Kiritimati
Americannoun
noun
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The island of Kiritimati - an atoll in the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati - became the first place to enter 2026.
From BBC
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
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