Tag: line islands
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Scoured by phosphate mining, Malden Island shelters fragile coral regeneration
Few islands look so finished and so forsaken at once. Malden Island lies in the central Pacific, part of the Republic of Kiribati’s remote Line Islands, a low, triangular platform of raised coral and limestone set in a vast field of ocean. There are no mountains to announce it from afar, no permanent settlement, no…