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href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%89%B5%E1%88%9B%E1%88%B5_%E1%8B%B0%E1%88%B4%E1%89%B5" title="ክርስትማስ ደሴት – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ክርስትማስ ደሴት" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA" title="क्रिस्मस द्वीप – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="क्रिस्मस द्वीप" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अंगिका</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C4%ABstesm%C3%A6sse_%C4%AAeg" title="Crīstesmæsse Īeg – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Crīstesmæsse Īeg" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="جزيرة كريسماس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جزيرة كريسماس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_de_Nadal" title="Isla de Nadal – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Isla de Nadal" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islla_Christmas" title="Islla Christmas – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Islla Christmas" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milad_adas%C4%B1" title="Milad adası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Milad adası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="کریسمس آداسی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کریسمس آداسی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AA" title="ক্রিসমাস দ্বীপ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ক্রিসমাস দ্বীপ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A8ng-t%C3%A0n-t%C3%B3" title="Sèng-tàn-tó – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sèng-tàn-tó" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%83%D0%B0_%D0%A3%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8B_(%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Раштыуа Утрауы (Австралия) – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Раштыуа Утрауы (Австралия)" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%9E_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B4" title="Востраў Каляд – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Востраў Каляд" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%9E_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Востраў Раства – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Востраў Раства" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA" title="क्रिसमस दीप – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="क्रिसमस दीप" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_nin_Pasko" title="Isla nin Pasko – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Isla nin Pasko" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_(%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Рождество (остров, Австралия) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Рождество (остров, Австралия)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEi%C4%87no_ostrvo" title="Božićno ostrvo – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Božićno ostrvo" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enez_Christmas_(Aostralia)" title="Enez Christmas (Aostralia) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Enez Christmas (Aostralia)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illa_Christmas" title="Illa Christmas – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Illa Christmas" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Christmas Island" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1no%C4%8Dn%C3%AD_ostrov" title="Vánoční ostrov – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Vánoční ostrov" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynys_y_Nadolig" title="Ynys y Nadolig – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Ynys y Nadolig" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island_(Indiske_Ocean)" title="Christmas Island (Indiske Ocean) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Christmas Island (Indiske Ocean)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnachtsinsel_(Australien)" title="Weihnachtsinsel (Australien) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Weihnachtsinsel (Australien)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B5ulusaar" title="Jõulusaar – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Jõulusaar" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD" title="Νήσος των Χριστουγέννων – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Νήσος των Χριστουγέννων" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-en mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island – English" lang="en" hreflang="en" data-title="Christmas Island" data-language-autonym="English" data-language-local-name="English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_de_Navidad" title="Isla de Navidad – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Isla de Navidad" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristnaskinsulo" title="Kristnaskinsulo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kristnaskinsulo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_uhartea" title="Christmas uhartea – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Christmas uhartea" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3" title="جزیره کریسمس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جزیره کریسمس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Christmas Island" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Christmas_(Australie)" title="Île Christmas (Australie) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Île Christmas (Australie)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krysteil%C3%A2n" title="Krysteilân – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Krysteilân" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oile%C3%A1n_na_Nollag" title="Oileán na Nollag – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Oileán na Nollag" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellan_y_Nollick" title="Ellan y Nollick – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Ellan y Nollick" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_adas%C4%B1" title="Christmas adası – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Christmas adası" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illa_de_Nadal" title="Illa de Nadal – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Illa de Nadal" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%95%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%B8_%E0%AA%A6%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B5%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%AA" title="ક્રિસમસ દ્વીપ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="ક્રિસમસ દ્વીપ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%E1%B9%B3n-tan-t%C3%B3" title="Sṳn-tan-tó – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Sṳn-tan-tó" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4%EB%A7%88%EC%8A%A4%EC%84%AC" title="크리스마스섬 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="크리스마스섬" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BE%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%AF%D5%B2%D5%A6%D5%AB_(%D4%B1%D5%BE%D5%BD%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%A1)" title="Ծննդյան կղզի (Ավստրալիա) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ծննդյան կղզի (Ավստրալիա)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA" title="क्रिसमस द्वीप – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="क्रिसमस द्वीप" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEi%C4%87ni_otok" title="Božićni otok – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Božićni otok" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulo_Christmas" title="Insulo Christmas – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Insulo Christmas" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_ti_Paskua" title="Isla ti Paskua – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Isla ti Paskua" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE" title="ক্রিসমাস দ্বীপমালা – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="ক্রিসমাস দ্বীপমালা" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulau_Natal" title="Pulau Natal – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Pulau Natal" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_de_Natal" title="Insula de Natal – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Insula de Natal" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3laeyja" title="Jólaeyja – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Jólaeyja" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_di_Natale" title="Isola di Natale – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Isola di Natale" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99_%D7%97%D7%92_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93" title="אי חג המולד – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אי חג המולד" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulo_Natal" title="Pulo Natal – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Pulo Natal" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulu_ning_Christmas" title="Pulu ning Christmas – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Pulu ning Christmas" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A8%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AB%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_(%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%90)" title="შობის კუნძული (ავსტრალია) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="შობის კუნძული (ავსტრალია)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B" title="Кристмас аралы – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Кристмас аралы" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynys_Nadelik" title="Ynys Nadelik – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Ynys Nadelik" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikirwa_cya_Noheli" title="Ikirwa cya Noheli – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Ikirwa cya Noheli" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ikinyarwanda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisiwa_cha_Krismasi" title="Kisiwa cha Krismasi – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kisiwa cha Krismasi" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B" title="Рождество аралы – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Рождество аралы" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%BB_%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B_(%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8)" title="Шартял ошмаоты (Австрали) – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Шартял ошмаоты (Австрали)" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijula_de_Nadel" title="Ijula de Nadel – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Ijula de Nadel" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_Christi_Natalis_(Australia)" title="Insula Christi Natalis (Australia) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Insula Christi Natalis (Australia)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziemsv%C4%93tku_Sala" title="Ziemsvētku Sala – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ziemsvētku Sala" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr%C3%ABschtdagsinsel" title="Chrëschtdagsinsel – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Chrëschtdagsinsel" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%97d%C5%B3_sala" title="Kalėdų sala – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kalėdų sala" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoa_Christmas" title="Isoa Christmas – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Isoa Christmas" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaersjmeseilandj" title="Kaersjmeseilandj – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Kaersjmeseilandj" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_de_Nedal" title="Isola de Nedal – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Isola de Nedal" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C3%A1csony-sziget" title="Karácsony-sziget – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Karácsony-sziget" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA" title="क्रिसमस द्वीप – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="क्रिसमस द्वीप" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Божиќен Остров – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Божиќен Остров" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D" title="ക്രിസ്തുമസ് ദ്വീപ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ക്രിസ്തുമസ് ദ്വീപ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motu_Kirihimete" title="Motu Kirihimete – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Motu Kirihimete" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA" title="क्रिसमस द्वीप – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="क्रिसमस द्वीप" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%99%E1%83%98_(%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%90)" title="ქირსეშ კოკი (ავსტრალია) – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ქირსეშ კოკი (ავსტრალია)" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="جزيرة كريسماس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جزيرة كريسماس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%87" title="کریسمس جزیره – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="کریسمس جزیره" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulau_Krismas" title="Pulau Krismas – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Pulau Krismas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ng-d%C3%A1ng-d%C5%8D%CC%A4" title="Séng-dáng-dō̤ – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Séng-dáng-dō̤" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D1%83%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB" title="Зул Сарын Арал – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Зул Сарын Арал" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%81%E1%80%9B%E1%80%85%E1%80%B9%E1%80%85%E1%80%99%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%BB%E1%80%BD%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8" title="ခရစ္စမတ်ကျွန်း – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ခရစ္စမတ်ကျွန်း" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmaseiland" title="Christmaseiland – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Christmaseiland" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81" title="क्रिसमस टापु – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="क्रिसमस टापु" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E5%B3%B6_(%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2)" title="クリスマス島 (オーストラリア) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="クリスマス島 (オーストラリア)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D1%83_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B3%D3%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B5_(%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8)" title="Ӏийса пайхамар винчу дийнан гӀайре (Австрали) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Ӏийса пайхамар винчу дийнан гӀайре (Австрали)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jul-Eilun" title="Jul-Eilun – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Jul-Eilun" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%C3%B8ya" title="Christmasøya – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Christmasøya" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%C3%B8ya" title="Christmasøya – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Christmasøya" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_(Ocean_Indian)" title="Christmas (Ocean Indian) – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Christmas (Ocean Indian)" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%96%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80%E0%AC%B7%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%B1%E0%AD%80%E0%AC%AA" title="ଖ୍ରୀଷ୍ଟମାସ୍ ଦ୍ୱୀପ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ଖ୍ରୀଷ୍ଟମାସ୍ ଦ୍ୱୀପ" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojdestvo_oroli_(Avstraliya)" title="Rojdestvo oroli (Avstraliya) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Rojdestvo oroli (Avstraliya)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B8_%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%82" title="ਕ੍ਰਿਸਮਸ ਟਾਪੂ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕ੍ਰਿਸਮਸ ਟਾਪੂ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%81_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3" title="جزیرہ کرسمس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="جزیرہ کرسمس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%90%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%90%D8%B3_%D9%BC%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88" title="کرېسمېس ټاپو – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="کرېسمېس ټاپو" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyspa_Bo%C5%BCego_Narodzenia" title="Wyspa Bożego Narodzenia – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wyspa Bożego Narodzenia" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_Christmas" title="Ilha Christmas – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ilha Christmas" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_Cr%C4%83ciunului" title="Insula Crăciunului – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Insula Crăciunului" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Остров Рождества (Австралия) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Остров Рождества (Австралия)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Christmas Island" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishulli_i_Krishtlindjeve" title="Ishulli i Krishtlindjeve – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Ishulli i Krishtlindjeve" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Csula_Christmas" title="Ìsula Christmas – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Ìsula Christmas" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%96%E0%B6%B4%E0%B6%AD" title="ක්‍රිස්මස් දූපත – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="ක්‍රිස්මස් දූපත" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viano%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_ostrov_(Indick%C3%BD_oce%C3%A1n)" title="Vianočný ostrov (Indický oceán) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Vianočný ostrov (Indický oceán)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEi%C4%8Dni_otok" title="Božični otok – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Božični otok" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Christmas Island" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%DB%95%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3" title="دوورگەی کریسمس – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="دوورگەی کریسمس" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%9B%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="Божићно Острво – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Божићно Острво" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEi%C4%87ni_otok" title="Božićni otok – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Božićni otok" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulo_Natal" title="Pulo Natal – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Pulo Natal" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joulusaari" title="Joulusaari – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Joulusaari" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jul%C3%B6n" title="Julön – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Julön" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulo_ng_Christmas" title="Pulo ng Christmas – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Pulo ng Christmas" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81" title="கிறிஸ்துமசு தீவு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="கிறிஸ்துமசு தீவு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%81%B5%E1%80%AF%E1%81%BC%E1%80%BA_%E1%81%B6%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%82%89%E1%80%9E%E1%80%99%E1%81%A2%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%82%89" title="ၵုၼ် ၶရိတ်ႉသမၢတ်ႉ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="ၵုၼ် ၶရိတ်ႉသမၢတ်ႉ" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AA" title="เกาะคริสต์มาส – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เกาะคริสต์มาส" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Adas%C4%B1" title="Christmas Adası – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Christmas Adası" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Острів Різдва – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Острів Різдва" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%81_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3" title="جزیرہ کرسمس – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="جزیرہ کرسمس" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%98%D8%AF%DB%90%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8B%D9%88_%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%89%D8%B1%D9%89" title="روژدېستۋو ئاراللىرى – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="روژدېستۋو ئاراللىرى" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%A3o_Gi%C3%A1ng_Sinh" title="Đảo Giáng Sinh – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Đảo Giáng Sinh" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E8%AA%95%E5%B3%B6" title="聖誕島 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="聖誕島" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>文言</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puro_han_Christmas" title="Puro han Christmas – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Puro han Christmas" data-language-autonym="Winaray" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg/195px-Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg/260px-Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="256" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Christmas_Island" title="Flag of Christmas Island">Flag</a></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Australia_on_the_globe_(Christmas_Island_special)_(Southeast_Asia_centered).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of Christmas Island (red circle) and the location of Australia mainland (continent in red)"><img alt="Location of Christmas Island (red circle) and the location of Australia mainland (continent in red)" 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red)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">British annexation</th><td class="infobox-data">6 June 1888</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Transferred from Singapore to Australia</th><td class="infobox-data">1 October 1958</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas Day</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital<div class="ib-pol-div-largest">and largest city</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Flying_Fish_Cove" title="Flying Fish Cove">Flying Fish Cove</a><br />("The Settlement")<br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r9430902">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Christmas_Island&params=10_25_18_S_105_40_41_E_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">10°25′18″S</span> <span class="longitude">105°40′41″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">10.42167°S 105.67806°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-10.42167; 105.67806</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official languages</th><td class="infobox-data">None<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spoken languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r9122542">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Mandarin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" title="Cantonese language">Cantonese</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hokkien_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hokkien language">Hokkien</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic groups</a> <div class="ib-pol-div-ethnic"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r8662964">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>21.2% Chinese</li> <li>18% Malay</li> <li>12.7% Australian</li> <li>8% English</li> <li>2.5% Irish</li> <li>40.8% other (including Straits Indians and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurasian_(mixed_ancestry)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eurasian (mixed ancestry) (not yet started)">Eurasians</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Christmas Islander</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Government</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Direct_rule&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Direct rule (not yet started)">Directly administered</a> <a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">dependency</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Australia" title="Monarchy of Australia">Monarch</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Australia" title="Governor-General of Australia">Governor-General</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Hurley" title="David Hurley">David Hurley</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_administrative_heads_of_Christmas_Island&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of administrative heads of Christmas Island (not yet started)">Administrator</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Natasha_Griggs" title="Natasha Griggs">Natasha Griggs</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shire_of_Christmas_Island&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shire of Christmas Island (not yet started)">Shire President</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gordon_Thomson_(Christmas_Island_politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon Thomson (Christmas Island politician) (not yet started)">Gordon Thompson</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia" title="Parliament of Australia">Parliament of Australia</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Australian_Senate" title="Australian Senate">Senate</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">represented by <a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_senators_from_the_Northern_Territory_(Australia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of senators from the Northern Territory (Australia) (not yet started)">Northern Territory senators</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives (Australia)">House of Representatives</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">included in the <a href="/wiki/Division_of_Lingiari" title="Division of Lingiari">Division of Lingiari</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Christmas_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of Christmas Island">Area</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">135 km<sup>2</sup> (52 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Water (%)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">0</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation<div class="ib-pol-div-elevation"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">361 m (1,184 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population</th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• 2021 census</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,692<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">not ranked</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Density</div></th><td class="infobox-data">10.39/km<sup>2</sup> (26.9/sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density" title="List of countries and dependencies by population density">not ranked</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6670383"><span class="nobold">(nominal)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">2010 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">US$52,177,900<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">Australian dollar</a> (AU$) (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">AUD</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B07:00" title="UTC+07:00">UTC+07:00</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island_Time&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christmas Island Time (not yet started)">CXT</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a 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domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/.cx" class="mw-redirect" title=".cx">.cx</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size: 125%; background-color:#b0c4de;">Christmas Island</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans" style="font-size: 1rem;">圣诞岛</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant" style="font-size: 1rem;">聖誕島</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"><table class="infobox-subbox collapsible collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Shèngdàn Dǎo</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" title="Cantonese language">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span>Sing<sup>3</sup>daan<sup>3</sup> Dou<sup>2</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pe̍h-ōe-jī (not yet started)">POJ</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Sèng-tàn-tó</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #b0c4de;">Territory of Christmas Island</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans" style="font-size: 1rem;">圣诞岛领地</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant" style="font-size: 1rem;">聖誕島領地</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"><table class="infobox-subbox collapsible collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Shèngdàn Dǎo Lǐngdì</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" title="Cantonese language">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span>Sing<sup>3</sup>daan<sup>3</sup> Dou<sup>2</sup> Ling<sup>5</sup>dei<sup>6</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pe̍h-ōe-jī (not yet started)">POJ</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Sèng-tàn-tó Léng-tē</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9689576"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r9671799">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Christmas_Island_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Christmas Island (disambiguation)">Christmas Island (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg/200px-Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg/300px-Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg/400px-Unofficial_Coat_of_Arms_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="263" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Poonsaan2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Poonsaan2.jpg/220px-Poonsaan2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Poonsaan2.jpg/330px-Poonsaan2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Poonsaan2.jpg/440px-Poonsaan2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Poon Saan shops</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Territory of Christmas Island</b> is a small island that belongs to <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>. It is in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>, about 2600 <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">kms</a> northwest of <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia" title="Perth, Western Australia">Perth</a> in <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a> and 500 kms south of <a href="/wiki/Jakarta" title="Jakarta">Jakarta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>. </p><p>About 1,600 people live on Christmas Island, mostly in a number of "settlement areas" on the north of the island: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flying_Fish_Cove" title="Flying Fish Cove">Flying Fish Cove</a></li> <li>Silver City</li> <li>Poon Saan</li> <li>Drumsite</li></ul> <p>Christmas Island is far from other islands. That is why many of the plants and animals are only found on that Island.<sup id="cite_ref-wilderness_society_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilderness_society-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of it is undisturbed by humans. </p><p>There used to be mining on the island, but now 65% of Christmas Island is <a href="/wiki/National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="National Park">National Park</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Change section: History" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section's source code: History"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Captain William Mynors of the <a href="/wiki/British_East_India_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a> ship, the <i>Royal Mary</i>, gave the island its name because they arrived on <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> Day, <a href="/wiki/25_December" class="mw-redirect" title="25 December">25 December</a> <a href="/wiki/1643" title="1643">1643</a>. </p><p>The earliest recorded visit was in March 1688 by <a href="/wiki/William_Dampier" title="William Dampier">William Dampier</a> of the British ship <i>Cygnet</i>. Dampier was blown away from the direction he wanted to go, and he got lost. After 28 days he arrived on Christmas Island. Two of his crewmen were the first recorded people to set foot on Christmas Island. </p><p>There were several visits and explorations of the island, but it was only when valuable <a href="/wiki/Phosphate" title="Phosphate">phosphate</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lime" title="Lime">lime</a> was discovered that the island was <i>annexed to</i> (claimed by) the British Crown on <a href="/wiki/6_June" class="mw-redirect" title="6 June">6 June</a> <a href="/wiki/1888" title="1888">1888</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Settlement_and_exploitation">Settlement and exploitation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=2" title="Change section: Settlement and exploitation" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section's source code: Settlement and exploitation"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Soon afterwards, a small settlement was started in Flying Fish Cove by G. Clunies Ross, the owner of the <a href="/wiki/Cocos_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Cocos Islands">Keeling Islands</a> (some 900 kilometres to the south west) to collect <a href="/wiki/Timber" class="mw-redirect" title="Timber">timber</a> and supplies for the growing industry on Cocos. </p><p>Phosphate mining began in the 1890s using <a href="/wiki/Indentured_servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Indentured servant">indentured</a> workers from <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>. </p><p>The island was ruled jointly by the British Phosphate Commissioners and District Officers from the United Kingdom <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office" title="Foreign Office">Colonial Office</a> through the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Straits_Settlements&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Straits Settlements (not yet started)">Straits Settlements</a>, and later the Crown Colony of Singapore. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Japanese_invasion">Japanese invasion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=3" title="Change section: Japanese invasion" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section's source code: Japanese invasion"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> invaded and occupied the island in 1942, as the <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> garrison <a href="/wiki/Mutiny" title="Mutiny">mutinied</a>, and they <a href="/wiki/Internment" class="mw-redirect" title="Internment">interned</a> the residents (made them stay where they were) until the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transfer_to_Australia">Transfer to Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=4" title="Change section: Transfer to Australia" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section's source code: Transfer to Australia"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Australia asked the United Kingdom to allow them to rule the island; in 1957, the Australian government paid the <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> of <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> £2.9 million in <a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/compensation" class="extiw" title="wikt:compensation">compensation</a>. This amount of money was decided by guessing how much the phosphate given up by Singapore was worth. </p><p>The first Australian Official Representative arrived in 1958 and was replaced by an <a href="/wiki/Administrator" title="Administrator">Administrator</a> in 1968. Christmas Island and the <a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a> together are called the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Indian_Ocean_Territories" title="Australian Indian Ocean Territories">Australian Indian Ocean Territories</a> and since 1997 share one Administrator who lives on Christmas Island. </p><p>Since the late 1980s boatloads of <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugees</a> have gone to Christmas Island, mostly from <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>. During 2001, Christmas Island received a large number of <a href="/wiki/Asylum_seeker" title="Asylum seeker">asylum seekers</a> travelling by boat, most of them from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and intending to apply for asylum in Australia. The <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> cargo vessel MV <i>Tampa</i> rescued people from a sinking Indonesian fishing-boat <i>Palapa</i>. The ship had 420 asylum seekers from <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, 13 from <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, and five from Indonesia. The captain of the ship asked to let the refugees leave the ship at Christmas Island. The Australian <a href="/wiki/SAS" class="mw-disambig" title="SAS">SAS</a> boarded and took control. The asylum seekers were sent to <a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a>. Another boatload of asylum seekers was taken from Christmas Island to <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. It was said that many of the adult asylum seekers threw their children into the water in protest at being turned away. This was later proved to be untrue. Many of the refugees were accepted by <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>. </p><p>The Australian Parliament later passed a law to ban people who arrive on Christmas Island from being able automatically to claim refugee status. This allows the Australian navy to move them to other countries (<a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>'s Manus Island, and <a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a>). In 2005, the Department of Immigration began to build an "Immigration Reception and Processing Centre", completed in 2007 at the cost of $210 million. It has 800 beds.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2013)">source?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=5" title="Change section: Government" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section's source code: Government"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Christmas Island is a non-self governing territory of Australia. The <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen</a> of Australia is represented by an administrator appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Australia" title="Governor-General of Australia">Governor-General</a>. Neil Lucas was appointed administrator on <a href="/wiki/28_January" class="mw-redirect" title="28 January">28 January</a> <a href="/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a>. </p><p>Federal government services are provided through the Department of Transport and Regional Services and the Christmas Island Administration. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australian</a> Government and other contractors provide state government services, but because Christmas Island is a territory the Commonwealth (federal) Australian Government pay the costs. </p><p>The local government is the <b>Shire of Christmas Island</b>. This council has 9 members, half the members are elected every two years. </p><p>Christmas Island residents who are Australian citizens also vote in Commonwealth elections for the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Territory" title="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</a>'s Lingiari constituency of the House of Representatives. They are represented in the Senate by Northern Territory Senators. </p><p>In early 1986 the Christmas Island Assembly held a design competition for an island flag; the winning design was adopted as the informal flag of the territory for more than ten years, and in 2002 it was made the official <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Christmas_Island" title="Flag of Christmas Island">flag of Christmas Island</a>. </p><p>The annual <a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island_red_crab&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christmas Island red crab (not yet started)">red crab</a> mass <a href="/wiki/Migration" title="Migration">migration</a> (around 100 million animals) to the sea to spawn has been called one of the wonders of the natural world<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and takes place each year around November; after the start of the <a href="/wiki/Monsoon" title="Monsoon">wet season</a> and in synchronisation with the cycle of the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">moon</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tourism">Tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=6" title="Change section: Tourism" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section's source code: Tourism"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island_National_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christmas Island National Park (not yet started)">Christmas Island National Park</a> covers 63% of the island. This means that for the visitor interested in plants and animals there is a great deal to see. There is also lots of amazing <a href="/wiki/Ocean" title="Ocean">marine</a> life in the sea. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plants_and_Animals">Plants and Animals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=7" title="Change section: Plants and Animals" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section's source code: Plants and Animals"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Island_Pipistrelle" class="mw-redirect" title="Christmas Island Pipistrelle">Christmas Island Pipistrelle</a></b> is a very small bat that only lives on Christmas Island. It is listed as a <a href="/wiki/Critically_endangered_species" title="Critically endangered species">Critically endangered species</a>. In 2008 there were only about 20 bats left and scientists thought that they could become <a href="/wiki/Extinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Extinct">extinct</a> during 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There has been a number of searches for the bat, but none have been seen since 27 August 2009. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=ICUN&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ICUN (not yet started)">ICUN</a> believes that the bat is now extinct.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=8" title="Change section: Bibliography" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section's source code: Bibliography"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>CIA World Factbook 2002</li> <li>Charles. W. Andrews, A Description of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). <i>Geographical Journal</i>, <b>13(1)</b>, 17-35 (1899).</li> <li>Charles W. Andrews, A Monograph of Christmas Island, London,1900.</li> <li>National Library of Australia, The Indian Ocean: a select bibliography. 1979 <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r9724332">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-642-99150-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-642-99150-2">0-642-99150-2</a></li> <li>W. J. L. Wharton, Account of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography</i>, <b>10 (10)</b>, 613-624 (1888).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_websites">Other websites</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=9" title="Change section: Other websites" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section's source code: Other websites"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>General </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shire.gov.cx/">Christmas Island Shire</a> official website</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/288/top.htm"><i>Christmas Island Act 1958</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081218153136/http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/288/top.htm">Archived</a> 2008-12-18 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://curlie.org/Regional/Oceania/Christmas_Island/">Christmas Island</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Open_Directory_Project" title="Open Directory Project">Open Directory Project</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kt.html">Christmas Island</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181225080337/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kt.html">Archived</a> 2018-12-25 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> in the <a href="/wiki/The_World_Factbook" title="The World Factbook">CIA World Factbook</a></li></ul> <p>Tourism </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.unearthtravel.com/guide/christmas-island">Christmas Island Travel Guide</a> from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Unearth_Travel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unearth Travel (not yet started)">Unearth Travel</a> a creative commons travel wiki</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&veaction=edit&section=10" title="Change section: References" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section's source code: References"><span>change source</span></a><span 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"Chapter 3: The economic environment of the Indian Ocean Territories". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=/ncet/economicenvironment/report/chapter%203.pdf"><i>Inquiry into the changing economic environment in the Indian Ocean Territories</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 April</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Save+Christmas+Island+-+Introduction&rft.pub=The+Wilderness+Society&rft.date=2002-09-19&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wilderness.org.au%2Fcampaigns%2Fmarine%2Fchristmas_island%2Fsave_ci%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsimple.wikipedia.org%3AChristmas+Island" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9724332"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070205053513/http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/dimensions/externalterr/christma.htm">"Geoscience Australia on Christmas Island"</a>. 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Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands" title="Heard Island and McDonald Islands">Heard Island and McDonald Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Island" title="Norfolk Island">Norfolk Island</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Zealand</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cook_Islands" title="Cook Islands">Cook Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niue" title="Niue">Niue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross_Dependency" title="Ross Dependency">Ross Dependency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokelau" title="Tokelau">Tokelau</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United Kingdom</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia" title="Akrotiri and Dhekelia">Akrotiri and Dhekelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anguilla" title="Anguilla">Anguilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Antarctic_Territory" title="British Antarctic Territory">British Antarctic Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory" title="British Indian Ocean Territory">British Indian Ocean Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands" title="British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cayman_Islands" title="Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guernsey" title="Guernsey">Guernsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Man" title="Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey" title="Jersey">Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands" title="Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha" title="Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha">St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands" title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/142227/members/">Commonwealth Secretariat - Member States</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles nomobile"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Northern_Territory" title="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</a><br /><b>Defunct</b>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Australia_(territory)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Australia (territory) (not yet started)">Central Australia</a> (1927–31)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Australia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North Australia (not yet started)">North Australia</a> (1927–31)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">External<br />territories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashmore_and_Cartier_Islands" title="Ashmore and Cartier Islands">Ashmore and Cartier Islands</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australian_Antarctic_Territory" title="Australian Antarctic Territory">Australian Antarctic Territory</a></i><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coral_Sea_Islands" title="Coral Sea Islands">Coral Sea Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands" title="Heard Island and McDonald Islands">Heard Island and McDonald Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Island" title="Norfolk Island">Norfolk Island</a><br /><b>Defunct</b>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Nauru&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="History of Nauru (not yet started)">Nauru</a> (1920–68)<sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Territory_of_New_Guinea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Territory of New Guinea (not yet started)">New Guinea</a> (1920–49)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Territory_of_Papua&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Territory of Papua (not yet started)">Papua</a> (1902–49)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Territory_of_Papua_and_New_Guinea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Territory of Papua and New Guinea (not yet started)">Papua and New Guinea</a> (1949–75)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Indian_Ocean_Territories" title="Australian Indian Ocean Territories">Indian Ocean Territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Christmas Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>(<b>1</b>) Sovereignty recognised only by <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afghan_Armed_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Afghan Armed Forces (not yet started)">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Armenia" title="Armed Forces of Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_Armed_Forces" title="Azerbaijani Armed Forces">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bahrain_Defence_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bahrain Defence Force (not yet started)">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Armed_Forces" title="Bangladesh Armed Forces">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Military_of_Bhutan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Military of Bhutan (not yet started)">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Brunei_Armed_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Royal Brunei Armed Forces (not yet started)">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Cambodian_Armed_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (not yet started)">Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People's Liberation Army">People's Republic of China</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_National_Guard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cypriot National Guard (not yet started)">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Armed_Forces" title="Egyptian Armed Forces">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defense_Forces_of_Georgia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Defense Forces of Georgia (not yet started)">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Armed_Forces" title="Indian Armed Forces">India</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indonesian_National_Armed_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indonesian National Armed Forces (not yet started)">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a 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started)">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maldives_National_Defence_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maldives National Defence Force (not yet started)">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mongolian_Armed_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mongolian Armed Forces (not yet started)">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatmadaw" title="Tatmadaw">Myanmar (Burma)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepalese_Armed_Forces" title="Nepalese Armed Forces">Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sultan_of_Oman%27s_Armed_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces (not yet started)">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Armed_Forces" title="Pakistan Armed Forces">Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armed_Forces_of_the_Philippines&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armed Forces of the Philippines (not yet started)">Philippines</a></li> <li><a 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