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Banaba
Ocean Island, mined away for phosphate.
- Population
- 268 (2015)
- Mining
- 1900–1979
Then
- 1900–1979
Phosphate mining strips about 90 percent of the island.
- 1945
Japanese troops kill all but one of 200 remaining Banabans on August 20.
- 1945
Most Banabans are moved to Rabi Island in Fiji.
Now
About 6,000 people of Banaban descent live abroad.