The capital, South Tarawa, is located on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The small sized place has an interesting history too. The islands have been inhabited for thousands of years by ...

It is made up of 33 atolls and reef islands, along with one raised coral island. The country is divided into three main ...

They have predicted that Tarawa atoll, the nation’s capital, will become uninhabitable within a generation. But many I-Kiribati refuse to think of their homeland as a “disappearing island ...

The maneuver schemes "for the landing of the assault waves at Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll brought forth the most comprehensive landing attack orders promulgated up to that date in the Pacific ...

But this was like saying hello." It was within the Tarawa atoll, on a tropical sandbar the size of the National Mall, where U.S. Marines and Navy sailors confronted the forces of an emboldened ...

The remains were discovered in March on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, which was the scene of a three-day battle with the Japanese in November 1943. US defence department officials plan to transport ...