Butaritari

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One of the Outer Gilbert Islands, Butaritari is Kiribati's greenest island, with breadfruit, coconut, pandanus and other fruit-bearing trees flourishing on its rich soils. Butaritari also has a sobering WWII history, as the lopsided wreckage of a Japanese seaplane near Butaritari village attests.