Betio
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Betio is the name of both an island and a township within the Tarawa Atoll, part of the Republic of Kiribati. Betio is the largest township of Kiribati's capital city, South Tarawa, and it is also the
Armorers place a .50-caliber aircraft John Browning machine gun M2A1 in the nose of a 41st Bombardment Group North American B-25 Mitchell at the airfield on Hawkins Field as interested Gilbertese islanders look on.
Guns left over from World War II
Japanese-built causeway between Betio and Bairiki islands
Kiribati
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Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an archipelagic country spanning the Micronesia and Polynesia sub-regions of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The state comprises 32 atolls and o
Betio
…Betio is the name of both an island and a township within the Tarawa Atoll, part of the Republic of Kiribati. Betio is the largest township of Kiribati's capital city, South Tarawa, and it is also the country's primary port. Betio is located at the far southwest…
Portrait of a native of the Makin Islands, drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate (1841)
Declaration of a protectorate on Abemama by Captain EHM Davis, 27 May 1892
Boeing 314 Clipper in cruise, 1940
Stamp with portrait of King George VI, 1939