SS Norwich City
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SS Norwich City was a British cargo steamship. It was built in 1911 as Normanby, and renamed Norwich City in 1919. It was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean in 1929. For many years, its wreck was a sea mark
The original Second Narrows Rail Bridge
Nikumaroro
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Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profus
SS Norwich City
…as Normanby, and renamed Norwich City in 1919. It was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean in 1929. For many years, its wreck was a sea mark on the atoll of Nikumaroro. The wreck is now largely broken up. In 1911, Pyman Brothers, a ship management company based in London, had a pair of cargo ships built at shipyards…
Tatiman Passage (western entrance to Nikumaroro's lagoon) as seen from near Karake village ruins
Large Pandanus sp. trees, viewed from underneath: Note the typical prop roots of the trees, enabling them to live along the coast, enduring violent seas and winds. They may have been planted as a food plant for the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, 1938–1962.
Nikumaroro Island in 2014
Gardner and other islands of the Phoenix Group, from a geographical handbook compiled by the British Admiralty in 1943-45