 Satellite imagery of Banaba Island from Google Earth. Banaba Island (also Ocean Island), an island in the Pacific Ocean, lies west of the Gilbert Island chain and east of Nauru. It forms part of the Republic of Kiribati. The highest point on the island is also the highest point in Kiribati, at 81 meters (266 feet) high. Together with Nauru and Makatea, it is one of the great phosphate rocks of the Pacific. Image File history File links Ocean_Island. ...
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The Gilbert Islands are a chain of 16 atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the nation Kiribati. ...
Above is a ball-and-stick model of the inorganic phosphate molecule (HPO42−). Colour coding: P (orange); O (red); H (white). ...
History
According to "Te Rii Ni Banaba—The Backbone of Banaba" by Raobeia Ken Sigrah, Banaban oral history supports the claim that the Te Aka clan, which originated in Melanesia, were the original inhabitants of Banaba (Ocean Island), having arrived before the arrival of later migrations from the East Indies and Kiribati. Name Banaba in local tongues meant "stony". Sigrah makes the controversial (and politically-loaded) assertion that Banabans are ethnically distinct from other I-Kiribati, and scientific evidence supports the fact that the te Aka were not of Polynesian orgins. The Banabans were assimilated only through forced migrations and the impact of the discovery of phosphate in 1900. It used to be 4 villages - Oomu, Tabianga, Tapiva, Buakonikai. Ken Sigrah Raobeia Raobeia Ken Sigrah, or Ken Sigrah Raobeia, is the clan spokesperson for the Banaban people living on Rabi, Fiji. ...
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Phosphate-mining (for fertiliser) from 1900 to 1979 stripped away 90% of the island's surface. The British authorities relocated most of the population to Rabi Island, Fiji after 1945, with subsequent waves of migration in 1977 and 1981-1983. Some have subsequently returned, following the end of mining in 1979; approximately 200 were living on the island in 2001. Globally, there are an estimated 6000 individuals of Banaban descent.[1] On Rabi Island the names of settlements are the same 4 authentic from Banaba Island. Above is a ball-and-stick model of the inorganic phosphate molecule (HPO42−). Colour coding: P (orange); O (red); H (white). ...
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Politics Banaba Island is a political anomaly. Despite being part of Kiribati, its municipal administration is by the Rabi Council of Leaders and Elders, which is based on Rabi Island, in Fiji. The Rabi Council of Leaders and Elders is the municipal body administering Rabi Island, in Fiji. ...
On 19 December 2005, Teitirake Corrie, the Rabi Island Council's representative to the Parliament of Kiribati, said that the Rabi Council was considering giving the right to remine Banaba Island to the government of Fiji. This followed the disappointment of the Rabi Islanders at the refusal of the Vanuatu Parliament to grant a portion of the A$614 million trust fund from phosphate proceeds to elderly Rabi islanders. Corrie asserted that Banaba is the property of their descendants who live on Rabi, not of the Kiribati government, asserting that, "The trust fund also belongs to us even though we do not live in Kiribati". He condemned the Kiribati government's policy of not paying the islanders. December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Rabi Council of Leaders and Elders is the municipal body administering Rabi Island, in Fiji. ...
The House of Assembly of Kiribati (official constitutional name: Maneaba ni Maungatabu) has 42 members, 40 elected for a four year term in single-seat and multi-seat constituencies, 1 delegate from Banaba Island and 1 ex-officio member (the Attorney General). ...
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On 23 December, Reteta Rimon, Kiribati's High Commissioner to Fiji, clarified that Rabi Islanders were, in fact, entitled to Kiribati government benefits - but only if they returned to Kiribati. She called for negotiations between the Rabi Council of Leaders and the Kiribati government. December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ...
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The constitution promulgated at independence on July 12, 1979, establishes Kiribati as a sovereign democratic republic and guarantees the fundamental rights of its citizens. ...
The Rabi Council of Leaders and Elders is the municipal body administering Rabi Island, in Fiji. ...
On New Year's Day of 2006, Corrie called for Banaba to secede from Kiribati and join Fiji. Kiribati was using Banaban phosphate money for its own enrichment, he said; of the five thousand Banabans in Fiji, there were fewer than one hundred aged seventy or more who would be claiming pensions. (Redirected from 1 January) January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
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Future prospects The stated wish of the Kiribati government to reopen mining on Banaba is strongly opposed by many in the Banaban diaspora.
Some of the leaders of the displaced Banaban community in Fiji have called for Banaba to be granted independence. One reason given for the maintenance of a community on Banaba, at a monthly cost of F$12,000, is that if the island were to become uninhabited, the Kiribati government might take over the administration of the island, and integrate it with the rest of the country. Kiribati is believed to be anxious to retain Banaba, in the hope of remining it in the future. Additionally, it is the only island in Kiribati that is not a low-lying coral atoll and less susceptible to rising sea levels. The Fijian dollar is the currency of Fiji. ...
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References - ^ Fiji Times, 27 December 2005
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