Line and Phoenix Islands

The exotically named Line and Phoenix islands are two groups of remote islands that form part of Kiribati.

The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight uninhabited atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands.  In  2008 the government of Kiribati declared the entire Phoenix group and surrounding waters a protected area, making it the world's largest marine protected area.

The Line Islands are a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest island chains of the world.  Only three  of the atolls are inhabited.

The Line and Phoenix Islands and administered from Tarawa Atol.