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Tarawa Atoll, the seat of government and main population center for the Republic of Kiribati, is located in the western Pacific Ocean at latitude 1°28′N and longitude 173°00′E (Fig. 1). The 35 islands of the republic are divided into three main groups, the Gilbert, Line, and Phoenix islands, with Tarawa Atoll located in the central Gilbert Group.
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Ebrahim, M.T. (2000). Impact of Anthropogenic Environmental Change on Larger Foraminifera. In: Martin, R.E. (eds) Environmental Micropaleontology. Topics in Geobiology, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4167-7_5
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