Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. They constitute the main part of the country of Kiribati.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tarawa and Abemama.
Tarawa
Tarawa is an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, and the location of the capital of Kiribati. It is home to about 70,000 people, more than half of the country's population!
Abemama
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Abemama, Gilbert Islands, the land of the moon-light, is an atoll in Kiribati. The island is well known for its pristine beach and crystal clear blue lagoon.
Abaiang
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Abaiang is an island in the Polynesian country of Kiribati. Right next door to the capital, Tarawa, is famous for having pristine beaches and a sparkling blue lagoon.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Aranuka and Butaritari.
Aranuka
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Aranuka, formerly known as Ananuka, is an island in Kiribati. It is unique for its natural beauty as well as being the only island in Kiribati and quite possibly the Pacific region to have tall mangrove trees with heights of more than 15 meters.
Butaritari
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Butaritari is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati. The atoll is roughly four-sided. The south and southeast portion of the atoll comprises a nearly continuous islet.
Marakei
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Marakei is an island in Kiribati. Marakei Island is unique among the islands in the Gilbert Group for being the island with a deep blue lagoon located in the middle of it.
Nonouti
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Nonouti is an atoll and district of Kiribati. Nestled among the islands in the southern Gilbert group and the third largest island in the country, it is well known regionally and even world-wide for being the first island in Kiribati to have the Roman Catholic Church established in 1888.
Kuria
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Kuria forms the central point of the chain of islands in Kiribati. Being the widest island in Kiribati, this allows cooler temperature for Kuria making it a haven from hotter neighboring island.
Gilbert Islands
- Type: island group of Kiribati with 83,700 residents
- Description: chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Gilberts”, “King’s-Mill Islands”, “Kingsmill”, “Kingsmill Group”, and “Tungaru”
- Categories: archipelago and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Kiribati, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gilbert Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر جلبرت”
- Arabic: “جزر غيلبرت”
- Armenian: “Գիլբերտի կղզիներ”
- Azerbaijani: “Gilbert adaları”
- Basque: “Gilbert uharteak”
- Basque: “Gilbert Uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Гілберта”
- Breton: “Tungaru”
- Bulgarian: “Гилбъртови острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Gilbert”
- Cebuano: “Gilbert Islands (kapuloan)”
- Cebuano: “Gilbert Islands”
- Chechen: “Гилбертан гӀайренаш”
- Chinese: “吉尔伯特群岛”
- Chinese: “吉爾伯特群島”
- Chinese: “吉爾柏特群島”
- Chinese: “骄拔群岛”
- Chinese: “驕拔群島”
- Croatian: “Gilbertovi otoci”
- Croatian: “Gilbertovo otočje”
- Czech: “Gilbertovy ostrovy”
- Danish: “Gilbertøerne”
- Dutch: “Gilberteilanden”
- Esperanto: “Gilbertoj”
- Estonian: “Gilberti saared”
- Estonian: “Tungaru”
- Finnish: “Gilbert-saaret”
- Finnish: “Gilbertsaaret”
- French: “Gilbert Islands”
- French: “Iles Gilbert”
- French: “îles Gilbert”
- French: “Îles Gilbert”
- French: “Kingsmill Islands”
- French: “Tungaru”
- Galician: “Illas Gilbert”
- Georgian: “გილბერტის კუნძულები”
- German: “Gilbert-Inseln”
- German: “Gilbertinseln”
- German: “Gilberts”
- German: “KI-G”
- German: “Kingsmill Islands”
- German: “Tungaru”
- Greek: “Νησιά Γκίλμπερτ”
- Hebrew: “איי גילברט”
- Hindi: “गिल्बर्ट द्वीप समूह”
- Hungarian: “Gilbert-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Gilbertseyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Gilbert”
- Italian: “Gilberts”
- Italian: “Isole Gilbert”
- Japanese: “ギルバート諸島”
- Japanese: “キングスミル”
- Japanese: “キングスミル群島”
- Japanese: “トゥンガル”
- Kannada: “ಗಿಲ್ಬರ್ಟ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Гилберт аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Гилберт аралдары”
- Korean: “길버트 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Gilbertenses”
- Latvian: “Gilberta salas”
- Limburgan: “Gilberteilenj”
- Lithuanian: “Gilberto salos”
- Macedonian: “Гилбертови Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Gilbert”
- Marathi: “गिल्बर्ट द्वीपसमूह”
- Mingrelian: “გილბერტიშ კოკეფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilbertøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gilbertøyane”
- Norwegian: “Gilbertøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر گیلبرت”
- Polish: “Tungaru”
- Polish: “Wyspy Gilberta”
- Polish: “Wyspy Gillberta”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Gilbert”
- Russian: “Гилберта острова”
- Russian: “Гильберта острова”
- Russian: “Гильбертовы острова”
- Russian: “Острова Гилберта”
- Serbian: “Гилбертова острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gilbertova ostrva”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gilbertovi otoci”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otočje Gilbert”
- Sinhala: “ගිල්බට් දූපත්”
- Slovak: “Gilbertove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Gilbertovi otoki”
- Spanish: “Islas Gilbert”
- Swedish: “Gilbertöarna”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluang Gilbert”
- Tamil: “கில்பர்ட்டு தீவுக்கூட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Гилберт утраулары”
- Thai: “Gilbert Islands”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะกิลเบิร์ต”
- Turkish: “Gilbert Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Гілберта”
- Uzbek: “Gilbert orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Gilbert”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Kingsmill”
- Welsh: “Gilbert Islands”
- Welsh: “Gilberts”
- Welsh: “Kings-Mill Islands”
- Welsh: “Kingsmill”
- Welsh: “Tungaru”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Gilbert”
- Wu Chinese: “吉尔伯特群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “骄拔群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “驕拔群島”
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