KIRIBATI

(formerly the Gilbert Islands)

 


Kiribati on EclectiCity. Links to other Kiribati homepages. This site also gives background information and recent articles about the island including the dances performed on the millenium that was reported in a Japanese newspaper.

Kiribati National Anthem. Traditional words for the nation anthem and an instrumental sound bite.

http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~seward/OCE/radiob.htm
This is a website set up by the University of Hawaii to study the music of the Pacific Islands.

http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/carts/contmusic/musicarchiv/PacificMusic.html
Different instrumental sounds of the Pacific Islands

http://www.millenniumkiribati.com/mille.htm#CELEBRATIONS
Not a great website but has a couple of nice maps and pictures; however, no detailes

http://www.kiribati.f2s.com/cgi-bin/card.cgi
Send a Kiribati postcard.

FYI: Kiribati was the first place to step into the millenium due to the time zone.

 

-- Erin Pons