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Banania. Banania është një fryt me tul të butë dhe të ëmbël, e paketuar në lëkurën e saj të verdhë, banania është një frut i mrekullueshëm që mund të haset gjatë gjithë vitit. Druri i bananes rritet deri në 10 m lartësi dhe i përket familjes së orkidesë. Ky frut kremoz të ëmbël dhe i pasur me vitamina, është një ...
Banana is a village in Kiribati, located on the island of Kiritimati, within the Archipelago of Line Islands. It is located close to Cassidy International Airport .
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Kiritimati was initially inhabited by Polynesian people. Radiometric dating from sites on the island place the period of human use between 1250 and 1450 AD. Permanent human settlement on Kiritimati likely never occurred. Stratigraphic layers excavated in fire pits show alternating bands of charcoal indicating heavy use and local soil indicating a l...
The island's population has strongly increased in recent years, from about 2,000 in 1989 to about 5,000 in the early 2000s. Kiritimati has three representatives in the Maneaba ni Maungatabu. Today there are five villages on the island, four populated and one abandoned: The main villages of Kiritimati are Banana, Tabwakea, and London, which are loca...
Kiritimati's roughly 320 km2 (120 sq mi) lagoon opens to the sea in the northwest; Burgle Channel (the entrance to the lagoon) is divided into the northern Cook Island Passage and the southern South Passage. The southeastern part of the lagoon is partially dried out today; essentially, progressing SE from Burgle Channel, the 160 km2 (62 sq mi) main...
The flora and the fauna consist of taxa adapted to drought. Terrestrial fauna is scant; there are no truly native land mammals and only one native land bird – Kiribati's endemic reed-warbler, the bokikokiko (Acrocephalus aequinoctialis). The 1957 attempt to introduce the endangered Rimitara lorikeet (Vini kuhlii) has largely failed; a few birds see...
Overfishing and pollution have impacted on the ocean surrounding the island. In the ocean surrounding uninhabited islands of the Northern Line Islands, Sharks comprised 74% of the top predator biomass (329 g/m2) at Kingman Reef and 57% at Palmyra Atoll (97 g/m2), whereas low shark numbers have been observed at Tabuaeranand Kiritimati. Green turtles...
In December 1960, the British colonial authority gazetted Kiritimati as a bird sanctuary under the "Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony Wild Birds Protection Ordinance" of 1938. Access to Cook Island, Motu Tabu, and Motu Upua was restricted. Kiritimati was declared a Wildlife Sanctuary in May 1975, in accordance with the Wildlife Conservation Ordinanc...
There is a government high school, Melaengi Tabai Secondary School, which is located on Tabuaeran (though the government of Kiribati wished to re-open its campus on Kiritimati instead)in addition to a Catholic senior high, St. Francis High School.
Bailey, Eric (1977). The Christmas Island Story. Stacey International.Boulagnon, Paul (2003). Emmanuel Rougier: des Isles d'Auvergne à l'Océanie (Fidji, Tahiti, Christmas Island).Sheers, Owen (2008). Bomb Gone. Granta 101."Kiritimati" (PDF). climate.gov.ki. Official government report on the island's infrastructure, ecology, and ongoing issues. 20 January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2016. Retrie..."William Ellis' plate 64". Picture library. piclib.nhm.ac.uk. London, UK: Natural History Museum. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2012. The only Kiritimati Sandp...Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, with more than half living on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is 811 km 2 (313 sq mi) [12] dispersed over 3,441,810 km 2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean .
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May 5, 2024 · Banaba reaches 285 feet (87 metres) above sea level, the highest point in Kiribati. Its rich layer of phosphate was exhausted by mining from 1900 to 1979, and it is now sparsely inhabited. The rest of the atolls rise no higher than some 26 feet (8 metres), making them vulnerable to changes in ocean surface levels.
Oct 14, 2015 · The British annexed Banaba into their then-colony, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in 1900. (These thirty-three islands, including Banaba, are now the independent Republic of Kiribati.) That year, the the Pacific Phosphate Company, later purchased by the British Phosphate Commission, began mining the island after signing mining leases on Banaba for the next 999 years.
Jul 13, 2021 · First Person - Although Banabans share the language with the people of Kiribati, they have an identity and history that is distinct, writes Hele Ikimotu.
