Christmas Island (Australia) Vacation Travel Wild Video Guide
Travel Wild explores one of Australia's most remote destinations Christmas Island. Host Lin Sutherland has come here to experience some of Australia's most incredible wildlife encounters. Lin comes face to face with whale sharks, dolphins and sharks while exploring the stunning coral reefs of Christmas Islands. But the highlight of Lin's trip is being surrounded by hundreds and thousands of marching crabs in what is truly a world class wildlife migration the marching of the red crabs of Christmas Island. A not to be missed episode
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1. The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean, around 350 kilometres (220 mi) south of Java and Sumatra and around 1,550 kilometres (960 mi) north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It has an area of 135 square kilometres.
2. The first European to sight the island was Richard Rowe of the Thomas in 1615. The island was later named on Christmas Day (25 December) 1643 by Captain William Mynors, but only settled in the late 19th century. Its geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists. The majority (63 percent) of the island is included in the Christmas Island National Park, which features several areas of primary monsoonal forest.
3. It has been settled only since the 1880s; for much of the period since then it was administered by the Straits Settlement (Singapore), with inclusion as an Australian territory only since 1958. Phosphate mining was the reason for its settlement, and has persisted as the main (sometimes only) industry ever since, leading to loss of about 25% of the Island’s rainforest area.
4. Flying Fish Cove is the capital city and main settlement of Australia's Christmas Island. Although it was originally named after British survey-ship Flying-Fish, many maps simply label it “The Settlement”. It was the first British settlement on the island, established in 1888.
5. Most of its reptiles, native mammals, and terrestrial birds occur (or occurred) nowhere else; and nearly 200 invertebrate species are considered endemic. There are very few areas in Australia (indeed, in the world) that can match such narrow endemism. The endemic Red Crab is the most conspicuous, with a population of at least 40 million. It is the Island’s ecological lynchpin, engineering the forest structure and productivity. It is everywhere; but spectacularly so in its annual breeding migration from forest to sea, when the forest floor, roads and gardens become moving masses of crab: one of the world’s great animal migrations.
6. From the outbreak of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II in December 1941, Christmas Island was a target for Japanese occupation because of its rich phosphate deposits.
7. From the late 1980s and early 1990s, boats carrying asylum seekers, mainly departing from Indonesia, began landing on the island. In 2001, Christmas Island was the site of the Tampa controversy, in which the Australian government stopped a Norwegian ship, MV Tampa, from disembarking 438 rescued asylum-seekers. The ensuing standoff and the associated political reactions in Australia were a major issue in the 2001 Australian federal election.
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Christmas Island Wildlife
A selection of beautiful photography of Christmas Island's unique wildlife by Ivan Choong
Christmas Island, a natural wonder
Christmas Island, a jewel in the Indian Ocean, filmed by Sorrel Wilby and the team at Australian Geographic. Find out more here: christmas.net.au - and join our Facebook community at facebook.com/christmasislandtourism
Christmas Island National Park -- Red crabs, males migrating
Parks Australia -- Christmas Island
Catch a glimpse of Christmas Island's stunning red crabs in their epic annual migration.
A National Geographic wildlife crew has captured the heroic mating ritual - and also the rare survival and return of more than a million tiny baby crabs.
In a new seven part series called Great Migrations, they chronicle the arduous journeys millions of animals take to ensure the survival of their species.
For more information, please visit: parksaustralia.gov.au/Christmas
© 2010 Commonwealth of Australia - Department of Environment
TOP 15 CHRISTMAS ISLAND Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Christmas Island - Australia, one of the most remote islands in the world. Christmas Island lying in the south of Java Island, Indonesia, but this island is an Australian territory. Beach, wetlands, rainforest and waterfalls are in this 135-sq-km island.
In Christmas Island, red crab and nesting seabirds are native wildlife. Seeing late-fall migration to the sea of red crab is one of the favorite tourist attractions in Christmas Island. Besides that, diving and snorkeling is one of favorites things to do in Christmas Island.
Things to do in Christmas Island for visitor is to visiting Christmas Island National Park, hiking trail in The Dale, Christmas Island tours by Christmas Island Wet n' Dry Adventures, Indian Ocean Experiences- Day Tours, Shorefire and Extra Divers Australia. Don't forget to exploring Lily Beach, The Grotto, Dolly Beach, Ethel Beach, Greta Beach, Gun Emplacement, Margaret Knoll Lookout, Freshwater Cave and Ma Chor Nui Nui Temple.
To get to Christmas Island, best starting point are from Perth (Western Australia) or from Jakarta (Indonesia). No visa is required from those places.
All about where to go or what to do list in Christmas Island tourist attractions details are in this video by Explore Australia. Hope you will enjoy your moment in this one of most remote islands in Australia and the world.
Australian Geographic presents Christmas Island - Part 4: The Red Crab Migration
Australian Geographic presents the very Best of Australia: Christmas Island. Part 4 illustrates the enormity of Christmas Island’s Red Crab Migration – described by Sir David Attenborough as one of the greatest natural wonders on earth.
‘Crab-sweepers’ Help Drivers Navigate Red Crab Swarms on Australia’s Christmas Island
▶️ As red crabs swarm across roads for their annual spawning season, one eco-lodge operator on Australia's Christmas Island created attachments for vehicles that can carefully sweep them out of the way.
???? Park rangers often had to close many roads on the island as the crabs migrate during December. As a result, visitors to Swell Lodge, a resort located inside Christmas Island National Park, either have to walk or take a longer detour to reach their destination.
Park authorities have installed multiple underpasses and a bridge for the estimated 40 million crabs who live on the island so they can safely reach their destinations. (REUTERS)
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Christmas Island National Park is a national park occupying most of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia.The park is home to many species of animal and plant life, including the eponymous red crab, whose annual migration sees around 100 million crabs move to the sea to spawn.Christmas Island is the only nesting place for the endangered Abbott's booby and critically endangered Christmas Island frigatebird, and the wide range of other endemic species makes the island of significant interest to the scientific community.
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Christmas Island
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Christmas Island National Park Ranger Brendan
Brendan tells us what it's like to be a Christmas Island Park Ranger.
Christmas Island National Park -- Green sea turtle hatchling
Parks Australia - Christmas Island National Park
Today we celebrate turtles
To mark World Turtle Day - today, May 23 - our Parks staff have pulled together a short video in celebration of these wonderful marine reptiles.
The video was taken on Christmas Island, home to two species of turtles - the green turtle and the hawksbill. Unlike mainland areas of Australia where turtle nesting usually takes place between October and November, nesting is a year-round activity on Christmas Island. This little hatchling is a green sea turtle.
World Turtle Day helps increase awareness and knowledge of turtles and tortoises around the globe.
For more information, please visit: parksaustralia.gov.au/christmas
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Christmas Island National Park -- Mike Smith, Christmas Island lizards
Parks Australia -- Christmas Island
Mike Smith, the Natural Resource Manager for Christmas Island National Park, talking briefly about two threatened species of lizard - Lister's gecko and the blue-tailed skink.
Building on a captive breeding program which started on Christmas Island in 2009, Parks Australia has teamed up with Taronga Zoo in Sydney to establish 'off-island' populations of these lizards — insurance against any on-island disasters.
For more information, please visit: parksaustralia.gov.au/christmas
© 2011 Commonwealth of Australia - Department of Environment
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Christmas and Cocos islands
AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC and Sorrel Wilby presents a new documentary on remote Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. From the internationally significant birdlife to the phenomenal migration of the red crabs, we cover the best of these islands.
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Christmas Island Red Crabs spawning
Christmas Island Red Crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) spawning at Ethel Beach on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean (Australia), December 2013.
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Red Crab Migration Across Christmas Island
Ever year, millions of red crabs migrate across Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean to mate. Their journey from forest to coast begins in the rainy season and is protected by park rangers, who block off roads and build temporary fences along the crab's migration path. Once the crabs have mated, females will lay up to 10,000 eggs each.
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