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Aranuka

Aranuka (also previously known as Henderville, Nonouki or Starbuck) is an atoll

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
of Kiribati

Kiribati

Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It is composed of List of islands belonging to Kiribati and one Tectonic uplift island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, straddling the equator, and bordering the International Date Line to the east....
, located just north of the equator

Equator

The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the Plane perpendicular to the Earth's rotation and containing the Earth's center of mass....
, in the Gilbert Islands

Gilbert Islands

The Gilbert Islands are a chain of 16 atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are the main part of the Republic of Kiribati and include Tarawa, the site of the country's capital and residence of almost half of the population....
. It has an area of 15.5 square kilometers and a population of 852 Gilbertese.
ome point between 1860 and the late 1880s, Aranuka was conquered by Tenkoruti, king of Abemama

Abemama

Abemama is an atoll in the central part of the Kiribati Group located 152 kilometres southeast of Tarawa Atoll and just north of the Equator....
. It was then ruled by Tenkoruti's nephew, Tembinok'

Tembinok'

Tembinok? was the ruler of Abemama, Aranuka and Kuria , in the Gilbert Islands, during the late 19th century. He was immortalised by Robert Louis Stevenson's description of him in his book In the South Seas....
.

atoll has a triangular shape, predominantly formed by two large island

Island

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Aranuka (also previously known as Henderville, Nonouki or Starbuck) is an atoll

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
of Kiribati

Kiribati

Equator

The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the Plane perpendicular to the Earth's rotation and containing the Earth's center of mass....
, in the Gilbert Islands

Gilbert Islands

History

At some point between 1860 and the late 1880s, Aranuka was conquered by Tenkoruti, king of Abemama

Abemama

Tembinok'

Geography

The atoll has a triangular shape, predominantly formed by two large island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s, unusually large for an atoll of this size. The largest being Buariki which creates the "base" of the triangle, and the smallest being Takaeang

Takaeang

Takaeang is the second largest island in the Aranuka atoll of Kiribati. It helps form the triangular shape of the atoll by forming the top corner of the triangle. It is connected to the larger island, Buariki , by a sandbank....
which forms the top corner. These islands are connected by long sandbanks on the northern side and an underwater reef crest on the southern side which also has a wide pass to the lagoon

Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
in the centre.

Transportation

Air

Aranuka Airport

Aranuka Airport is an airport, located approximately one kilometre north of the centre of Buariki on the island of Buariki , Aranuka, Kiribati....
is located on top corner of Buariki.