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(詳細はatoll in Kiribati located near the equator. Arorae is the southern-most island in the Gilbert Islands group. == Geography == The atoll's area is The atoll is a low and flat coralline island with an elongated shape. It is 9 km in length and 1 km wide. Because it is a small atoll, there is no lagoon. The population of Arorae in the 2010 census was 1,279 most of which are Protestants.〔 There are only two villages on the island, Tamaroa the northern village and Roreti (a local transliteration of Royalist) the southern village. The Government station is located between the two villages at Taribo. There are churches at Tamaroa and Roreti. These churches were built from pure limestone rock hacked from the island base itself in the early 1870s during initial establishment of Christianity on the island by the London Missionary Society, which later became the Kiribati Protestant Church (KPC).〔 * Tamaroa (population 426, 2010 census) * Roreti (population 853, 2010 census) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arorae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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