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WHAT DOES PHOENIX ISLANDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phoenix Islands

Phoenix Islands

The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they became the site of the last attempted colonial expansion of the British Empire through the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. The islands and surrounding areas are home to some 120 species of coral and more than 500 species of fish. On January 28, 2008, the government of Kiribati formally declared the entire Phoenix group and surrounding waters a protected area, making its 410,500 square kilometres the world's largest marine protected area at the time. The group is uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton. The United States unincorporated territories of Baker Island and Howland Island are often considered northerly outliers of the group, in the geographical sense. Howland and Baker are statistically grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands, however. The United States previously claimed all the Phoenix Islands under the Guano Islands Act.

Definition of Phoenix Islands in the English dictionary

The definition of Phoenix Islands in the dictionary is a group of eight coral islands in the central Pacific: administratively part of Kiribati. Area: 28 sq km. The islands and surrounding waters form the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area. Area: 410 500 sq km.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHOENIX ISLANDS

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Phocis
phocomelia
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phoebe
Phoebus
Phoebus Apollo
Phoenices
Phoenicia
Phoenician
Phoenician juniper
phoenix
phoenixism
phoenixlike
pholas
pholidosis
Pholus
Phomvihane

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHOENIX ISLANDS

British Virgin Islands
Caicos Islands
Cayman Islands
Cook Islands
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
hands
Highlands
Hollands
Islands
Keeling Islands
lands
Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
Midlands
Netherlands
Northern Mariana Islands
Solomon Islands
the Netherlands
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands

Synonyms and antonyms of Phoenix Islands in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Phoenix Islands» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHOENIX ISLANDS

Find out the translation of Phoenix Islands to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Phoenix Islands from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Phoenix Islands» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

凤凰岛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Islas Fénix
570 millions of speakers

English

Phoenix Islands
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फीनिक्स द्वीप
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جزر فينيكس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

острова Феникс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Ilhas Phoenix
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফিনিক্স দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

des îles Phoenix
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepulauan Phoenix
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Phoenix -Inseln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フェニックス諸島
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

피닉스 제도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kapuloan Phoenix
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Quần đảo Phoenix
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பீனிக்ஸ் தீவுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फिनिक्स बेटे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Phoenix Adaları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Isole della Fenice
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wyspy Phoenix
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Острови Фенікс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Insulele Phoenix
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Phoenix Νησιά
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Phoenix Eilande
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Phoenix Islands
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Phoenix Islands
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Phoenix Islands

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOENIX ISLANDS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Phoenix Islands

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHOENIX ISLANDS»

Discover the use of Phoenix Islands in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Phoenix Islands and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Coral reefs, climate change and resilience : an agenda for ...
The Phoenix Islands, the central one of three island groups in Kiribati, has been largely uninhabited for several centuries, only supporting temporary populations for decades at a time. Away from the major transit routes across the Pacific, the ...
David Obura, Gabriel D. Grimsditch
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Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati
In the same year, Ocean (Banaba), Fanning (Tabuaeran), Washington (Teraina) and the Union (Tokelau) Islands were also incorporated within its boundaries, as was Christmas (Kiritimati) Island in 1919 and most of the Phoenix Islands in ...
Howard Van Trease, 1993
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Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved?
View at www.tighar.org (September 1, 2000). Maude, H. E. 1937a. Colonization of the Phoenix Islands by the Surplus Population of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Confidential Report, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Suva: Government Press.
Thomas F. King, 2004
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IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania
Garnett (1983b) makes a number of general management recommendations for the Phoenix Islands, including erection of multilingual notice boards advising visitors, for example long-distance yachtsmen and fishermen from Japanese, ...
James R. Paine, 1991
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Thirteen Bones
He proposed that the WPHC create new coconut-growing communities in the Phoenix Islands. No doubt wondering whether his supervisors would balk at the acronym, he called it the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme (PISS). The PISS was ...
Tom King, 2009
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Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands
This is the area of the Phoenix Islands, which extends also to the southern Gilberts and northern Tuvalu. Since they are low islands, they have no appreciable orographic rainfall. As a consequence, they suffer from unpredictable rainfall.
Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Francis Raymond Fosberg, 1998
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World War 2 Pacific Island Guide
Christmas Island was added in 1925 and the Phoenix Islands followed in 1937. The Gilberts and Ellices were discovered piecemeal between 1764 and 1824, largely by British explorers. The Gilberts were named after one of these, a Royal  ...
Gordon L. Rottman, 2002
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The World Factbook 2009
... Gilbert Islands group (UTC +12) even though the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands under its jurisdiction were on the other side of the International Date Line Geographic coordinates: 1 25 N, 173 00 E Map references: Oceania Area: total: ...
Central Intelligence Agency
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Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global ...
48 Maude “Report on Colonization,” 5-9, 15-16, 18; Maude, “Colonization of the Phoenix Islands,” 328; P. B. Laxton, “Nikumaroro,” journal of the Polynesian Society 60 (1951): 1 3 6. 49 Maude “Report on Colonization,” 10-13, 28-32; Maude, ...
Gregory T. Cushman, 2013
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Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved
... 2 degrees, 30 minutes north, longitude 177 degrees west—at daybreak on 13 July. “Point origin” was approximately 100 miles north-northwest of Howland Island. In the Phoenix Islands aboard the battleship Colorado, at 0700 Saturday ...
Elgen M. Long, Marie K. Long, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHOENIX ISLANDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Phoenix Islands is used in the context of the following news items.
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University of San Diego Student Embarks on Research Expedition at …
... Jiaravanon from San Marino is currently sailing with SEA Semester aboard one of the first scientific research voyages to the Phoenix Islands, ... «ReadMedia, Jul 15»
2
Weston resident to explore Phoenix Islands in program
Maggie Chory of Weston is enrolled in the summer program “Protecting the Phoenix Islands,” a study abroad program through Sea Education ... «Wicked Local Weston, Jul 15»
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Honouring the memory of the Rainbow Warrior
The successful closure of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) to tuna fishing earlier this year in a longstanding partnership between ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Is a Cure in Sight for the Ocean's Dying Coral?
The Phoenix Islands, a smattering of eight tiny atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that include large reef-based ecosystems — and a ... «One Green Planet, Jun 15»
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Hokule'a crews head underwater to explore the Great Barrier Reef
They had also hoped to make it to a marine preserve in the Phoenix Islands last year, but the wind didn't allow them to make the journey ... «Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Jun 15»
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2015 Pacific Day Seminar
In addition to commitments by Palau, Kiribati announced a ban on commercial fishing in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area – and the Cook ... «US Department of State, Jun 15»
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6 Signs Our Oceans May be on the Path to Recovery Thanks to …
And the nation of Kiribati closed its Phoenix Islands Protected Area to commercial fishing at the start of this year. More marine protected area ... «One Green Planet, Jun 15»
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Why it matters to keep the world's oceans pure and clean
A blacktip reef shark swims over a healthy coral reef within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) off the Republic of Kiribati on June 14, ... «Mashable, Jun 15»
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Check Out Google's New Tool For Monitoring Global Fishing
... using the example of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, which was closed to fishing in January 2015. Their tracking showed that ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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UNESCO's Great Barrier Reef Decision Has Much Wider Ramifications
... Lord Howe, Ningaloo Reef of Western Australia, Papahānaumokuākea in Hawaii, Phoenix islands of Kiribati, and the Rock Islands of Palau. «The Diplomat, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Phoenix Islands [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phoenix-islands>. May 2024 ».
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