New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic ...

Workers build a landfill on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, March 30, 2004. Credit: AP/RICHARD VOGEL Kiribati switched its allegiance from pro-Taiwan to pro-Beijing in 2019, joining a growing number of ...

the little bird-shaped island that was the main fortification of Tarawa atoll. There was nothing else to do except see movies, read dog-eared magazines, play cards and sleep, which Marines can do ...

They have predicted that Tarawa atoll, the nation’s capital, will become uninhabitable within a generation. But many I-Kiribati refuse to think of their homeland as a “disappearing island ...

The maneuver schemes "for the landing of the assault waves at Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll brought forth the most comprehensive landing attack orders promulgated up to that date in the Pacific ...

Tarawa Class: Builder ... The eighth LHD, Makin Island (LHD 8), was delivered to the Navy in April 2009, and commissioned in October 2009. LHD 8 is the first U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship ...

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