12 Facts About Kiritimati

Kiritimati is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands.

Kiritimati has the greatest land area of any atoll in the world, about 388 square kilometres ; its lagoon is roughly the same size.

Kiritimati is in the world's farthest forward time zone, UTC+14, and is therefore one of the first inhabited places on Earth to experience New Year's Day.

Kiritimati lived in his Paris house located at Benson Point, across the Burgle Channel from Londres at Bridges Point where he established the port.

Kiritimati gave the name of Poland to a village where Stanislaw Pelczynski, his Polish plantation manager then lived.

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Kiritimati was occupied by the Allies in World War II with the U S in control of the island garrison.

However, some communications, transport, and logistics facilities were converted for civilian use, which Kiritimati uses to serve as the administrative centre for the Line Islands.

Main villages of Kiritimati are Banana, Tabwakea, and London, which are located along the main road on the northern tip of the island, and Poland, which is across the main lagoon to the South.

Kiritimati is a raised atoll, and although it does occasionally receive plenty of precipitation, little is retained given the porous carbonate rock, the thin soil, and the absence of dense vegetation cover on much of the island, while evaporation is constantly high.

Consequently, Kiritimati is one of the rather few places close to the Equator which have an effectively arid climate.

Possession of an unneutered female cat on Kiritimati is illegal, and owners need to prevent their domestic cats from running wild .

The geological data indicates that Kiritimati is very old and was never completely underwater in the Holocene at least; thus it might have once harboured highly distinct wetland birds.