11) Tarawa. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...The capital of Kiribati, an island group of the western Pacific Ocean, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands. It was occupied by the Japanese in 1942 and retaken...
12) Kanton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...3.5 sq mi (9 sq km), central Pacific, largest of the Phoenix Islands, which comprise part of Kiribati, c.2,000 mi (3,220 km) SE of Honolulu, Hawaii. Annexed by the...
13) Teraina. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...3 sq mi (7.8 sq km), central Pacific, one of the Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati. Visited by the American explorer Edmund Fanning in 1798, it was...
14) Tarawa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Tarawa, (tra´w, tar´wa) (KEY) , atoll (1990 pop. 28,802), capital of Kiribati, central Pacific, previously capital of the former British colony of the Gilbert and...
15) Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Gilbert and Ellice Islands, former British colony in the central and S Pacific. See: Kiribati and Tuvalu....
16) Nauru. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...An island country of the central Pacific Ocean just south of the equator and west of Kiribati. Inhabited by a population of mainly Polynesian ancestry, Nauru was...
17) Banaba. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Island, island (1990 pop. 284), 2.2 sq mi (5.7 sq km), central Pacific, in the Republic of Kiribati, in the Gilbert Islands. The island was first visited by the British...
18) Gilbert Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...group of 16 islands, central Pacific, one of the island groups that form the Republic of Kiribati. The group includes Tarawa, Butaritari (Makin), Little Makin, Marakei,...
19) Phoenix Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...islands, 11 sq mi (28 sq km), central Pacific, N of Samoa. The chain comprises a portion of Kiribati. The two most important are Kanton (or Abariringa) and Enderbury...
20) Kiritimati. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Ocean near the equator. Discovered by James Cook in 1777, the island is now part of Kiribati....
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