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1798 Edmund Fanning, an American explorer, 1st charted Tabuaeran coral atoll (part of the Gilbert Islands). Fanning Island Plantations Ltd. owned the island through the 1800s and exported coconuts.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.C22)
1892-1937 The Gilbert Islands (Kiribati Islands) were amalgamated as British possessions.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1937 Jul 2, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan left Lae in Papua, New Guinea and disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. The two had set out in Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, taking off from Oakland, Calif., for Miami on May 21. They flew across the Atlantic from Brazil to Africa, then reached Calcutta on June 17, having made 15 stops thus far. They failed to arrive at their scheduled stop at Howland Island. Radio operators received messages from Earhart saying that they had to be close and were circling, searching for land, but radio contact was lost and the two were never heard from again. Noonan was alcoholic and had been on a binge the night before. Radioman Leo Bellarts was the last person to communicate with Earhart. Errors from the US Coast Guard cutter Itasca were later identified as contributing to the disappearance.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.A8) (SFC, 5/20/97, p.A12) (AP, 7/2/97) (SFEC, 7/6/97, p.B10) (HNPD, 7/2/99)(SFC, 7/1/00, p.A1,11)
1940 British soldiers found bones on Gardner Island, later renamed Nikumaroro Island, in Kiribati that they suspected might be the remains of Amelia Earhart. A report identifying the remains as those of a male was forwarded to England but not to America. In 1998 the bones were identified as belonging to a woman about 5 foot 7, of northern European extraction.
(SFC, 12/2/98, p.A4)
1942 Aug 17, Marine Raiders attacked Makin Island (Kiribati) in the Gilbert Islands from two submarines. [see Aug 18]
(HN, 8/17/98)
1942 Aug 18, Carlson's Raiders landed on Makin (Kiribati) in the Gilbert islands and killed 350 Japanese. [see Aug 17]
(MC, 8/18/02)
1956 The British administrator of the Gilbert Islands put a levy on the export of phosphates (bird manure) used in fertilizer. By 2007 the money set aside had developed into the Kiribati Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund, a $250 million investment portfolio that had grown to 9 times the atoll’s GDP. State-owned investments later developed around the world and became recognized as sovereign wealth funds.
(Econ, 5/26/07, p.79)
1971 Australia joined with New Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia.
(Econ, 10/20/07, p.61)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Forum)
1979 Jul 12, The Gilbert Islands gained independence from Britain and became a nation, the Archipelago of Kiribati. It is a chain of 35 islands that sprawls 1,860 miles from east to west. Fanning Island was renamed to Tabuaeran. Kiribati began using the Australia dollar for its currency.
(www.worldstatesmen.org/Kiribati.htm)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.C22)(Econ, 9/13/14, p.84)
1994 Te Buroro Tito was elected president of Kiribati.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1995 Jan 1, Teburoro Tito, the incoming president of Kiribati, moved the International Date Line a thousand miles east around Kiribati to allow all of its 33 atolls to be line the same time zone. Thus the atoll of Kirimati never experienced Dec 31, 1994.
(SSFC, 12/17/06, p.G5)
1996 Kiribati moved a section of the date line so that its boundaries would all share the same day.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1999 Mar 6, It was reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the 81,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Jun 18, Kiribati reported that the islands of Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea were swallowed by the Pacific Ocean.
(SFC, 6/18/99, p.A14)
2001 Jul, Kiribati joined the United Nations. The population was 94,149.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A13)
2003 Nov 29, China said it broke diplomatic relations with Kiribati after the tiny Pacific island nation opened ties with rival Taiwan.
(AP, 11/29/03)
2006 Mar 28, President Anote Tong of the Republic of Kiribati announced the formation of the world's third-largest marine reserve at the 8th UN conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity under way this week in Brazil.
(Reuters, 3/28/06)
2007 Kiribati decided to turn half of its waters in the uninhabited Phoenix Islands into a 160,000-square-mile-reserve.
(SFC, 4/11/09, p.A3)
2010 Aug 2, UNESCO added 6 sites located in Brazil, China, Mexico, France's Reunion Island and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati to World Heritage status.
(AP, 8/2/10)
2012 Mar 9, Kiribati President Anote Tong said that his Cabinet this week endorsed a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. He said the fertile land, being sold by a church group for about $9.6 million, could provide an insurance policy for Kiribati's entire population of 103,000, though he hopes it will never be necessary for everyone to leave.
(AP, 3/9/12)
2013 May, Kiribati Pres. Anote Tong acknowledged that commercial fishing was still taking place in 97% of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area because no agreement has been reached with Conservation Int’l. on payment for lost fishing revenues. The 158,000 square mile preserved was created in 2008.
(SFC, 6/14/13, p.A8)
2013 The population of Kiribati was about 103,248.
(SFC, 6/14/13, p.A8)
2014 Sep 20, Kiribati President Anote Tong ended a Greenpeace-organized tour of glaciers in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago, a trip he said left a deep impression that he would share with world leaders at a UN climate summit next week in New York.
(AP, 9/20/14)
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1798 Edmund Fanning, an American explorer, 1st charted Tabuaeran coral atoll (part of the Gilbert Islands). Fanning Island Plantations Ltd. owned the island through the 1800s and exported coconuts.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.C22)
1892-1937 The Gilbert Islands (Kiribati Islands) were amalgamated as British possessions.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1937 Jul 2, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan left Lae in Papua, New Guinea and disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. The two had set out in Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, taking off from Oakland, Calif., for Miami on May 21. They flew across the Atlantic from Brazil to Africa, then reached Calcutta on June 17, having made 15 stops thus far. They failed to arrive at their scheduled stop at Howland Island. Radio operators received messages from Earhart saying that they had to be close and were circling, searching for land, but radio contact was lost and the two were never heard from again. Noonan was alcoholic and had been on a binge the night before. Radioman Leo Bellarts was the last person to communicate with Earhart. Errors from the US Coast Guard cutter Itasca were later identified as contributing to the disappearance.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.A8) (SFC, 5/20/97, p.A12) (AP, 7/2/97) (SFEC, 7/6/97, p.B10) (HNPD, 7/2/99)(SFC, 7/1/00, p.A1,11)
1940 British soldiers found bones on Gardner Island, later renamed Nikumaroro Island, in Kiribati that they suspected might be the remains of Amelia Earhart. A report identifying the remains as those of a male was forwarded to England but not to America. In 1998 the bones were identified as belonging to a woman about 5 foot 7, of northern European extraction.
(SFC, 12/2/98, p.A4)
1942 Aug 17, Marine Raiders attacked Makin Island (Kiribati) in the Gilbert Islands from two submarines. [see Aug 18]
(HN, 8/17/98)
1942 Aug 18, Carlson's Raiders landed on Makin (Kiribati) in the Gilbert islands and killed 350 Japanese. [see Aug 17]
(MC, 8/18/02)
1956 The British administrator of the Gilbert Islands put a levy on the export of phosphates (bird manure) used in fertilizer. By 2007 the money set aside had developed into the Kiribati Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund, a $250 million investment portfolio that had grown to 9 times the atoll’s GDP. State-owned investments later developed around the world and became recognized as sovereign wealth funds.
(Econ, 5/26/07, p.79)
1971 Australia joined with New Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia.
(Econ, 10/20/07, p.61)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Forum)
1979 Jul 12, The Gilbert Islands gained independence from Britain and became a nation, the Archipelago of Kiribati. It is a chain of 35 islands that sprawls 1,860 miles from east to west. Fanning Island was renamed to Tabuaeran. Kiribati began using the Australia dollar for its currency.
(www.worldstatesmen.org/Kiribati.htm)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.C22)(Econ, 9/13/14, p.84)
1994 Te Buroro Tito was elected president of Kiribati.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1995 Jan 1, Teburoro Tito, the incoming president of Kiribati, moved the International Date Line a thousand miles east around Kiribati to allow all of its 33 atolls to be line the same time zone. Thus the atoll of Kirimati never experienced Dec 31, 1994.
(SSFC, 12/17/06, p.G5)
1996 Kiribati moved a section of the date line so that its boundaries would all share the same day.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1999 Mar 6, It was reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the 81,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Jun 18, Kiribati reported that the islands of Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea were swallowed by the Pacific Ocean.
(SFC, 6/18/99, p.A14)
2001 Jul, Kiribati joined the United Nations. The population was 94,149.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A13)
2003 Nov 29, China said it broke diplomatic relations with Kiribati after the tiny Pacific island nation opened ties with rival Taiwan.
(AP, 11/29/03)
2006 Mar 28, President Anote Tong of the Republic of Kiribati announced the formation of the world's third-largest marine reserve at the 8th UN conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity under way this week in Brazil.
(Reuters, 3/28/06)
2007 Kiribati decided to turn half of its waters in the uninhabited Phoenix Islands into a 160,000-square-mile-reserve.
(SFC, 4/11/09, p.A3)
2010 Aug 2, UNESCO added 6 sites located in Brazil, China, Mexico, France's Reunion Island and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati to World Heritage status.
(AP, 8/2/10)
2012 Mar 9, Kiribati President Anote Tong said that his Cabinet this week endorsed a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. He said the fertile land, being sold by a church group for about $9.6 million, could provide an insurance policy for Kiribati's entire population of 103,000, though he hopes it will never be necessary for everyone to leave.
(AP, 3/9/12)
2013 May, Kiribati Pres. Anote Tong acknowledged that commercial fishing was still taking place in 97% of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area because no agreement has been reached with Conservation Int’l. on payment for lost fishing revenues. The 158,000 square mile preserved was created in 2008.
(SFC, 6/14/13, p.A8)
2013 The population of Kiribati was about 103,248.
(SFC, 6/14/13, p.A8)
2014 Sep 20, Kiribati President Anote Tong ended a Greenpeace-organized tour of glaciers in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago, a trip he said left a deep impression that he would share with world leaders at a UN climate summit next week in New York.
(AP, 9/20/14)
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