Canton Island
Canton Island, previously known as Mary Island, Mary Balcout's Island or Swallow Island, is the largest, northernmost, and as of 2020, the sole inhabited island of the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: atoll with 41 residents
- Description: atoll in the South Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Abariringa Island”, “Kanton Island”, “Mary Balcout’s Island”, and “Mary Island”
Canton Island
- Location: Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, Polynesia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Canton Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Kanton”
- Belarusian: “Абарырынга”
- Belarusian: “Атол Абарырынга”
- Belarusian: “Атол Кантон”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кантон”
- Catalan: “Abariringa”
- Catalan: “Canton Island”
- Catalan: “illa Canton”
- Catalan: “Illa Canton”
- Catalan: “Kanton Island”
- Catalan: “Kanton”
- Cebuano: “Kanton Island”
- Chinese: “坎頓島”
- Chinese: “阿巴里靈阿環礁”
- Croatian: “Abariringa”
- Croatian: “Kanton”
- Dutch: “Abariringa”
- Dutch: “Kanton Island”
- Dutch: “Kanton”
- Dutch: “Kantoneiland”
- Estonian: “Abariringa saar”
- Estonian: “Abariringa”
- Finnish: “Abariringa”
- French: “Abariringa”
- French: “Canton Island”
- French: “Canton”
- French: “Île Canton”
- French: “Kanton”
- Galician: “Illa Kanton”
- German: “Abariringa”
- German: “Kanton Island”
- German: “Kanton”
- German: “Pyramid Point”
- Greek: “Αμπαριρίνγκα”
- Greek: “Καντών Νήσος”
- Greek: “Νήσος Καντών”
- Hebrew: “אברירינגה”
- Hebrew: “האי מארי”
- Hebrew: “קנטון”
- Italian: “Canton”
- Japanese: “カントン島”
- Korean: “아바리링가 섬”
- Korean: “아바리링가”
- Korean: “캔턴섬”
- Korean: “캔튼 섬”
- Lithuanian: “Kantono sala”
- Macedonian: “Кантон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abariringa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantonøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abariringa Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atollen Kanton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canton Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanton Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mary Balcout Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swallow Island”
- Norwegian: “Kantonøya”
- Persian: “جزیره کانتون”
- Persian: “کانتون”
- Polish: “Abariringa”
- Polish: “Kanton”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Kanton”
- Russian: “Абариринга”
- Russian: “атолл Кантон”
- Russian: “Кантон (атолл)”
- Russian: “Кантон”
- Spanish: “Isla Canton”
- Spanish: “Isla Kanton”
- Spanish: “Kanton”
- Swedish: “Kantonatollen”
- Tajik: “Кантон”
- Turkish: “Kanton Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Abariringa Island”
- Ukrainian: “Canton Island”
- Ukrainian: “Абарірінга”
- Ukrainian: “атол Кантон”
- Ukrainian: “Кантон”
- “Canton Island”
- “Kanton”
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