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	Kiribati - Phoenix Settlement
		Orona, the Gilbertese (I-Kiribati) name for Hull Island, was one of the islands in the "new group of islands".
		The Phoenix Islands were similar to the Gilberts, being coral atolls, with similar atoll vegetation and climate and also near the equator.
		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.janeresture.com /kiribati_phoenix/index.htm (924 words)

	Phoenix Islands Close up @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Phoenix Islands are a sparsely populated chain of atolls in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands.
		The group is a possession of Kiribati and is officially uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton.
		The islands and surrounding areas are home to some 120 species of coral and more than 500 fish.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Phoenix_Islands (220 words)

	Andaman Islands
		These islands, so near countries that have for ages attained consideration civilization and have been the seat of great empires, and close to the track of a great commerce which has gone on at least 2000 years, continue to our day the abode of savages as low in civilization as almost any known on earth.
		Dr Mouat, in 1857, whilst steaming rapidly round the islands, everywhere saw natives in considerable numbers, and was induced to believe that the older and lower estimates had been much under the truth; but there is reason to believe that the population is on the coast only.
		The islands are exposed to the full force of the south-west monsoon of summer, and also in some seasons share that rainy effect of the north-east monsoon of the late autumn which characterizes the Coromandel coast in the same latitude.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AND/andaman-islands.html (3732 words)

	Barbados country portal for business politics people culture places photographs
		The Gilbert Islands are a chain of 16 atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, main part of the nation Kiribati ("Kiribati" is the rendition of "Gilberts" in the Kiribati language).
		The natives of the Gilbert Islands are Micronesian, similar in many respects to the natives of the Marshalls, the Carolines, and the Marianas.
		The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme sought to provide an outlet through the development of three uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands and was the last attempt at human colonization within the British Empire.
	www.barbadosiworld.com /wiki-Gilbert_Islands (929 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.
		Under the settlement plan, impoverished, landless families were recruited from islands in the southern Gilberts such as Arorae and Onotoa, to settle the uninhabited Phoenix Group which lay some 500 miles to the southeast.
		Ten men began clearing the dense tropical forest in December 1938 and settlement of the island officially began when they were joined by their families in April 1939, bringing the island population to twenty-three.
	www.tighar.org /TTracks/15_1/phoenixiss.html (805 words)

	Phoenix Islands @ National Geographic Magazine
		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.
		Eventually, by 1963, the settlements had failed (one story tells of a group of colonists who threw salt into their only freshwater reserve and claimed their water was ruined so they could leave), and any remaining colonists were moved to the Solomon Islands.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0402/feature3/index.html (1856 words)

	Phoenix Islands
		The Phoenix Group is one of the three groups of islands in the Republic of Kiribati.
		It comprises eight islands and despite evidence of early Polynesian navigation, few of these islands have ever seen a permanent population.
		The islands of the Phoenix Group have their own unique history.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/phoenixislands.html (929 words)

	TT 14/2 Bones and Shoes
		Although the most widely held assumption is that she simply crashed and sank in the Pacific Ocean, many speculative and not-so speculative alternative explanations have been advanced over the years.
		Four archeological surveys and test excavations have been conducted to date on the island with the cooperation of the Kiribati Government, and extensive archival and oral historical research is ongoing.
		There was never an "Irish magistrate" on the island, but there was a British colonial administrator of Irish descent, Gerald B. Gallagher, whose nickname was in fact "Irish." Gallagher did not die in a boat 24 hours out of Fiji, but he did die on Nikumaroro about 24 hours after returning from leave in Fiji.
	www.tighar.org /TTracks/14_2/14-2Bones.html (3233 words)

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		The best explanation is that Augustus's succession scheme was a flexible one, comprising a pool of princes from which the emperor could draw in the event of emergencies -- a wise counsel, as matters turned out.
		The existence of some worry concerning a possible conspiracy is borne out by the rumors of Tiberius's dealings with military commanders while on Rhodes, thereby exciting his stepfather's suspicions, see Suet.
	www.roman-emperors.org /tiberius.htm (6306 words)

	The Sextant Box Mystery
		Along with the bones and shoe parts found on Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) in 1940 was a box which was judged to have once contained a nautical sextant.
		Written on the box were numbers which could be the key to establishing the origin of the box and possibly the identity of the person whose bones were found with it.
		We do not know if the box still exists (it was last known to be in Fiji in 1941), nor do we know for sure just what it looked like.
	www.tighar.org /Projects/Earhart/Bulletins/12_Sextantbox/12_Sextantbox.html (861 words)

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	www.tighar.org /TTracks/contents11_15.html (396 words)

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