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Posted by Jan Axelsson on February 17, 2018 at 9:03pm in Phoenix Islands, Kiribati

Orona is covered with coconut palms, and the coconut plantation was earlier part of the British Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. All residents were evacuated in 1963, due to drought and the declining copra market. Orona is today an uninhabited island.

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