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The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they became the site of the last attempted colonial expansion of the British Empire through the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. The Phoenix Islands Protected Area, established in 2008, is one of the world's largest protected areas, and home to some 120 species of coral and more than 500 species of fish. The group is uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton. The United States unincorporated territories of Baker Island and Howland Island are often considered northerly outliers of the group, in the geographical sense. Howland and Baker are statistically grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands, however. The United States previously claimed all the Phoenix Islands under the Guano Islands Act. The Treaty of Tarawa released all American claims to the Phoenix Islands, excluding Baker and Howland. At various times, the islands were considered part of the Gilbert group (once also known as "Kingsmill"). The name "Phoenix" for this group of islands seems to have been settled on in the 1840s, after an island of that name within the group. Phoenix Island was probably named after one of the many whaleships of that name plying these waters in the early 19th century.
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Otočje Phoenix (en.: Phoenix Islands) je otočje u Oceaniji koji pripada Republici Kiribati, otočju u središnjem Tihom oceanu. Čini ga skupina od osam atola, dva potopljena koraljna grebena i 14 podvodnih planina (vjerojatno ugasli vulkani) u dubokom moru (prosječne dubine od 4.500 m, a najveće dubine od 6.000 m), istočno od Gilbertova i zapadno od Linijskog otočja, te sjeverno od Samoe. Otočje je nenastanjeno, s izuzetkom par obitelji koje žive na otoku Kantonu (ili Abariringa, gdje u jedinom selu Tebaronga živi 24 stanovnika prema zabilješkama iz 2010.). Ostali otoci su: Enderbury, Rawaki (bivši otok Phoenix), Manra (bivši Sydney), Birnie, McKean, Nikumaroro (bivši Gardner) i Orona (bivši Hull). Pored njih tu su i dva potopljena grebena, Carondelet i Winslow, od kojih Carondelet ima tek 3-4 m i potopljen je tijekom plime. Američki otoci Baker i Howland se zemljopisno smatraju sjevernim dijelom otočja, ali upravno spadaju u Male udaljene otoke SAD-a.