Canton [island] - Canton

Japanese: カントン[島] - カントン
Canton [island] - Canton
An atoll belonging to the Phoenix Islands of the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. It is diamond-shaped with a wide lagoon inside. It produces guano. It occupies an important position as an air base between Honolulu and New Caledonia. From 1939 until Kiribati's independence in 1979, it was under joint administration of the United States and the United Kingdom, and U.S. spacecraft and ballistic missile tracking stations were located there, but they have now all been decommissioned. It is about 9 km2 .

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Japanese:
太平洋中央部キリバス共和国フェニックス諸島に属する環礁。ひし形で内側に広いラグーンを抱く。グアノを産する。ホノルル〜ニューカレドニア間の中継航空基地として重要な位置を占める。1939年以降キリバス独立の1979年まで米英の共同管理下にあり,米国の宇宙船および弾道弾ミサイル追跡ステーションが置かれたが,現在はすべて廃止されている。約9km2

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