition of marine life in environments unexploited by the growing human population.
	www.naia.com.fj /phoenix (884 words)

	Context: The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme
		The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme (with perhaps history's most unfortunate acronym, PISS), was approved in 1938 as a means of relieving overpopulation in the southern Gilberts.
		The Ellice Islands adopted their ancient name and became the nation of Tuvalu, while the Gilbert Islands became, in 1979, the Republic of Kiribati (pronounced KIRibas, the local pronunciation of the English word "Gilberts").
		The islands of the Phoenix Group are now part of Kiribati but remain uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton (formerly Canton Island).
	www.tighar.org /TTracks/15_1/phoenixiss.html (805 words)

	Phoenix Islands Marine Protected Area
		Curitiba, Brazil (March 28, 2006) – A small Pacific Islands nation has distinguished itself on the global conservation map with the declaration today that it is creating the third largest marine protected area in the world, conserving an archipelago of some of the planet’s most pristine coral reefs.
		Martin Puta Tofinga, Minister of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development of the Republic of Kiribati, announced the establishment of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area at the 8th Conference of the Parties (COP8) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), being held in Curitiba, Brazil.
		Protecting the Phoenix Islands means restricting commercial fishing in the area, resulting in a loss of revenue that the Kiribati government would normally receive from issuing foreign commercial fishing licenses.
	neaq2.securesites.net /special/phoenixislands (664 words)

	Phoenix canariensis in the Wild, article from Principes, International Palm Society
		Phoenix canariensis is one of the most grown and appreciated ornamental trees of the world.
		Its native habitat, the Canary Islands, is renowned for its richness in climatic diversity and its endemic flora.
		In the Canary Islands, Phoenix trees that grow in subxeric areas show themselves to be resistant to temporary swamping of the soil caused by sudden rains.
	www.palms.org /principes/1998/canariensis.htm (1703 words)

	Phoenix Islands
		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.
		These seabird species are all still present in the Phoenix Islands, but several population declines have occurred over the past 40 years.
		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)

	DISTRIBUTION OF PHOENIX CANARIENSIS IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
		Populations of Phoenix canariensis occur in the lower and middle zones (200–600 m) of all the Canary Islands.
		Phoenix canariensis is one of the 600 plant species endemic to the Canary Islands.
		In the coastal regions of the eastern Canary Islands, Phoenix canariensis is part of the natural vegetation where many species of this vegetation are related to the flora of Sahara desert.
	www.actahort.org /books/360/360_8.htm (486 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Phoenix
		Phoenix (city, Arizona), capital city of Arizona, located on the Salt River in the south central part of the state.
		1, "The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon" (1988; tr.
		The name of the city, Phoenix, as Richard Hoagland also pointed out, interestingly is the name of the mythical bird which represents the ‘sun’ and is closely associated with the "City of the Sun", Heliopolis.
	fusionanomaly.net /phoenix.html (1519 words)

	Kiribati Travel Tips - Gilbert Islands
		Thus, the island resembles Aranuka in being between a reef island and a true atoll.
		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)

	Phoenix Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Phoenix Islands group of eight islands, 11 sq mi (28 sq km), central Pacific, N of Samoa.
		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.
		Phoenix International Signs Cayman National Bank; Company to Implement Its Client/Server Banking System at Caribbean Bank.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-phoenixi.html (401 words)

	Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme was begun in 1938 in the western Pacific ocean and was the last attempt at human colonisation within the British Empire.
		Conceived by Henry E. "Harry" Maude, lands commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and approved by Sir Harry Luke, high commissioner of the western Pacific in Fiji, its goal was to reduce overpopulation in the southern Gilbert Islands by developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago:
		The Phoenix Islands are part of Kiribati and in 2005 were officially uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton Island (census population 61 in 2000 and 41 in 2005).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenix_Islands_Settlement_Scheme (287 words)

	Conservation International - Feature Stories - New Marine Protected Area Safeguards Entire Coral Archipelago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Phoenix Islands – an archipelago several hundred miles long – are extremely remote and virtually uninhabited, save for a single administrative population of fewer than 50 people.
		Though historically protected by their isolation, the islands are increasingly under threat by advanced fishing techniques and the effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching.
		The need for protected area management and the importance of island biodiversity are two key messages CI scientists and executives are promoting in Curitiba this week at the COP8, particularly as they relate to reducing the rate of biodiversity loss worldwide.
	www.conservation.org /xp/frontlines/protectedareas/03280601.xml (819 words)

	Kiribati - Phoenix Settlement
		Orona, the Gilbertese (I-Kiribati) name for Hull Island, was one of the islands in the "new group of islands".
		Sydney Island, according to archaeological remains, was once inhabited by Polynesian people.
		There were also delegates from Niutao and Nanumea in the Ellice Islands (Tuvalu).
	www.janeresture.com /kiribati_phoenix (924 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 are few places for us to anchor here in the Phoenix Islands, which meant that our seamanship skills and our ability to look after the ship close to shore had to be very strong, in order to increase our potential of exploration.
		This began our voyage through the paradox of the Phoenix Islands - at Sydney, Enderbury, Kanton, McKean and Nikumaroro islands we were to find stunning fish populations but up to 95% of the hard corals on these reefs have died in the last two and a half years.
	www.pcrf.org /explogphoenix.html (4511 words)

	Phoenix Islands
		The materials collected and returned to the museum from the Phoenix Islands will allow researchers access to comparative specimens from this area of the Pacific Ocean.
		In 2000, the New England Aquarium funded a ten-day expedition (the Phoenix Rising Expedition) to create a baseline study of the fauna from various islands of the Phoenix Island Group, Kiribati.
		The Phoenix Islands, lie to the north, northeast of Fiji and the Samoa Islands in the Central-Southern Pacific Ocean.
	collections.nhm.org /collection.html?code=phoenix (452 words)

	Kiribati - Gilbert Islands - Micronesia -
		Formerly part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, the Ellice Islands became the independent nation of Tuvalu in 1978, the Gilbert Islands were granted self-rule by the UK in 1971 and complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati.
		Premier institution of tertiary education in the Pacific region, jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries, USP is an international centre of excellence for teaching, research and consulting on all aspects of Pacific life.
		History of the cold-blooded exploitation of Banaba island's rich deposits of phosphate of lime until 1979 and the consequences for the inhabitants of Banaba (Ocean Islands).
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/kiribati.htm (661 words)

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