Nikumaroro Island

Saturday, December 18, 2010
Nikumaroro before Gardner Iceland, is part of the Phoenix Islands in Kiribati in the western Pacific. This is a remote atoll lying coral triangle with dense vegetation and a central lagoon marina.

    Nikumaroro is approximately 6 km long and less than 2 miles wide. There are two narrow entrances through the rim that are blocked by a fence that dries at low tide. The ocean beyond the reef is very deep, and the anchor is only in the extreme west of the island through the gate of the ruins of a colonial people of the mid-twentieth century British, but it is certain that "with the wind southeast.

    Landing has always been difficult and is usually south of Anchorage. Busy several times in the past, the island is uninhabited today.

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