Orona atoll, also known as Hull Island[1], is one of the Phoenix Islands in the Republic of Kiribati. The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight Atolls and two submerged Coral Reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands Kiribati or ( kirr-i-bas or KEE-ree-buhss ˈkiɾibas in Gilbertese) officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an Island nation located in It is unknown when the island was first discovered.
Orona was named Hull in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull, U. Isaac Hull ( March 9, 1773 &ndash February 13, 1843) was a Commodore in the United States Navy. S. N. by Commander Charles Wilkes of the USS Vincennes when he visited the island on 26 August 1840 in the United States Exploring Expedition. Charles Wilkes ( April 3, 1798 &ndash February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer and explorer. Built in Brooklyn Vincennes – the first American ship to be so named -- was one of ten sloops of war whose construction was authorized by Congress on Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. The United States Exploring Expedition was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean ("the Southern Seas" conducted by the United States Navy from
It was one of the islands involved in the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme was begun in 1938 in the western Pacific ocean and was the last attempt at human colonisation within the British Empire Hull Island was claimed by the United States in the 1800s. The United States relinquished all claims to the island in the Treaty of Tarawa with Kiribati in 1979, ratified in 1983. On September 20, 1979, representatives of the newly-independent Republic of Kiribati and of the United States met in Tarawa to sign a treaty
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External links
- Oceandots article with satellite photo
- Jane Resture page, with links to 1967 photos
- US-Kiribati Treaty of Friendship
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