2 small airplanes fly out the Gilbert Islands, except for Banaba. One merchant ship connects, from time to time, the Line Islands (Kiritimati

Kiritimati

Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean raised coral atoll in the northern Line Islands, and part of the Republic of Kiribati....

, Fanning and Washington) and makes stops en route at the Phoenix Islands.

There are 670km of highways in Kiribati (1996 est.) of which 27km are paved in South Tarawa (2001). There are no railways in Kiribati.

Water transport

Ports and harbours include Banaba, Betio, English Harbor, and Kanton. There is a small network of canals, totaling 5 km, in the Line Islands

Line Islands

The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest islands chains of the world...

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The Merchant marine includes 1 ship of 1,000 GRT or over.

Airports

As of 2010, there are 23 airports in Kiribati, of which 4 have paved runways, the only international ones being Bonriki International Airport

Bonriki International Airport

-See also:* USAAF in the Central Pacific...

 and Cassidy International Airport

Cassidy International Airport

Cassidy International Airport is an airport located north of Banana, a settlement on Kiritimati in Kiribati. It is the only airport in the Kiribatian part of the Line Islands with an IATA and/or ICAO code....

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