Aanikai is the main island of

North Tabiteuea North Tabiteuea is a local council in Tabiteuea, Kiribati. North Tabiteuea (in Gilbertese, ''Tabiteuea Meang'') has a land area of and a population of 4,120 , distributed among twelve villages (capital Utiroa). On 1 July 1799, Charles Bishop ...

, in

Kiribati Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa. The st ...

. Its surface area is 22.4 km² (about 24 km² of the entire northern part of the atoll). The following communities are found on Eanikai: * Eita Village *

Utiroa Utiroa is a settlement in Kiribati. It is located on Tabiteuea atoll and is the capital of North Tabiteuea; Nuribenua is to its west, while Terikiai and Eita are to its north. Education Utiroa is served by Temwamwang School in Eita. The area ju ...

Tanaeang Tanaeang is a village in North Tabiteuea, Tabiteuea North, Kiribati. History According to oral tradition, Tabiteuea has long been divided between Autonomy, autonomous districts or villages such as Tanaeang, known as ''aono''. One story describes ...

Buota Buota is an islet and a settlement on the island of Tarawa, Kiribati. There are 1,756 inhabitants (2015). The islet is the southernmost part of North Tarawa even if there is a bridge connecting it to Bonriki and South Tarawa South Tarawa () ...

* Terikiai * Tekaman Village * Tekabwibwi Village

Savanna climate A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ...

prevails in the area. Annual average temperature in the area is

°C The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point ...

. The warmest month is January, when the average temperature is °C, and the coldest is December, with °C. Average annual precipitation is millimeters. The rainiest month is June, with an average of mm

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwe ...

, and the driest is November, with mm of precipitation.

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