Nikumaroro - Wikipedia
Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon .
Nikumaroro Island – Kiribati - Atlas Obscura
2013年7月23日 · Nikumaroro (known to its friends as Niku) is a coral atoll about 4.5 miles long and 1.5 miles wide. Its reef supports a rich diversity of animal life, though it has experienced bleaching episodes...
Why This Island Is at the Center of the Search for Amelia Earhart
2017年6月30日 · Nikumaroro is a coral reef on top of a subsiding volcano, a narrow ring of land around a lagoon. Only four and a half miles long and one and a half miles wide, the island appears on...
Nikumaroro Atoll - NASA Earth Observatory
2018年3月26日 · It is one of the most famous patches of coral outside of the Great Barrier Reef. Stretching a mere 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) by 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) and surrounded by deep ocean, it is barely a speck on world maps.
Nikumaroro Atoll - Tropical Islands
2023年3月2日 · Nikumaroro Atoll (or Nikumaroro Island) is an atoll in Kiribati, in central-west Pacific. It is a triangular-shaped atoll, that looks like a single flat island encircling a large lagoon in the middle. That is why it is also called just Nikumaroro Island. Its …
Nikumaroro Atoll Aerial short film 4K - YouTube
Aerial footage from the 2018 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Expedition to Nikumaroro Atoll, Kiribati.This remote Pacific Atoll is part of the Phoenix Isl...
Nikumaroro Map - Island - Phoenix Islands, Kiribati - Mapcarta
Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon.
Voyage to the Remote Phoenix Islands - Woods Hole …
2009年10月16日 · The coral atoll of Nikumaroro is one of the Phoenix Islands in the western equatorial Pacific. Atolls are low ring-shaped islands of coral rubble that form over millennia as coral reefs grow around volcanic islands that sink, leaving the coral ring exposed.
Nikumaroro Atoll - Science@NASA
Nikumaroro Atoll. It is one of the most famous patches of coral outside of the Great Barrier Reef. Stretching a mere 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) by 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) and surrounded by deep ocean, it is barely a speck on world maps.
Nikumaroro | atoll, Pacific Ocean | Britannica
Nikumaroro. atoll, Pacific Ocean. Also known as: Gardner. Learn about this topic in these articles: Phoenix Islands. In Phoenix Islands. (Phoenix), Manra (Sydney), McKean, Nikumaroro (Gardner), Birnie, Orona (Hull), Kanton (Canton), and Enderbury atolls. They have a total land area of approximately 11 square miles (29 square km).