{"id":1674,"date":"2009-12-11T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2009-12-11T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T09:11:38","slug":"forgotten-world-195-christmas-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (195): Christmas Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company vessel, the &#8220;Royal Mary&#8221;, named the place <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_Island\">Christmas Island<\/a> when he arrived on Christmas Day, 25 December 1643. At Australia&#8217;s request, the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty to Australia in 1957; today Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands together are called the Australian Indian Ocean Territories and since 1997 share a single Administrator resident on Christmas Island.<br \/>\nIt has a population of 1,403 residents who live in a number of &#8220;settlement areas&#8221; on the northern tip of the island. The island\u2019s geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of uniqueness amongst its flora and fauna, which is of significant interest to scientists and naturalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company vessel, the &#8220;Royal Mary&#8221;, named the place Christmas Island when he arrived on Christmas Day, 25 December 1643. At Australia&#8217;s request, the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty to Australia in 1957; today Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands together are called the Australian Indian Ocean Territories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}