Key facts
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
- Archipelago
- Phoenix Islands
- Length
- 4.8 km (2.98 mi)
- Width
- 1.6 km (0.99 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Phoenix Islands
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Phoenix Islands
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 5
- Time zone
- UTC+13:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Enderbury Island.jpg
- Width
- 1.5
- Length
- 4.8
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- Commons category
- Enderbury Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Phoenix Islands
- native label
- Enderbury Island
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Enderbury Island, also known as Ederbury Island or Guano Island, is a small, uninhabited atoll 63 km ESE of Kanton Island in the Pacific Ocean at 3°08′S 171°05′W / 3.133°S 171.083°W / -3.133; -171.083. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and 3 miles (4.8 km) long, with a reef stretching out 60–200 metres. Forming a part of the Canton and Enderbury Islands condominium from 1939 to 1979, the island is now a possession of the Republic of Kiribati.
Kiribati declared the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in 2006, with the park being expanded in 2008. The 164,200-square-mile (425,300-square-kilometer) marine reserve contains eight coral atolls including Kanton.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enderbury Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.