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AMERICA ISLANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 818 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMERICA ISLANDS , a name given to See also:Christmas, Fanning, See also:Palmyra and attendant islets, belonging to See also:Great See also:Britain, in the Central Pacific Ocean, between the See also:equator and 6° N., and about 160° W. They are so named because frequented for their See also:guano by traders from the See also:United States. Christmas See also:Island is probably the largest See also:atoll in the Pacific (it is about 90 m. in See also:circuit), and was discovered by See also:Captain See also:Cook in 1777. The islands were annexed by Great Britain in 1888 in view of the laying of the Pacific See also:cable, of which Fanning Island is a station. Guano and See also:mother-of-See also:pearl shells are the See also:principal articles of export; the See also:population of the islands is about 300.

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