Tarawa

Tarawa: at world’s edge

By CJ • July 26, 2010

The view of Tarawa from the window seat of an Air Pacific plane doesn’t properly convey its incredible fragility. Shaped like a fishhook with a turquoise-blue lagoon in its center, the coral landmass, which forms the capital of the central Pacific nation of Kiribati, appears through the clouds as a narrow, curved strip that extends for over 50 kilometers.

Evening arrives at the Nippon Causeway on Tarawa, Kiribati

By CJ • March 12, 2010

Evening arrives at the Nippon Causeway in Tarawa, Kiribati, the site a major World War II battle in 1943.

Return to Tarawa

By CJ • September 14, 2009

Sixty-six years ago, the Pacific island atoll of Tarawa was a World War II battlefield of billowing black smoke and death’s stench