Line Islands
The Line Islands, also known as the Teraina Islands or the Equatorial Islands, are a chain of 11 atolls and coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Calvin Smith, CC BY 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kiritimati and Tabuaeran.
Kiritimati
Photo: Calvin Smith, CC BY 2.0.
Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island has the largest land area of any coral atoll in the world and by itself represents the majority of the land area of Kiribati.
Tabuaeran
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Tabuaeran, also known as Fanning Island or Fanning Atoll, is one of the Northern Line Islands in Kiribati.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include London and Paris.
London
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
London is a village in Kiribati, located on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands. It is the administrative capital of Kiritimati.
Paris
Locality
Paris is an abandoned settlement in Kiribati, located on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands.
Line Islands
- Type: archipelago with 8,810 residents
- Description: chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean
- Category: island group
- Location: Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Line Islands” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “መስመር ደሴቶች”
- Arabic: “جزر الخط”
- Arabic: “جزر لاين”
- Azerbaijani: “Xətt adaları”
- Basque: “Lerroko uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Лайн”
- Belarusian: “Лайн”
- Bengali: “লাইন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Linijska ostrva”
- Breton: “Inizi al Linenn”
- Bulgarian: “Лайн”
- Catalan: “Espòrades Equatorials”
- Catalan: “illes de la Línia”
- Catalan: “Illes de la Línia”
- Catalan: “Illes Line”
- Cebuano: “Line Islands (kapuloan)”
- Cebuano: “Line Islands”
- Chinese: “Line Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “线岛群岛”
- Chinese: “線島群島”
- Chinese: “莱恩群岛”
- Chinese: “萊恩群島”
- Croatian: “Ekvatorski otoci”
- Czech: “Liniové ostrovy”
- Danish: “Linje-øerne”
- Dutch: “Line eilanden”
- Dutch: “Line-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Liniaj Insuloj”
- Estonian: “Ekvaatorisaared”
- Estonian: “Line’i saared”
- Estonian: “Line´i saared”
- Finnish: “Line-saaret”
- Finnish: “Linesaaret”
- French: “Île de la Ligne centrale”
- French: “Îles de la ligne du Nord”
- French: “Îles de la Ligne du Sud”
- French: “Iles de la Ligne”
- French: “îles de la Ligne”
- French: “Îles de la Ligne”
- French: “Line Islands”
- French: “Sporades australes”
- French: “Sporades boréales”
- French: “Sporades équatoriales”
- Galician: “Espóradas Ecuatoriais”
- Galician: “Illas da Liña”
- Georgian: “ლაინის კუნძულები”
- German: “Fanninginseln”
- German: “Line Islands”
- German: “Linie-Inseln”
- German: “Linieinseln”
- German: “Linieninseln”
- German: “Zentralpolynesische Sporaden”
- Greek: “Νησιά Γραμμής Ισημερινού”
- Greek: “Νησιά Γραμμής του Ισημερινού”
- Hausa: “Tsibiran Line”
- Hebrew: “איי ליין”
- Icelandic: “Línueyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Line”
- Italian: “Isole della Linea”
- Italian: “Isole Sporadi equatoriali”
- Italian: “Sporadi equatoriali”
- Italian: “Sporadi Equatoriali”
- Japanese: “ラインアイランド”
- Japanese: “ライン諸島”
- Javanese: “Kepulauan Garis”
- Kazakh: “Сызық аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Лайн”
- Kirghiz: “Сызык аралдары”
- Korean: “라인 제도”
- Latvian: “Lainas salas”
- Limburgan: “Line-eilenj”
- Lithuanian: “Linijinės salos”
- Macedonian: “Линиски Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Garis”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Line”
- Malayalam: “ലൈൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Sòaⁿ Kûn-tó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sòaⁿ Kûn-tó”
- Mingrelian: “ლაინიშ კოკეფი”
- Northern Frisian: “Line Islands”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Linjeøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lineøyane”
- Norwegian: “Linjeøyene”
- Oromo: “Galicha Sarara”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਈਨ ਦੀਪ”
- Persian: “جزایر خط”
- Persian: “جزایر لاین”
- Polish: “Line Islands”
- Polish: “Wyspy Line”
- Portuguese: “Espórades Equatoriais”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas da linha”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas da Linha”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas line”
- Pushto: “د لاین جزیرې”
- Romanian: “Insulele Line”
- Russian: “Лайн”
- Russian: “Острова Лайн”
- Russian: “Центральные Полинезийские Спорады”
- Scots: “Line Islands”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ekvatorska ostrva”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ekvatorski otoci”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Linijski otoci”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrva Lajn”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otoci Line”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otočje Line”
- Sinhala: “ලයින් දූපත්”
- Slovak: “Line Islands”
- Slovak: “Líniové ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Ekvatorski otoki”
- Somali: “Jasiiradaha Xariijka”
- Spanish: “Esporadas Ecuatoriales”
- Spanish: “Espóradas Ecuatoriales”
- Spanish: “Islas de la linea”
- Spanish: “Islas de la Línea”
- Spanish: “Line Islands”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Mstari”
- Swedish: “Line Islands”
- Swedish: “Lineöarna”
- Swedish: “Linjeöarna”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Хат”
- Tamil: “இலைன் தீவுகள்”
- Tamil: “லைன் தீவுகள்”
- Tatar: “Лайн утраулары”
- Tatar: “Сызык аралдары”
- Turkish: “Line Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Лайн”
- Uzbek: “Chiziq orollari”
- Uzbek: “Layn”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy Polineziya Sporada orollari”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy Polineziya Sporada Orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Line”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Teraina”
- Yue Chinese: “萊恩群島”
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