Kiribati · Kiribati
Tabuaeran
Fanning Island, once a Pacific cable station.
- Population
- 1,990 (2020)
- Cable station
- 1902
Then
- 1798
Edmund Fanning sights the atoll on June 11.
- 1888
Britain annexes it.
- 1902
A station on the Canada–Australia telegraph cable opens.
Now
The Napari airstrip reopened in 2016 with flights to Kiritimati.