Christmas Island

The member for Kiritimati or Christmas Island is currently in New Zealand for the Pacific Islands Parliamentary Workshop. Kirata Temamaka said the opposition is concerned at government suppression of international media coverage in Kiribati. He then referred to the recent ban of New Zealand journalists ...

The Fly Fishers of Davis will hear from Jay Murakoshi this month, who will give a presentation on fly fishing tactics and destination information for salt water species in Baja California and Christmas Island. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, at Harper Junior High School, 4000 E. Covell Blvd.

FOND DU LAC – Bill Kendall “KH600” from the Christmas Island DXpedition will speak the Fond du Lac Amateur Radio meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 9, at Moraine Park Technical College, room A112, 235 N. National Ave., Fond du Lac. A "DXpedition" is an expedition to what is considered an exotic ...

My supervisor waved goodbye and boarded a plane. I had just started my Ph.D. studying invasive species on a remote oceanic island, where I would be spending most of the next 3 years bashing through rainforest to count invertebrates. My supervisor had done his own Ph.D. here on Christmas Island in ...

The Department of Home Affairs has downplayed concerns that Villawood detention centre detainees are being transferred to the Christmas Island facility two months shy of its slated closure. The centre, in the Indian Ocean thousands of kilometres north-west of Western Australia, has a troubled history of ...

SATIRE: The Press presents this round-up of just-not-cricket news of the week: Detainees at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre have thrown their support behind Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who this week described his disgust and outrage at revelations of cheating by the ...

With a name like Christmas Island, this place makes you think of one thing and one thing only. And that's taking a holiday. Covered in rain forests, red crabs, and miles of coastline, Christmas Island is an Australian territory located in the Indian Ocean, about 960 miles northwest of the Australian mainland.

CHENNAI: The Tiruvallur district administration has put up a notice at the Sri Lankan refugee camp in Gummidipoondi urging the inmates to be cautious about 'agents' promising to take them to Australia by sea as most of them abandon the refugees off Christmas Island in Pacific Ocean. The notice includes ...

In 2016 the company signed an Asian Development Bank contract to supply solar/battery electricity systems in the Cook Islands for the installation of hybrid systems, or mini-grids, on Atiu, Mangaia, Mauke and Mitiaro islands, connecting to the existing grid. Kiritimati, or Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean ...

One example they used was Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Christmas Island is a haven for many types of crabs, which have come under attack from foreign invaders: ants which arrived on human transports. The ants attack the turtles, who migrate through their territory and with no natural defense, ...

A WA spearfisherman has set an unofficial Australian and world record after shooting a massive black marlin estimated at 250kg to 300kg off Christmas Island to WA's north. Perth electrical engineer and ocean lover Jeremy Telfer, 28, speared the behemoth — which towed him for almost 2km before he ...

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'Sense of love' - Christchurch woman who visits Kiwis locked up on Australia's Christmas Island aims to show 'someone cares' during visits ... A Christchurch woman who frequently visits Kiwis detained at Australia's Christmas Island detention centre says some Kiwis there have not even been before a ...

We do know that 176 of the 334 men on Christmas Island are there because their visas have been cancelled under Immigration laws - the main reason Kiwis are being held in detention.They're either awaiting deportation or fighting the order through an appeal process which can take more than a year.

In Australia more than 1,800 plant and animal species and ecological communities are at risk of extinction. Within the past decade they have lost two mammal species: the Christmas Island Pipistrelle and the Bramble Cay Melomys. They have also lost one reptile–the Christmas Island Forest Skink.

'Worse than prison' - Kiwi visiting detainees on Australia's Christmas Island to tell her story. Thu, Feb 22. share. Source: 1 NEWS. A New Zealand woman who regularly visits New Zealanders detained at Australia's Christmas Island camp says conditions there are "worse than prison".

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, N.S. — After several years of appeals that have gone as far as the Vatican, people in Christmas Island are still trying to reopen their church and parish that was closed in 2015. St. Barra Church was officially closed and dissolved in 2015, just over 200 years after the parish was ...

The RAF serviceman was one of around 22,000 British service personnel who witnessed nuclear weapons tests on mainland Australia, the Montebello Islands off Western Australia and Christmas Island in the South Pacific between 1952 and 1958. With their backs to the bomb, they felt the intense heat ...

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, N.S. — After several years of appeals that have gone as far as the Vatican, people in Christmas Island are still trying to reopen their church and parish that was closed in 2015. St. Barra Church was officially closed and dissolved in 2015, just over 200 years after the parish was ...

There's a Christmas Island in the Pacific as well, visited by Captain Cook on Christmas Eve, 1777. Today it's known as Kiritimati, because in the language of the Republic of Kiribati, the letters "t-i" are pronounced with an 's' sound. (That's right, you've probably been saying "Kiribati" wrong.) Kiritimati was ...

SINGAPORE - With a name like that, one would expect Christmas Island to bear many gifts. It has not disappointed. Among its treasures is the red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) - a unique crustacean found only on Christmas Island (it is in the Indian ocean) and nowhere else in the world. These creatures move ...

Wu was then transferred to the detention center on Christmas Island, an offshore Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, in March. ... family at the press event, said they were not asking the ministry to interfere in another country's legal system but to accompany Wu's family to visit him on Christmas Island.