Caroline Island
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Caroline Island is the easternmost of several uninhabited coral atolls comprising the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati.
Lagoon-facing beach on South Islet
A photograph of the eclipse, taken on the island
Caroline Island, visible in an astronaut photograph taken in 2009. The inner lagoon appears a lighter blue than the deeper ocean.
Channel between Long Islet and Nake Islet (in background)
Kiribati
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Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. 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 km2 (313 sq mi) dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean.
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