Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian- I must painfully ( I dropped my Britannica Atlas on my foot...) admit that you continually amaze me! Where DO you come up with all this minutiae about so many far away places? :o) Dan (Who has trouble finding his butt before 11am, and with three cups of coffee at that) Post ----- Original Message ----- From: <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: [Leica] opening bell > In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it > is just after sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica > Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for > business. > > Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is > prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as > Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced > "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was an > English colony, it was known as Christmas Island. There > is another unrelated island with that name (an Australian > territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the > Line Islands archipelago. > > Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service. > Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it > is now safe in terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot > of cast-off military hardware littering the edges of the > island, but it serves more as a replacement for pandanus > leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of > rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks. > > There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow > sand flats around the island. It's slow film country; the > light is incredibly intense, being very near the equator. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information