Kiribati · Kiribati

Caroline Island

Millennium Island, one of the most pristine on Earth.

Eclipse expedition
1883
Renamed
1997

Then

  1. 1883

    Two expeditions come to watch the May 6 eclipse.

  2. 1987–1991

    One family lives here self-sufficiently.

  3. 1997

    Kiribati renames it Millennium Island.

Now

It is uninhabited, inside a fishing exclusion zone.

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