Enderbury Island

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Enderbury (English Enderbury Iceland ) is a small, uninhabited atoll in the Pacific Ocean; It is about 68 km south-east of Canton, the largest atoll in the Phoenix Islands. The island belongs politically to the Pacific island of Kiribati.

Enderbury is almost 3 miles wide surrounded up to 8.8 kilometers long and one near the coast extending coral reef. The atoll has the very small remnant of a lagoon, the land area occupies most of this atoll one.

History

The atoll was discovered in 1823 by Captain James J. Coffin of the British whaling ship transit. The name " Enderbury " goes to a corrupt version of ' Enderby ' back (after the shipowners Samuel Enderby ( 1756-1829 ), the owner of a London whaling company).

1860 took over the United States in possession of the atoll to there - massively reduce Guano - like most of the Phoenix Islands. The degradation reached its peak in 1870 under the leadership of the American Phoenix Guano Company, as were in only 64 days 6,000 tons of guano mined and exported. After the Americans had exploited almost all guano deposits and leave Enderbury 1877, the area was still briefly taken over by a British Guano Company, although the reduction was barely profitable.

1939 agreed the United States and Britain to control the atoll for 50 years together.

The buildings and other facilities that had been built for the guano workers on the island, the Americans destroyed in the Second World War itself, to prevent any use by the Japanese.

Since 1979, Enderbury, like all atolls of the Phoenix Islands is one, to the territory of the island of Kiribati.

Flora and Fauna

The flora of the island consists of only low grasses and a few shrubs, nesting there and raced today only numerous species of sea birds, each in large numbers.

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The salty, inner lagoon

A place with almost dried up lagoon

A Masked Booby in its nest