Talk:Canton Island

message: I have removed the following from the article as it doesn't make sense to me at all. The  tags were in the article as well. If someone can make sense of it please reword it and add it back in if it deserves it. 
:(it is a small stroke that is "folded", if it was totally right, you have to ride 33 km and you have seen the whole island)
Thryduulf 10:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A small stroke that is "folded"

message: What's the name of the village where the 41 people (census of 2005) live in, and where is it located? The census list of villages only lists "Kanton", perhaps since there is only one village on the island. Some sources talk about "Pyramid Point" at the southeast corner of the atoll (the German wikipedia article ), and there is a DX postcard on page   that talks about "Tebaronga Village". Are those different names of the same village, or are they historic names of different villages?Ratzer 18:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very interesting. Pyramid Point is also the name of the southernmost point of the atoll, in the southeast. The only building that can be made out on the very detailed satellite images is a tower, presumably a lighthouse, but no other building. North of the lagoon entrance at Spam Island, presumably the location of Tebaronga village, several buildings can be seen, and more in the north, at the western end of the airport. But nothing at "Pyramid Point". Mysterious.--Ratzer (talk) 08:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Village - Kanton or "Pyramid Point" or "Tebaronga Village"?

message: I'm doing some research on a postcard I found in my parents' collection. On July 21 1975, a friend of the family sent a postcard from Kanton Island. He was there as an ham radio operator, working at the NASA tracking station from where they tracked the Apollo-Soyuz craft. The postcard is postmarked the mentioned date with the Kanton Island seal, and includes two U.S. canceled stamps commemorating the Apollo-Soyuz mission. So clearly the island was being used by NASA/U.S. after 1965, and American presence there was well after 1968. The postmark is also labeled "USPO", which should prove the U.S. post office was also there through 1975. Groink 23:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Island Used by NASA after 1965 

message: My boss said he was stationed on this island in 1972 and 1973, and that there were still people there when he left. Who said that the American presence ended in 1968?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Misopogon (talk • contribs) 15:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Presence Through 1973 

message: Does someone know how to get there nowadays? Sounds interesting for the article! Belgian man (taBold textlk) 10:08, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In the meantime, I have found something on the new Kiribati tourism website: here. The only company that serves Kanton with passenger services is Kiribati Shipping Services Ltd, under Shipping and Ferry Services. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 14:12, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

text: I was there in August 2008 and took a lot of pictures.  They are posted on flickr.com, so if you want to take a look search for 'kanton island'.  My id there is joann94024.  As far as getting there I took a very rough trip using Pacific Expeditions operating out of the Cook Islands.  I can't really recommend that route, but it is a way to get there if you are really determined.  First though I'd check out the supply ship to see if that is a possibility.  See link in above post. Joann94024 (talk) 06:28, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice pictures! I would prefer the route from Tarawa, sounds interesting to combine the trip with the rest of Kiribati :) Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 08:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent photos!!  I'd seen them before, when I was doing a Flickr search on the Phoenix Islands.  Thanks so much for sharing them with the rest of us!  The link is below, in an earlier entry I'd made on this subject. - Ecjmartin (talk) 10:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I've seen some old photos from the 30's and 40's of Kanton, and I can relate to what you write about the lack of vegetation on the island during that era.  More recent pictures indicate a much greater presence of foilage and trees, at least around the village on the island's west side.  Check some of them out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/72923065@N00/sets/72157607566623483/ (This is a Flickr user's account of her voyage to Kanton and other Phoenix Islands a few years ago.  The Kanton Island photos start at the bottom of pg. 1 and continue onto pg. 2.).  Perhaps the airline and other personnel stationed on the island during the 50's, 60's and 70's contributed to that, together with the increased rainfall you spoke of above.  Thanks for sharing your memories! - Ecjmartin (talk) 00:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to get there? 

message: Does anyone know what can be done to get there these days or how to arrange a visit? Phil. [October 26th, 2009]
(Check out www.phoenix-islands.com they run trips every year from Apia in Samoa)
:In the meantime, I have found something on the new Kiribati tourism website: here. The only company that serves Kanton with passenger services is Kiribati Shipping Services Ltd, under Shipping and Ferry Services. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 14:12, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was there in August 2008 and took a lot of pictures.  They are posted on flickr.com, so if you want to take a look search for 'kanton island'.  My id there is joann94024.  As far as getting there I took a very rough trip using Pacific Expeditions operating out of the Cook Islands.  I can't really recommend that route, but it is a way to get there if you are really determined.  First though I'd check out the supply ship to see if that is a possibility.  See link in above post. Joann94024 (talk) 06:28, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice pictures! I would prefer the route from Tarawa, sounds interesting to combine the trip with the rest of Kiribati :) Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 08:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent photos!!  I'd seen them before, when I was doing a Flickr search on the Phoenix Islands.  Thanks so much for sharing them with the rest of us!  The link is below, in an earlier entry I'd made on this subject. - Ecjmartin (talk) 10:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I've seen some old photos from the 30's and 40's of Kanton, and I can relate to what you write about the lack of vegetation on the island during that era.  More recent pictures indicate a much greater presence of foilage and trees, at least around the village on the island's west side.  Check some of them out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/72923065@N00/sets/72157607566623483/ (This is a Flickr user's account of her voyage to Kanton and other Phoenix Islands a few years ago.  The Kanton Island photos start at the bottom of pg. 1 and continue onto pg. 2.).  Perhaps the airline and other personnel stationed on the island during the 50's, 60's and 70's contributed to that, together with the increased rainfall you spoke of above.  Thanks for sharing your memories! - Ecjmartin (talk) 00:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Interested in Going there too

message: Just an opinion, here, but since this is a talk page, the rules of what is allowed here are very much relaxed, compared to the main article text.  I wholeheartedly concur with the decision of the editor who recently removed the commercial advert from the article texts of the various Phoenix Island articles, as that most emphatically does NOT belong in the article itself.  However, on the talk page, especially here when it's being given in answer to a query on how to get there, it doesn't seem out of line to allow a reference to that company.  Like I said, it's just my opinion. - Ecjmartin (talk) 01:04, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent deletion of commercial advert 

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message: The article states that "The atoll was initially named "Mary Ballcout's Island" after the shipowner's wife." As Daniel Bennett owned both Phoenix and Mary, it is not clear who Mary Ballcout was, and who she was married to. Googling "Mary Ballcout" does not provide any answers. Acad Ronin (talk) 21:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: The article states, "It was the site of at least two airplane crashes during the war: on 19 July 1944 and 5 December 1945." World War II ended on 2 September 1945. Therefore, the crash on 5 December 1945 could not have occurred during the war. Bill S. (talk) 18:33, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airplane crashes 

message: The Constitution of Kiribati (1979) says that the alternate names of this island are Canton Island or Kanton or Abariringa. And Canton Island is the usual name in English (there is no C letter in Gilbertese). --Arorae (talk) 08:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name