This is a list of all of the islands of Kiribati. The Republic of Kiribati consists of 32 atolls and one raised coral island. These islands are dispersed throughout the three island groups that form Kiribati:
All but one island, sparsely populated Canton Island, in the Phoenix group are uninhabited. The remaining Phoenix Islands make up the Phoenix Islands Marine Protected Area, which is the third largest marine protected area in the world. [1]
| Image | Island (Previous name) [4] | Land area (km2) [5] | Lagoon area (km2) | Coordinates | Type | Population (2020) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Millennium Island (Caroline Island) | 3.76 | 2.5 | 9°56′13.13″S150°12′0″W / 9.9369806°S 150.20000°W | Atoll | 0 |
 | Flint Island | 3.2 | 0 | 11°25′48″S151°49′0″W / 11.43000°S 151.81667°W | Coral island | 0 |
 | Kiritimati (Christmas Island) | 384.4 | 324 | 1°53′0″N157°24′0″W / 1.88333°N 157.40000°W | Atoll | 7,369 [3] |
 | Malden Island | 39.3 | ? | 4°03′0″S154°59′0″W / 4.05000°S 154.98333°W | Atoll | 0 |
 | Starbuck Island | 16.2 | 25 | 5°37′0″S155°56′0″W / 5.61667°S 155.93333°W | Atoll | 0 |
 | Tabuaeran (Fanning Island) | 33.7 | 110 | 3°52′0″N159°22′0″W / 3.86667°N 159.36667°W | Atoll | 1,990 [3] |
 | Teraina (Washington Island) | 14.2 | 0 (enclosed lake) | 4°43′0″N160°24′0″W / 4.71667°N 160.40000°W | Atoll | 1,893 [3] |
| Vostok Island | 0.24 | 0 | 10°06′0″S152°25′0″W / 10.10000°S 152.41667°W | Atoll | 0 | |
| 495 | 461.5 | 11,252 |
| Image | Island (Previous name) [4] | Land area (km2) [5] | Lagoon area (km2) | Coordinates | Type | Population (2020) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Canton Island | 9.1 | 50 | 2°50′0″S171°40′0″W / 2.83333°S 171.66667°W | Atoll | 41 [3] |
| Birnie Island | 0.2 | ? | 03°35′0″S171°33′0″W / 3.58333°S 171.55000°W | Atoll | 0 | |
 | Enderbury Island | 5.1 | ? | 3°08′0″S171°05′0″W / 3.13333°S 171.08333°W | Atoll | 0 |
 | Manra Island (Sydney Island) | 4.4 | ? | 4°27′0″S171°16′0″W / 4.45000°S 171.26667°W | Atoll | 0 |
| McKean Island | 0.57 | ? | 03°36′0″S174°08′0″W / 3.60000°S 174.13333°W | Atoll | 0 | |
 | Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) | 4.1 | 4 | 04°40′0″S174°31′0″W / 4.66667°S 174.51667°W | Atoll | 0 |
 | Orona (Hull Island) | 3.9 | 30 | 04°30′0″S172°10′0″W / 4.50000°S 172.16667°W | Atoll | 0 |
 | Rawaki Island (Phoenix Island) | 0.5 | 0.5 | 03°43′0″S170°43′0″W / 3.71667°S 170.71667°W | Atoll | 0 |
| 27.87 | 84.5 | 41 |
| Image | Island (Previous name) [4] | Land area (km2) [5] | Lagoon area (km2) | Coordinates | Type | Population (2020) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Banaba (Ocean Island) | 6 | 0 | 0°51′34″S169°32′13″E / 0.85944°S 169.53694°E | Raised coral | 333 [3] |
| 6 | 0 | 333 |
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, with more than half living on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is 811 km2 (313 sq mi) dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean.
Kiribati consists of 32 atolls and one island in an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the contiguous United States. The islands are scattered such that Kiribati has territory located in each of the four hemispheres. The islands of Kiribati lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia in the Micronesian and Polynesian regions of the South Pacific. The three main island groupings are the Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands. On 1 January 1995 Kiribati moved the International Date Line to include its easternmost islands and make it the same day throughout the country.
The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands are a chain of 11 atolls and coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands. Eight of the atolls are parts of Kiribati. The remaining three—Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll—are territories of the United States grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. The Line Islands, all of which were formed by volcanic activity, are one of the longest island chains in the world, stretching 2,350 km (1,460 mi) from northwest to southeast. One of them, Starbuck Island, is near the geographic center of the Pacific Ocean. Another, Kiritimati, has the largest land area of any atoll in the world. Only Kiritimati, Tabuaeran, and Teraina have a permanent population. Besides the 11 confirmed atolls and islands, Filippo Reef is shown on some maps, but its existence is doubted.
The Phoenix Islands, or Rawaki, are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs that lie east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa. They are part of the Republic of Kiribati. Their combined land area is 28 square kilometres (11 sq mi). The only island of any commercial importance is Canton Island. The other islands are Enderbury, Rawaki, Manra, Birnie, McKean, Nikumaroro, and Orona.
Enderbury Island, also known as Ederbury Island or Guano Island, is a small, uninhabited atoll 63 km ESE of Kanton Island in the Pacific Ocean at 3°08′S171°05′W. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and 3 miles (4.8 km) long, with a reef stretching out 60–200 metres. Forming a part of the Canton and Enderbury Islands condominium from 1939 to 1979, the island is now a possession of the Republic of Kiribati.
The Amirante Islands are a group of coral islands and atolls that belong to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
The Farquhar Atoll is part of the Farquhar Group of islands in the Seychelles, part of the Outer Islands chain. It is located 770 kilometres southwest of Mahé Island and the capital, Victoria, 258 km (160 mi) north of Madagascar, and around 1,000 km (621 mi) from the East African mainland.
Abemama (Apamama) is an atoll, one of the Gilberts group in Kiribati, and is located 152 kilometres southeast of Tarawa and just north of the Equator. Abemama has an area of 27.37 square kilometres and a population of 3,299 as of 2015. The islets surround a deep lagoon. The eastern part of the atoll of Abemama is linked together by causeways making automobile traffic possible between the different islets. The outlying islands of Abatiku and Biike are situated on the southwestern side of the atoll.
The Aminidivi Islands are one of the three island subgroups in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India. It is the northern group of the Lakshadweep, separated from the Laccadive Islands subgroup roughly by the 11th parallel north. The total land area of the group is 9.26 km2.
Birnie Island is a small, uninhabited coral island, 20 hectares in area, part of the Phoenix Island group, that is part of the Republic of Kiribati. It is located about 100 kilometres southeast of Kanton Island and 90 kilometres west-northwest of Rawaki Island, formerly known as Phoenix Island. It lies at 03°35′S171°33′W. Birnie Island measures only 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) long and 0.5 kilometres (0.3 mi) wide. There is no anchorage, but landing can be made on the lee shore.
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument is a group of unorganized, mostly unincorporated United States Pacific Island territories managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States Department of Commerce. These remote refuges are "the most widespread collection of marine- and terrestrial-life protected areas on the planet under a single country's jurisdiction". They protect many endemic species including corals, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, seabirds, water birds, land birds, insects, and vegetation not found elsewhere.
McKean Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Its area is 57 hectares.
Orona atoll, also known as Hull Island, is one of the Phoenix Islands in the Republic of Kiribati. It measures approximately 8.8 km (5 mi) by 4 km (2 mi), and like Kanton, is a narrow ribbon of land surrounding a sizable lagoon with depths of 15–20 metres (49–66 ft). Numerous passages connect the lagoon to the surrounding ocean, only a couple of which will admit even a small boat. Total land area is 3.9 km2 (2 sq mi), and the maximum elevation is nine metres.
Rawaki is one of the Phoenix Islands in the Republic of Kiribati, also known by its previous name of Phoenix Island. It is a small, uninhabited atoll, approximately 1.2 by 0.8 kilometres in size and 65 hectares in area, with a shallow, brackish lagoon that is not connected to the open sea. It is located at 3.721°S 170.712°W.
Howland Island and Baker Island are two uninhabited U.S. atolls in the Equatorial Pacific that are located close to one another. Both islands are wildlife refuges, the larger of which is Howland Island. They are both part of the larger political territory of the United States Minor Outlying Islands and they are also both part of the larger geographic grouping of the Phoenix Islands. Each is a National Wildlife Refuge managed by a division of Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On January 6, 2009, U.S. President George W. Bush included both islands to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is located in the Republic of Kiribati, an ocean nation in the central Pacific approximately midway between Australia and Hawaii. PIPA constitutes 11.34% of Kiribati's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and with a size of 408,250 km2 (157,630 sq mi), it is one of the largest marine protected areas (MPA) and one of the largest protected areas of any type on Earth. The PIPA was also designated as the world's largest and deepest UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.
The Coral reefs of Kiribati consists of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba, which is an isolated island between Nauru and the Gilbert Islands. The islands of Kiribati are dispersed over 3.5 million km2 (1.4 million sq mi) of the Pacific Ocean and straddle the equator and the 180th meridian, extending into the eastern and western hemispheres, as well as the northern and southern hemispheres. 21 of the 33 islands are inhabited. The groups of islands of Kiribati are:
Protected areas of Kiribati include marine protected areas managed by the Environment and Conservation Division, of the Kiribati Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development. Kiribati, in partnership with the New England Aquarium and Conservation International (CI), manages the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), which is a World Heritage Site that was established in 2006, and is the second largest of the world's marine protected areas. The U.S. administered Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument is currently the world's largest designated marine protected area (MPA), and is to the north and north-east of the PIPA.
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