Banaba
See also: banaba
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Gilbertese [Term?].
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Banaba
- An island in Kiribati, in the Pacific Ocean, a former site of phosphate mining.
- Synonym: Ocean Island
- 2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The last decent rain on Banaba was more than a year ago. […] Alofa says elders would like to see Australia and New Zealand fund a team of researchers to travel to Banaba to assess the damage and repair the caves.