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Summary • Kiri... Who? The History of the Country ................... 02 • The Nation of the millennium goes to the Olympic Games...........................................................................03

• Native people and Culture...........................................05 • Tradicional Cousine.....................................................06 • Interesting Facts..........................................................07

• The Climate Threat......................................................08 • Going to Kiribati..........................................................09 • Gallery – Fall in love with this Paradise in Earth!......11

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Kiri... Who? The History of the Country Kiribati is the most beautiful island you’ve never heard of The name Kiribati was adopted at independence. It is the local enunciation of Gilberts. This name derives from the main archipelago that forms the nation. It was named the Gilbert Islands after the British explorer Thomas Gilbert. He sighted many of the islands in 1788 while mapping out the Outer Passage route from Port Jackson to Canton.

The Republic of Kiribati is a sovereign country with dozens of islands, atolls and reefs scattered over a vast area at the center of the Pacific Ocean, which goes from Micronesia to Polynesia. It is a country with territorial extension of 811 km ² and population

approximately of 110 thousand people, according to demographic research done in the year of 2015. Kiribati is one of the smallest countries in the world, yet it is the only one with territory that includes all the hemispheres.

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The Nation of the millennium goes to the Olympic Games

Located in the region of the international date line, where time zones begin to be counted, the islands - and their one hundred thousand inhabitants – were the first to enter the new millennium. Kiribati participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in the year of 2004, soon after receiving the title of "Nation of the millennium". The country became the 202st to join the International Olympic Committee's family.

For Athens, the Kiribati delegation will have only three athletes (four more leaders) enough to make the nation proud. Although a member of the British Commonwealth, an organization that brings together former colonies of the United Kingdom, the country remains forgotten, without any contact with satellite television and the internet, for example.

To publicize the Olympics, organizers of the local Olympics committee – almost all Australians - set up TVs in huts in the village centers and showed pictures of the Sydney-2000 Games. The devices aroused more curiosity than the images themselves.

The team's situation is also precarious. The IOC has reserved three vacancies for Kiribati athletes, but two have almost ceased to be filled.

A sprinter broke his foot while trying to learn the long jump. Another, for fear of flying, left the athletic team.

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The Nation of the millennium goes to the Olympic Games

The Kiribati delegation was set a few weeks before the Olympics. Go to the games the lifter Meamea Thomas and the runners Kakaianako Nariki and Kaitinano Mwemweata. Sports material is scarce. The three share eight pairs of sneakers, not all specific to their sports.

To buy the uniforms, Mula has created a website to sell brooches bearing the Kiribati flag.

The money collected only partially covered the costs of making the clothes. At no point in the 1,143 km² of the country (a smaller area than the city of São Paulo) there is an ideal place to train athletes. The training area of ​the athletics duo, located in the capital Tarawa, is improvised.Of clay, the track has less than the 400 m standards and does not form an oval circuit.

David Katoatau

David Katoatau (weightlifting): He has interesting stats, as the only athlete in his country to qualify for the IOC's uninvited Olympics and was the first champion of the country outside the imits of Oceania, by winning the category title up to 105kg in British Community Games.

Katoatau is expected to return to the Games and, for a break, to be the third time the country's flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony.

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Going to Kiribati - A travell simulation Traveling to such a beautiful and almost untouchable place can be a big and expensive adventure, there are no direct flights from Brazil to the country, in fact there are few ways to get there. The companies that connect in Kiribati, more precisely in Kirimati at the international airport of Bonriki. We can list: Fiji Airways, Solomon Airlines and Kiribati Air. 1-To get to Kiribati we will first go to SĂŁo Paulo, where we will take a two stops to Honolulu Hawaii:

2- From Honolulu, We will take a short flight to Tarawa

Bonriki International Airpoit, Tarawa- Kiribati

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Gallery – Fall in love with this Paradise in Earth!

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