Kan·ton Island

or Can·ton Island (kăn′tŏn′, kăn′tŏn′, -tən)

A coral atoll of the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. An important aviation way station under Anglo-American control from 1939, Kanton became part of independent Kiribati in 1979.

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5.1a), including Jarvis Island (0[degrees]22'S, 160[degrees]01'W), Howland Island (0[degrees]48'N, 176[degrees]37'W), Baker Island (0[degrees]12'N, 176[degrees]29'W), and Kanton Island (2[degrees]50'S, 171[degrees]40'W), support healthy, resilient coral reef ecosystems characterized by exceptionally high biomass of planktivorous and piscivorous reef fishes due to the combined effects of equatorial and topographic upwelling (Gove et al.

5. ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF THE 2015/16 EL NINO IN THE CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC: Coral reef and seabird communities in the central equatorial Pacific were disrupted by record-setting sea surface temperatures, linked to an anthropogenically forced trend, during the 2015/16 El Nino

We come to all the international human rights organizations and news companies to fully look for the truth of what is happening in Tal Abyad and all the other regions in Kanton Island, to verify of the truth of these accusations ...

Kurdish fighters' statement on allegations of 'ethnic cleansing'

Alex Bond, 46, was delivering a yacht from Hawaii to Australia when he stopped off at Kanton Island and was met by desperate islanders with little food.

Brit rescues 24 starving islanders; LIFESAVER

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