Butaritari Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island of Makin Atoll, Gilbetr Islands, Kiribati
About Butaritari
Known as the first island to have battles between Japanese and US forces during World War II, evidence of WWII relics and other historical sites can still be seen nowadays. Butaritari was once a home for Robert Louis Stevenson, briefly, in 1889, before he went to Samoa. Pictures of the Stevenson party, the boat they chartered (the Equator), and the Wightman Brothers (owners of the Equator) store on Butaritari, can be found in the Writer's Museum in Edinburgh. It was the first island to be sighted by Randell and Durant, the first resident traders. Given its abundance of rain received in a year, Butaritari is a lush and tropical island with widely grown vegetation. Because of this, bananas and pumpkin, apart from other food crops, are shipped to Tarawa for sale. Butaritari also has a number
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