Kiribati · Kiribati

Kanton

A flying-boat stop, now the only lived-on Phoenix island.

Population
41 (2020)
Pan Am arrives
1939

Then

  1. 1939

    The US and Britain agree to share the island. Pan Am builds a flying-boat base.

  2. 2008

    The Phoenix Islands Protected Area is created.

Now

Kanton is the only inhabited Phoenix island.

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