Christmas Island
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Area
135 km²
Coordinates
-10.4475, 105.6904
Category
islands
Overview
A remote Indian Ocean island famous for its annual red crab migration.
About
Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is about 350 kilometres south of Java and Sumatra and about 1,550 km (840 nmi) north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It has an area of 135 square kilometres (52 sq mi).
More about Christmas Island
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