Key facts
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
- Coordinates
- 11°25′49″S 151°49′08″W / 11.43028°S 151.81889°W / -11.43028; -151.81889
- Type
- Low-Coral
- Archipelago
- Line Islands
- Area
- 2.6 km (1.0 sq mi)
- Length
- 4,086 m (13406 ft)
- Highest elevation
- 7.6 m (24.9 ft)
- Population
- Uninhabited
- Time zone
- UTC+14
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- coral island
- Part of
- Line Islands
- Country
- Kiribati
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 3.2
- Elevation
- 8
- Time zone
- UTC+14:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- NASA-FlintIsland.jpg
- Width
- 0.9
- Length
- 4.1
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Flint Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Line Islands
- native label
- Flint Island
- time of discovery or invention
- 1521-02-04
- discoverer or inventor
- Ferdinand Magellan
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
11°25′48″S 151°49′9.12″W / 11.43000°S 151.8192000°W / -11.43000; -151.8192000
Flint Island is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific Ocean. It is one of several islands comprising the Southern Line Islands under the jurisdiction of Kiribati. In 2015, the I-Kiribati government established a twelve-nautical-mile (22-kilometre; 14-mile) exclusion zone around each of the southern Line Islands (Caroline, Flint, Vostok, Malden, and Starbuck), preventing fishing in the surrounding waters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flint Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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