island
An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
of the Republic of
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 ...
. It was part of the
Tarawa
Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati,Kiribati ''
rising seas posed a threat to it. It remained uninhabited when it disappeared in 1999, along with the island Abanuea.