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The Line Islands are a group of 12 atolls and coral islands, 8 of which belong to Kiribati. Located in the central Pacific Ocean near Hawaiian Islands... Climate: equatorial, hot humid, which makes high temperatures difficult to bear. On average, the air here warms up to +27 degrees, which allows tourists from all over the world to come to the Line Islands at any time of the year.
Resort type
sights
You can go on an excursion that includes a visit to plantations where breadfruit is grown. Copra mining sites are also interesting.
Entertainment
The Line Islands are popular with fans beach holiday... Here you can ride attractions, water skiing, scooters, visit restaurants, diving, surfing, yachting.
Hotels
Bungalows and hotels are available for accommodation. Do not forget to specify the range of services that will be provided to you upon check-in, as there is no general classification for local hotels.
Restaurants
It is worth trying fish with coconut pulp and curry sauce, pork with cassava, fruit desserts.
“If an alien came to Earth and wanted to see a coral reef,” says a researcher at the National geographic society USA, ecologist Enric Sala - I would show him the Millennium Atoll. " To the eyes of this alien would appear part of what is probably the most pristine archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The five distant islands — Caroline (commonly referred to as the Millennium, or Millennium Island), Flint, Vostok, Malden, and Starbuck — are collectively known as the Southern Line Islands. These uninhabited grains of land were scattered in the ocean expanses at a distance of 2,400-3400 kilometers south of the Hawaiian Islands. The waters washing them are one of the last strongholds of wildlife in the depleted ocean.
During the 2009 expedition, divers spent more than a thousand hours underwater around the five islands. What they saw amazed them.Now this territory is taken under the protection of ecologists. The government of the Republic of Kiribati has banned fishing in the 12-mile zone around each island. This measure became part of a "rescue operation" led by Enric Sala in the framework of the National Geographic Society "Virgin Seas" project. The goal of the project is to study and preserve the least affected parts of the aquatic environment on our planet. Sal's dream of turning the southern Line Islands into a marine sanctuary came as soon as he first came to this place - in 2009. “These islands are the standard of cleanliness,” he says. "Whatever you take: the density of coral accumulation, the biomass of fish, the number of super-predators, biodiversity ... The ecology here is simply incredible." During the 2009 expedition, divers spent more than a thousand hours underwater around the five islands. What they saw amazed them. On some reefs, the density of coral accumulations was so high that they covered 90 percent seabed(for comparison: in the Caribbean, this figure reaches only 5-10 percent). Throughout The Pacific Ocean Large numbers of corals have died as a result of the sudden changes in water temperature associated with the El Niño phases. But the reefs of the southern Line Islands show no signs of discoloration or any disease. “The warming of the ocean has had a huge impact on the ecology of this region, so we expected to see the death of corals, but the reefs were unharmed,” says Sala. Where other elements of the marine ecosystem thrive, corals tend to be highly resilient. In some parts of the Millennium Island lagoon, the density of giant clams reaches forty per square meter - a rare abundance, given that the meat and shells of these animals have made them the object of active fishing. “In most of the atoll lagoons, the population of giant clams has declined dramatically,” says Sala. "And in the lagoon of Millennium Island, the reefs are literally paved with shellfish." The most common is the large tridacna. Representatives of this species are slightly longer than a rugby ball, but they look dwarf compared to their counterparts from the largest species of mollusks, the giant tridacna: they reach 1.3 meters in length. It seems as if the giants "tinted their lips" with blue, purple, green or some other lipstick. The pigment cells inside the fleshy mantles provide color. When the shells are open, the robes protrude outward in a wavy line, resembling lips. Giant filter feeders act as water purifiers. During the expedition, microbiologists measured the concentration of bacteria on each of the atolls. It turned out that in the lagoon of Millennium Island, which is teeming with molluscs, bacteria that can cause various diseases in corals, fish and crustaceans, such as crabs, are the least. Southern islands Line was not always paradise: Suffice it to recall that in 1957, near Malden, the British government carried out atmospheric nuclear tests... But underwater world not injured. In the area of the southern islands, Line Sala and his team counted 325 species of fish. They estimate that the total weight of the fish surpasses all records in the history of coral reef research. In the waters around the islands, scientists could observe the "inverted pyramid of biomass" of healthy reefs: among the fish living here, the majority (determined by the total mass) are predators of the upper link of the food chain - on Malden Island there are more than 70 percent of them. “It's a sea of fear,” says photographer Brian Skerry, “every creature or hunter or victim.” During one of the dives, just after dusk - or, as Skerry put it, the "shark hour of the witches" - the photographer was surrounded by gray reef sharks. “There were about six dozen of them,” recalls Brian. “I tried to shoot inside a three-sided cluster of corals, and one of them kept swimming awfully close. Usually the shark swims away, at least for a while, if you drive it away, but these guys immediately turned 360 degrees and returned straight to me, and after that shark there were five more, and after them ten more, and it was clear that each strives to crawl forward. In 36 years of diving, I have had dangerous encounters with predators, but never before have I felt like the object of a real hunt. " This abundance of predators can quickly dry up. According to Sala, in pursuit of shark fins, a large fishing vessel can clear the reefs of these apex predators in just a few months. In their absence, middle-level predators will multiply, the number of herbivores will sharply decrease, and the corals will be covered with algae. Near the Millennium, divers came across two sharks with steel hooks sticking out of their mouths. It is not easy to protect the underwater world of the islands from human invasion. Far from Big land patrol boats and planes are expensive. Modern technologies, including satellite monitoring and tracking systems for ships, can give the authorities a tip on poachers, but it will be much more difficult to stop them in time. Yet humans are not the main threat to tropical reefs. Climate change is much more dangerous. The reefs will suffer a triple blow: rising sea levels, warming surface waters and ocean acidification. Even one of these processes can harm reef-building corals - the cumulative effect is truly devastating. Among other things, the rise in the level of the oceans threatens to turn into a disaster for small island states... Kiribati President Anote Tong has repeatedly said that his country, perched on coral reefs, may become uninhabitable by 2050, and it is possible that over one hundred thousand of his compatriots will be forced to leave their homeland. “The best thing to do to buy time is to make sure the reefs are as complex as possible,” says Enric Sala. - In this case, the ecological mechanism will not lose a single detail. The closer the reef is to its original form, the easier it is to survive under the onslaught of climate change. "
Bubi Island is located in the northwestern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Translated from English, the name of the island means "Gannets Island". Indeed, two species of these birds live and nest on the island all year round.
The island is quite small in size, its area is only 0.8 hectares. The surface of Bubi is two-thirds covered with trees and thickets.
A virgin forest of pyzonia, directly in the center of the island, forms a circle with a diameter of about 40 meters.
Not far from the island, in northeast direction, there is a large reef, from which it is separated by a narrow and shallow strait.
Coordinates: -9.92634800,-150.20487600
Crescent Island
Crescent is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. This is a rather small area of land, the area of which is 3.1 hectares.
Translated from English, the name "Crescent" means "Crescent". The islet got its name in 1988, when an ecological survey was taking place on the atoll.
The island has a tropical maritime climate, so the weather is usually hot and humid.
About two thirds of the entire island is covered with thickets of cordia and pyzonia. Unlike many other islands of the atoll, they do not grow here coconut trees.
Crescent consists of limestone deposits and sandy formations. Its lagoon is inhabited by tridacna, and there is also a population of the palm thief on the island.
Coordinates: -9.96867100,-150.20290000
Motu Kimoa Island
Motu Kimoa is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. This is a small land area with an area of 1.8 hectares.
Translated from English, the name "Motu-Kimoa" means "Rat Island". This area received this name in 1988, during a scientific expedition to the Caroline Atoll.
Until the 19th century, the territory was much smaller. From that time on, it began to increase: a large field with coral fragments appeared in the southeastern part.
The reef that stretches across the lagoon is rich in tridacns. The soil of Motu-Kimoa, as well as on the other islands, is rather poor. Half of the island is covered with forest. The island is uninhabited.
Coordinates: -9.99074400,-150.22904600
Windward Island
Windward is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Compared to the neighboring islets, this is a relatively large land area, with an area of 11.4 hectares.
Translated from English, the name "Windward" means "The island is not windy." The territory acquired this name due to its position.
Windward's climate is tropical marine, it is always hot, humid and calm.
In 1920, all the vegetation in this area was completely destroyed by the Europeans. Instead, the island was planted with coconut trees. Despite this, in 1988 Windward was able to restore much of its former vegetation. Therefore, today it is home to cordia, pyzonia and tournefortia, which have completely replaced coconut palms.
Coordinates: -9.96420100,-150.20051800
Arundel Island
Arundel is an island in the Caroline Atoll, the Line Archipelago. Its area is 7.3 hectares. The island is uninhabited with no structures at all.
The area took its name in 1890, when copra and guano were being mined in the Caroline Atoll. These developments were carried out by a company led by John T. Arundel, and the island was named after him.
The island is located in the tropical maritime climate zone.
As with all the nearby islands, Arundel's soils are rather poor. Pizonia grows here, but the dominant plants are achirantes and tournefortia.
Coordinates: -9.99429500,-150.21966900
Blackfin Island
Blackfin Island is located in the western part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. The island has the shape of two interconnected ovals. This is due to the recent takeover by him, a small island located in the northwestern part of Blackfin.
The total area of the island is 2.6 hectares. 30% of its land mass is covered with coral debris and sandstone. Directly in the center of the island there are virgin thickets of Pisonia and Cordia, reaching a height of over 9 meters in this part of the Caroline Atoll.
In 1988, an expedition landed on the island, the goals of which were to study the geology, structure and structure of the island, after which two reef sharks attacked several scientists in one of the canals of the island. This is how the island began to be called - Blackfin, or Black Fin Island.
Coordinates: -9.95847400,-150.21229100
Pandanus island
Pandanus Island is located in the northern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Pandanus is the northernmost and most big island atoll, it got its name from the numerous virgin thickets of pandanus, located along its coast, towards the lagoon.
The island is covered with vegetation for two thirds. Since the 20th century, it has increased significantly in size due to the accumulation of sand in its eastern part. On the western coast of the island there is a fairly large accumulation of coral fragments.
The island is home to several species of birds and about 20 species of insects, and its coastal waters are home to many species of reef fish and marine animals.
Coordinates: -9.91146800,-150.20533900
Fishball Island
Fishball is a motu, or young islet of the Caroline Atoll. It belongs to the islands of Central Leeward, Republic of Kiribati. This is a small piece of land, the area of which is only 0.6 hectares.
The soils here, as well as on other islands of the atoll, are rather poor. Half of the territory is covered with low-growing grasses, scattered bushes of tourfortia, pyzonia and heliotrope. The island is the southernmost stretch of Central Leeward and is separated from these islands by a shallow but wide channel.
Black tern nests on Fishball. The climate is tropical maritime, hot and humid.
Coordinates: -9.97640600,-150.21734100
North Pig Island
North Pig is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. The island has a symmetrical shape, and its area is 5.4 hectares.
Translated from English, the name "North Pig" means "Island of the Northern Pig". This is the nesting site of the largest colony of black fulmar in the entire Caroline Atoll.
The climate of the island is tropical marine, so it is always very hot and humid here. The soils are very poor, mostly composed of sand and reef debris. In 1920, they were planted with coconut trees, which disappeared completely in 1988. Cordia and pyzonia now grow in this area.
Coordinates: -9.97510600,-150.20713800
Emerald Island
Emerald Island is located in the western part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost of the islands of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Emerald looks like a crescent from the air and is named so because of the emerald-colored lagoon that surrounds the island.
Unlike the rest of the islands of Caroline Atoll, a wide variety of herbaceous and tubular plants grow here on the Emerald. On the ocean side, the island is covered with heliotrope, pandanus and tournefortia. The interior of the island is rich in the same pandanus and tournefortia, as well as pyzonia and cordia. On its eastern shore there are thickets of coconut palms.
The fragmented nature of the Emerald forests is indicative of direct human intervention.
Coordinates: -9.96314400,-150.21428700
Scarlet Crab Island
Scarlett Crab Island is located in Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. The name of the island comes from the hermit crab, which lives on it, which has a bright red color.
Scarlett Crab is a miniature islet 125 meters wide and only 40 meters long. The island is almost completely adjacent to another Shark island.
The island's reef is the most extensive of the rest of the islands in the Caroline Atoll. It stretches 480 meters from the coast. There are practically no thickets on Scarlett Crab, only some part of the island is covered with single palms and grassy vegetation.
Coordinates: -9.97056200,-150.21563900
Isle of Skull
Skull is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. This is very small island, the area of its territory is only 0.02 hectares.
The island's poor and porous soils are covered with grasses and tourniquet. A large number of coconut trees grow here, planted, as in most other islands of the atoll, in 1920.
The only mammal that lives on the island is the small rat. Reef fish are found in the water area.
Scull Island has a tropical maritime climate that is hot and humid. This area is uninhabited, so there are no structures on it.
Coordinates: -9.98004300,-150.21075100
Tridacna Island
Tridacna Island is located in the Republic of Kiribati, on the Caroline Atoll and is part of the Windward group of islands. It is the southernmost island of this group, with an area of 9.1 hectares.
The lagoon of the island of Tridacna is home to the largest population of the tridacna clam. This fact influenced the name of the territory.
Almost the entire island, or rather, 88% of its territory is covered with thickets of morinda and tourneforces. The soils here are rather poor and porous, which does not allow them to retain moisture well.
Tridacna Island is located in a tropical maritime climate zone, so it is very hot and humid here. Uninhabited.
Coordinates: -9.99446400,-150.21975500
North Brothers Island
North Brothers is an island in the Caroline Atoll, the Line Archipelago. It is located in the Republic of Karelia and covers an area of 1.7 hectares.
The island has an oval shape. Most likely, it was once annexed to Brothers Island. The climate in this area is tropical marine, so it is always very hot and humid here.
The North Brothers soils are rather poor and porous. In 1920, almost the entire area was planted with coconut trees, but today, on west bank they are being replaced by tourneforces, and at the eastern end - by pyzonia.
The island is uninhabited and has no structures.
Coordinates: -9.98119200,-150.21237400
South Island
South Island is the largest and southernmost island in the Caroline Atoll. It is also known by the name Rimaloto. Its area is 104.4 hectares. Once upon a time, it was visited by the inhabitants of Tuamotu, but over time, Europeans also began to visit it.
Inhabitants European countries animals and plants never seen before were brought to this area. Of these plants, only coconut palms have been preserved.
From 1846 to 1936 there was a settlement on the island. It disappeared when a ship called the Weppington moored to the shores of the South. To date, there are no structures in this area.
Three quarters of the island is covered with coconut trees and morning glory, and the southeastern part is covered with grasses. The southern one differs from the rest of the islands of the Caroline Atoll in that it does not contain Pisonia and Tournefortia. The territory of the island is large, but despite this, only 2 species of birds live here: the white tern and the stupid tern.
Coordinates: -10.00410000,-150.22833800
Noddy Rock Island
Nordie Rock is an island in the Caroline Atoll, the Line Archipelago, located in the Republic of Kiribati. It is a very small island with an area of only 0.02 hectares.
The territory got its name thanks to a bird of the petrel family - fulmars. It is the only bird that nests on this island.
The soils of Nordie Rock are very poor. They are almost entirely planted with coconut trees. Purslane grows in the very center of the island.
Nordie Rock is uninhabited. The size of the limestone plateau is 26 by 9 meters. The climate in this area is tropical marine, so it is humid and hot.
Coordinates: -9.98457400,-150.21237400
Motu Kota Island
Motu Kota Island is located in the northwestern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Translated from the Kiribati language, the name of the island is translated as "Island of the red-footed gannet". By right of this, in honor of this bird, the island was named. The gannet population on the island is quite extensive. On the island, she nests and lives all year round.
Motu Kota is practically connected to another island of the atoll, Motu Mouaken, which is located slightly to the south.
Basically, the island is covered with virgin thickets of tournefortia, but you can also find pyzonia and coconut palm thickets here. The rest is empty due to poor soil.
Coordinates: -9.93044800,-150.20498300
Ejur Island
Ejur is an island in the Caroline Atoll. It belongs to the Central Liward Islands of the Republic of Kiribati. This is a small piece of land, the area of which is only 0.2 hectares (30 by 66 meters).
Translated from English, the name "Ezhur" means "Azure Island".
This is the smallest islet of Caroline Atoll, where pyzonia grows. Its poor, porous soil is barely covered with vegetation. In addition to Pizonia, tournefort is growing here. This area is not rich in shrubs, but, despite this, in 1988, during a scientific expedition, 4 species of seabirds were seen on Ejure.
Coordinates: -9.97063600,-150.21549600
Motu Matawa Island
Motu Matawa Island is located in the western part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Translated from the Kiribati language, the name of the island means "White Tern Island". And this is not at all surprising, since the number of this species of birds is quite extensive here.
The island is 105 meters long and 190 meters wide. In addition to a group of narrow beaches and coastal lines, the island is covered with dense and virgin thickets of tournefortia, as well as cordia and pyzonia in its eastern part.
The total area of the island is 1.7 hectares. Unlike most of the Caroline Islands, Motu Matava does not have its own lagoon.
Coordinates: -9.95976300,-150.21269700
Shark Island
Shark Island is located in the western part of Caroline Atoll, the most east island Archipelago Line, Republic of Kiribati.
In 1988, an expedition that arrived on the island began to explore its landscape, origins and possible ancient settlements on its territory. But soon a group of scientists, in one of the bays, encountered a large group of reef sharks, after which several people were badly injured. In this regard, the island was named Shark.
There is a very beautiful lagoon with sandy beach, which is 120 meters long. Most of the island is covered with virgin thickets of pyzonia, in which large frigates and black fulmars love to nest, the number of which on the island increases every year, due to favorable conditions and the absence of predators.
Coordinates: -9.96675800,-150.21475900
Christmas Island
Christmas Island is located among the islands of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. It is the largest atoll in the world, with a land area of 388 square kilometers and a lagoon area of 324 square kilometers and a height of 13 meters above sea level. The island is home to huge seabird colonies, some of the largest on the planet. This atoll has 5 closed, protected areas.
There are several virgin forests on the island, bounded by thickets of pyzonia, up to 10 meters high, scovola takkada, suriana maritime. Herbaceous vegetation is represented by purslane and fine-tailed. About 5,000 hectares of land are planted with coconut trees. In 1975, five areas of the island, the Cook Atolls, Motu Tabu, Motu Upua, Ngaonetaake and the Northwest Cape, were declared nature reserves, and entry is permitted only with written permission from the authorities. About 37 bird species have been seen on the island, 20 of which nest here. Also concentrated here the largest number species of tropical birds than anywhere else on the planet. Of the mammals, only the small rat lives on the island.
The population, as of 2005, is 5115 people. Primarily, locals are engaged in the cultivation of algae, fishing and collecting pearls, the production of copra and the cultivation of coconuts and breadfruit. Tourism is slightly developed.
In 1956, at a distance of about 50 kilometers from the island, Britain conducted nuclear tests.
Coordinates: 1.79871600,-157.32971200
Pig Island
Pig is an island in the Caroline Atoll. It is located in the Republic of Kiribati and covers an area of 7.2 hectares.
In 1828, domestic pigs were introduced to the territory of Pig Island by the inhabitants of European countries. In 1848, the pigs were taken out, but this event still influenced the name of the entire island.
The soils in this area are very poor and highly alkaline. They are of coral origin. Due to the high porosity of the soil, there are no rivers here. In 1920, all of Pig, like many of the islands of the Caroline Atoll, was planted with coconut trees. Today, they have practically been replaced by Tournefortia and Pisonia, which have already covered 46% of the land.
Coordinates: -9.96902000,-150.20319000
Motu Mouakena Island
Motu Mouakena Island is located in the northwestern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Translated from the Kiribati language, the name of the island means "Island of the masked gannet", which is not at all surprising, since its population is quite extensive here. The bird nests and lives here all year round.
From the air, the island looks like the English letter U. This is due to the fact that in the past there were two separate small islands, which then merged into one whole.
A third of the entire island is covered with wasteland, because of the extremely barren land on which no plant can grow. In the southern part of Motu-Mouakena there is a small shallow water in which the tourfortia grows.
Coordinates: -9.93212900,-150.20498300
Reef Flat Island
Reef Flat is the motu of Caroline Atoll. It belongs to the islands of Central Leeward, Republic of Kiribati. This is a small piece of land, the area of which is only 0.1 hectares (20 by 60 meters).
The name "Reef-Flat" in translation from English means "Flat Reef". The territory acquired this name in 1988, when scientific research took place on the Caroline Atol. The entire island is a strip of coral shards. The soils are very poor, covered with vegetation, mainly tournefort. There are only three types of plants growing in this area.
In the same 1988, not a single seabird was found on the island of Reef Flat.
Coordinates: -9.97155600,-150.21557100
Motu Eitei Island
Motu Yeitei is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. This is a small land area with an area of 1.4 hectares.
Translated from English, the name "Motu-Eitei" means "Frigate Island". The territory acquired this name for a reason - frigates actually nest here.
In 1920, the island's poor and porous soils were planted with coconut trees. In the southern part there is a purslane and a heliotrope flower.
In this area, as well as on neighboring island Pizonia, Polynesian rat and red gannet were found.
The entire island is made up of sand and coral shards. It is uninhabited and has no structures.
Coordinates: -9.98842000,-150.22878900
Danger Island
Danger Island is located in the northern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost of the islands of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Translated from in English, the name of the island means "Dangerous". It's connected with large quantity reef sharks that swim here in several channels that separate the island from Pandanus Atoll. For the first time, such a large number of sharks was seen here in 1988, during an expedition of geological scientists to the Caroline Atoll.
Danger Island has an oval shape and is covered with thickets of tournefortia, thickets of cordia and pyzonia. Herbaceous plants are also widespread on the island, in its central part.
The fauna of the island is rather poor, there are several species of birds and about 20 species of insects. But the underwater life here is represented by numerous species of reef fish, sharks and marine animals.
Coordinates: -9.92093700,-150.20508100
Long Island
Long Island is located on the windward side of the large Caroline Atoll, which is located among the islands of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. The island is only 300 meters wide and 4.2 kilometers long. The island is made up of five small atolls that have merged into one as a result of a complex geological process.
There are several areas on the island that are completely devoid of vegetation. In the past, they were bays. Long Island is home to the greatest variety of herbaceous and tubular plants of any of the atolls on Caroline Island. Thickets of pyzonia and tournefortia, as well as cordia and coconut palm, are widespread here.
At the end of the 20th century, at south coast island, the Polynesian ceremonial site of the marae was found.
Coordinates: -9.93376700,-150.19864100
Motu Ana Ana Island
Motu Ana Ana is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. This is a small land area with an area of 2.1 hectares.
The area was named after Anna, the wife of Ron Falconer. This woman lived on the island with her family in the 1980s for four years.
The climate here is tropical marine, therefore hot and humid. The soils are rather poor, they are porous and consist almost entirely of sand and coral debris. 40% of the total land area is covered by pyzonian forests, which are replacing the coconut palms planted by Europeans in 1920.
At the moment the island is uninhabited, there are no structures on it.
Coordinates: -9.99186400,-150.22932500
Coral Island
Coral Island is located in the northwestern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. The island was named after the coral reefs that form its base.
Coral is a small, arrow-shaped islet with an area of about 1.7 hectares. The island is in the process of merging with several neighboring atolls located in its southern part. The canals between these atolls are only a few centimeters deep, so the unification of the islands is just a matter of time.
The virgin thickets of pyzonia grow here, but they are represented by a very small area, due to the infertile and dry soil of the island.
Coordinates: -9.92785900,-150.20487600
Pizonia Island
Pizonia is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Its area is 2.4 hectares.
In 1988, a scientific study took place in Caroline Atoll. At this time, the island got its name, thanks to the dense thickets of pyzonia, covering the center of the territory. Pizonia has poor, porous soils on which the heliotype occurs. The entire island is composed of sand and coral debris.
In the same 1988 study, a Polynesian rat and a red-footed boob were identified on the island.
The island has become a nesting place for the dark tern and the large frigate. Uninhabited.
Coordinates: -9.98943400,-150.22921800
Motu Mannikiba Island
Motu Mannikiba Island is located in the western part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost of the islands of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Motu Mannikiba is the fourth largest island in the atoll. Its length from south to north is 700 meters, from west to east about 375 meters. The area of Motu-Mannikiba is 21.5 hectares.
Basically, the island is home to tourfortia, pyzonia, as well as some types of herbaceous plants. The pristine thickets of pyzonia cover about half of the island, since they were cleared in the 1920s to provide space for planting coconut trees.
A large number of seabirds constantly nest on the island. During the mining of guano in 1900, the island suffered significant damage. Translated from the Kiribati language, the name of the island is read as "The island of seabirds."
Coordinates: -9.95295800,-150.21156200
Bird Island
Bird is an island in the Caroline Atoll. It belongs to the Central Liward Islands of the Republic of Kiribati.
Translated from English, the name "Bird" means "Bird Island". Most likely, the island got this name because of the black tern and black fulmar nesting on it.
The bird is located along the inner edge of the lagoon reef and is shaped like an oval. Its poor soils are covered with dense vegetation: pyzonia, which has occupied almost the entire territory, and tournefortia. Boerhavia, achirantes and morinda are found here.
The entire island is composed of sand and coral debris. The lagoon is home to tridacna and other molluscs. Uninhabited.
Coordinates: -9.97362700,-150.21717000
Motu-Raurau Island
Motu Raurau is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Its area is 3.5 hectares.
Translated from English, the name "Motu-Raurau" means "Island of the gray-headed fulmar." There is a large concentration of frigates and a population of palm thief.
The island has an oval shape; it is on it that the largest coral beach of the Caroline Atoll is located.
In 1920, the area was planted with coconut palms, but morinda and pyzonia, which grow in the central part of the island, are beginning to displace them.
The climate of Motu-Raurau is tropical maritime, there is always hot and humid weather. The island is uninhabited, there is no information about the settlements that existed on it.
Coordinates: -9.98626400,-150.22801600
Brothers Island
Brothers Island is located in the southeastern Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Its area is 4.3 hectares.
The island was named after Captain Brothers, who once became the founder of the Caroline Atoll settlement. The settlement disappeared over time, but the name of the island remained unchanged.
Today Brothers Island is swallowed up by a small island that lies to the southwest of it.
In 1920, the poor soils of this area were planted with coconut palms. Currently, they are being replaced by pyzonia and tournefort.
The climate of the island is tropical marine. Uninhabited.
Coordinates: -9.98203800,-150.21160100
Lone Palm Island
Lone Palm Island is located in the northwestern part of Caroline Atoll, the easternmost island of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. Translated from English, the name of the island is translated as "The Island of the Lonely Palm".
The area of the island is 2 hectares. Its shores are dotted with reefs, and only in some places sandy coastline... The island was named in 1988 during a research expedition that landed at Caroline Atoll. The island got its name thanks to a single palm tree that protruded from the thickets of tourfortia in front of the eyes of researchers.
Also, pyzonia and a variety of herbaceous plants grow here, turning into oceanic meadows.
Coordinates: -9.92888400,-150.20521900
Bossan Bird Island
Bossan Bird is an island in the Caroline Atoll of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. This is a very small land area, with an area of only 0.9 hectares.
In 1988, a scientific expedition took place in Caroline Atoll. This year, Bossan Bird, like many other islands, got its name. It was named after a tropical bird chick.
Bossan Bird's soil is very poor and porous, mostly composed of sand and coral debris. Coconut palms, pyzonia and tournefortia grow here.
The island is uninhabited, there are no structures on it, and there is no information about whether settlements once existed on this territory.
Coordinates: -9.95697900,-150.20000300
Nake Island
Nake is the second largest and northernmost atoll on Caroline Island. In the northwestern part of the atoll is the ancient Polynesian ceremonial site - marae, it was first discovered on the atoll in the 19th century. Marae is the only archaeological evidence of the stay of the Polynesian peoples on the island. Its dimensions are 18 by 14 meters; it has not yet been fully studied.
Storage tanks are located on the southwest coast fresh water, which were built here in 1938. In 1910, coconut palms were introduced and planted on the island, which now occupy only 20% of the atoll's forest. The rest 80% is occupied by pyzonia thickets.
Almost the entire atoll is covered with virgin forest, which is why it is home to a large number of species of seabirds. Birds love to feed in the central lagoon of the atoll, or in the shallow bay in the southern part of the atoll.
Coordinates: -9.91000900,-150.20542100
Starbuck Island
Starbuck is an uninhabited atoll located in the middle of the islands of the Line Archipelago, Republic of Kiribati. The island is located 378 kilometers from Tongareva Island, 678 kilometers from the equator and 173 kilometers from Malden Island. Highest point Starbuck Islands - 8 meters above sea level, its area is 21 square kilometers.
The island is a small atoll, with several lagoons in its center and a large population of black tern and other bird species. On the this moment the island has been declared a marine reserve.
The structure of the island is low-lying, arid, composed of limestone, the island is bordered by reef formations. It stretches for 9 kilometers from east to west, and 3.5 kilometers from south to north. There is no permanent source of fresh water on the island. It is one of the driest atolls in the Line Archipelago.
The island was discovered in 1823. In 1886, guano mining began on it.
Coordinates: -5.63870700,-155.87196400
