Kiritimati

American  

[kuh-ris-muhs] / kəˈrɪs məs /

noun

1. Christmas Island.

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Kiritimati British  

/ kəˈrɪsmæs /

noun

1. Former name: Christmas Island.  an island in the central Pacific, in Kiribati: one of the Line Islands; the largest atoll in the world. Pop: 5115 (2005)

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Example Sentences

Ambassador Teburoro Tito of the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati said the United States and Britain carried out 33 nuclear tests on Kiritimati, its atoll also known as Christmas Island, in the 1950s and 1960s.

From Seattle Times

From 1997 to 2016, Cobb dived at one of the tiny islands of Kiritimati in the Pacific, monitoring the effects of climate change and El Nino on a delicate coral reef there.

From Seattle Times

One year earlier, she and her students had begun a survey of reefs around Kiritimati in the central Pacific Ocean.

From Science Magazine

The unexpected recovery on Kiritimati provides new hope, Baum says, “because it means that even under prolonged heat waves, there’s a path forward for some of them.”

From Science Magazine

The “jaw dropper” on Kiritimati, Baum says, was that many brain and star corals recovered from bleaching while the water was still unusually warm.

From Science Magazine