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Bikeman Island

Bikeman Island is a submerged islet about a half-hour's canoe ride northeast of , . Due to changing currents and the construction of a causeway between Betio and , Bikeman has been submerged since the early 1990s.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ambo and South Tarawa.

Village
Photo: jopolopy, CC BY 3.0.
is a village.

Town
Photo: Inkey, CC BY 3.0.
is the capital and hub of the and home to more than half of Kiribati's population. The population centre consists of all the small islets from in the west to and Tanaea in the north-east, connected by the main road, with a population of 63,439 as of 2020.

Village
Photo: Arorae, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town and settlement in of . It is part of a nearly continuous chain of settlements along the islands of , which are now linked by causeways, between and .

Bikeman Island

Latitude
1.39333° or 1° 23′ 36″ north
Longitude
172.99579° or 172° 59′ 45″ east
Open location code
6VHJ9XVW+88
Open­Street­Map ID
way 208701607
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2110243
Wiki­data ID
Q544297
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Satellite Map

Discover Bikeman Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bikeman Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Bikeman Bank”
  • Chinese: “拜克曼岛”
  • Chinese: “拜克曼島”
  • Dutch: “Bikeman Island”
  • French: “Bikeman”
  • German: “Bikeman”
  • Italian: “Bikeman”
  • Portuguese: “Bikeman”
  • Spanish: “Bikeman Island”
  • Swedish: “Bikeman Bank”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Antebuka Village and Banraeaba.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bikeman Island”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 3.0.