Birnie Island
Birnie Island is a small, uninhabited coral island, 20 hectares in area, part of the Phoenix Island group, that is part of the Republic of Kiribati. It is located about 100 kilometres southeast of Kanton Island and 90 kilometres west-northwest of Rawaki Island, formerly known as Phoenix Island.Photo: Joann94024, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kiribati
- Also known as: “Birdie Atoll”
Birnie Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-3.585° or 3° 35′ 6″ southLongitude
-171.5174° or 171° 31′ 3″ westOpen location code
628CCF8M+22OpenStreetMap ID
way 22382908OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Birnie Island” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Бэрні”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Бэрні”
- Catalan: “Birnie”
- Catalan: “Illa Birnie”
- Cebuano: “Birnie Island (pulong kagaangan)”
- Cebuano: “Birnie Island”
- Chinese: “伯尼岛”
- Chinese: “伯尼島”
- Croatian: “Birnie”
- Dutch: “Birnie”
- Estonian: “Birnie atoll”
- Estonian: “Birnie saar”
- Estonian: “Birnie”
- Finnish: “Birnie”
- French: “Birnie”
- French: “Île Birnie”
- Galician: “Illa Birnie”
- German: “Birnie Island”
- German: “Birnie”
- Greek: “Μπίρνι Νήσος”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μπίρνι”
- Hebrew: “בירני”
- Italian: “Birnie”
- Japanese: “バーニー島”
- Korean: “버니섬”
- Macedonian: “Бирни”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birnie”
- Norwegian: “Birnie”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Birnie”
- Russian: “Бирни”
- Spanish: “Birnie”
- Spanish: “Isla Birnie”
- Swedish: “Birnieatollen”
- Turkish: “Birnie Adası”
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