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Christmas Island has been discovered by Virtual-Tripping.
By Mark on November 26, 2009
This is a post about the Indian Ocean island of Christmas Island, which is located between Indonesia and Australia. It is a territory of Australia and is 2,600 kilometres or 1,600 miles north-west of Perth, Australia in Oceania, and 500 km or 310 miles south Indonesia and it’s capital city of Jakarta in Asia and is quite close to the Keeling Island’s. The population of the 1402 residents that live on the Island, there are a number of settlement areas, like the capital Flying Fish Cove which is also known as Kampong, Silver City, Poon Saan, and Drumsite.
Due to the island being inhabited late, it was around the 19th century, there is plenty of different types of natural species including, animals and plants. There is a densley populated rainforest and lots of lushus greenary around Christmas Island. Fields, hillsides, lakes, forests, parks etc. If you are a naturalist, then this is the place for you to visit for a nice rlaxing break.
So this appears to be the place to go to for peace and quite.
This is a panoramio picture taken of a welcoming sign to Christmas Island, Australia.
This is a panoramio picture taken of a road closure caused by crab migration on Christmas Island, Australia.
This is a panoramio picture taken of a Waterfall Cafe in Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Australia.
This is a panoramio picture taken of a boat and beautiful view of Christmas Island, Australia.
This is a panoramio picture of a golf course on Christmas Island with palm trees.
This is a panoramio picture sign of Asia pacific space centre which in the end never took place and instead the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), was built in it’s place on Christmas Island, Australia.
- Learn about Christmas Island on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Flying Fish Cove, capital of the island on Wikipedia:
- Learn about the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), on Wikipedia:
- Find Christmas Island on Google Maps:
- Find Christmas Island on Google Maps:
- Find Flying Fish Cove on Google Maps:
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2 Responses to “Christmas Island has been discovered by Virtual-Tripping.”
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
1:53 am on November 27th, 2009
What do you mean “Virtual Tripping discovers Christmas Island”?
We discovered it last year!
12:22 pm on November 28th, 2009
Oh really, thanks Nick, good place to revisit I think.