Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Caroline Island

Caroline Island

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 2, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 20:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)



Caroline Island is the easternmost of the uninhabited coral atolls which comprise the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. First sighted by Europeans in 1606 and claimed by the United Kingdom in 1868, it has been part of the Republic of Kiribati since the island nation's independence in 1979. Caroline Island has remained relatively pristine, despite guano mining, copra harvesting, and human habitation in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is home to one of the world's largest populations of the coconut crab and is an important breeding site for seabirds, most notably the sooty tern. The atoll is best known for its role in celebrations surrounding the arrival of the year 2000 – a 1995 realignment of the International Date Line made Caroline Island the easternmost land west of the Date Line and therefore one of the first points of land on earth to see sunrise in the year 2000.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Mount Melbourne on July 12 is another natural geographical location
 * Main editors: nominated for FAC,  received a WP:FASA.
 * Promoted: July 30, 2006, FAR "Kept" on March 21, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: Polynesia is an underrepresented topic at TFA. This would be a TFA re-run. Blurb is from the previous run.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 20:09, 30 July 2022 (UTC)