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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A coral atoll of the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. An important aviation way station under Anglo-American control from 1939, Kanton became part of independent Kiribati in 1979.
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Alex Bond and three crew members had anchored off Kanton Island on their way from Hawaii to Australia when they discovered that the 14 adults and 10 children who live there were surviving on just fish and coconuts.
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Kiribati has proposed Kanton Island, a vintage landing strip built on a windswept reef to refuel transpacific airliners in the era before jumbo jets.
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Alex Bond and his crew anchored his yacht briefly near Kanton Island en route from Hawaii to
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Alex Bond rescues starving inhabitants of Kanton Island - an atoll between Haw ...
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Alex Bond, from Penryn, Cornwall, docked the yacht Mary Powell at Kanton Island - an atoll between Hawaii and Fiji - where he was met by extraordinary scenes.
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When Alex Bond, from Penryn, Cornwall, docked at Kanton Island - the only habitable island in the Phoenix Islands chain, northeast of Australia - he found that its 24 residents were destitute after a supply ship failed to bring them food four months ago.
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Americans have been drawn to the remoteness of Kanton Island, a speck of land nestling in the
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Alex Bond, from Penryn, Cornwall, docked the yacht Mary Powell at Kanton Island - an atoll between Hawaii and Fiji - where he was met by extraordinary scenes.
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Canton Island (Kanton Island) Kiribati 2 49 S 171 40 W
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Canton Island (Kanton Island) Kiribati 2 49 S 171 40 W
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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