Crossword clues for kiribati
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
island nation in the Pacific, formerly Gilbert Islands and named for Capt. Thomas Gilbert, who arrived there 1788 after helping transport the first shipload of convicts to Australia. At independence in 1979 it took the current name, which represents the local pronunciation of Gilbert. Christmas Island, named for the date it was discovered by Europeans, is in the chain and now goes by Kiritimati, likewise a local pronunciation of the English name.
Wikipedia
Kiribati (; or ; ), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), is an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. The nation comprises 33 atolls and reef islands and one raised coral island; Banaba. They have a total land area of and are dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres (1,351,000 square miles). Their spread straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, although the International Date Line is indented to bring the Line Islands in the same day as the Kiribati Islands. The permanent population is just over 100,000 (2011), more than half of whom live on Tarawa Atoll.
Kiribati became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. The capital and now most populated area, South Tarawa, consists of a number of islets, connected by a series of causeways. These comprise about half the area of Tarawa Atoll.
Kiribati is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the United Nations in 1999.
Kiribati may refer to:
- Kiribati, a nation in the Pacific Ocean.
- I-Kiribati, a person from Kiribati, or of Kiribati descent, see Demographics of Kiribati
- Kiribati language
- Kiribati Way, a road in Lancashire, England
Usage examples of "kiribati".
As long as Kiribati did not sign the treaty, Moonbase could legally continue using nanomachines, which were as vital to Moonbase as air.
Tell the flatlanders down there that we no longer belong to Kiribati Corporation or any company or government on Earth.
Send it by laser to Kiribati and to Masterson Corporation's headquarters in Savannah.
There is nothing else for me to do, now that Kiribati no longer takes our transmissions.
Yes, the media executives he had spoken with knew that Masterson still controlled Moonbase, despite the legal fiction that the base was owned by the Kiribati Corporation.
As chairwoman of the board of the Kiribati Corporation, her responsibilities to her people were many and weighty.
Without waiting for her to reply, he added, In the meantime, it occurred to me that Kiribati might broadcast the video in your hotels—maybe even bounce it off your commsats so the rest of the Pacific nations can see it.
But once Kiribati broke the blackout, Global and the other networks broke their agreements with me.
Faure almost snarled,'that the Kiribati Corporation was under your control.
The Kiribati police certainly took their sweet time getting out to the islet to find her body.
Nominally, the files belonged to the Kiribati Corporation, but it was apparently a simple thing for Rashid to appropriate them through Masterson's computers.
Seven years earlier, when it became clear that the United States would sign the treaty - indeed, American nanoluddites had drafted the treaty - Masterson Corporation had set up a dummy company on the island nation of Kiribati and transferred Moonbase to the straw-man corporation.
But the day after Tamara Bonai, chief of the Kiribati council, reluctantly signed the nanotech treaty, the U.
Moonbase marketed its diamond Clipperships and other exports to transportation companies on Earth through Kiribati Corporation.
Lunar University's courses had been beamed to Kiribati for distribution to students around the world.