Getting Around: Causeways, Ships and Flights

The Road Is a Causeway

How the islets of South Tarawa were joined, what a causeway does to lagoon circulation, and what happens to the road at the biggest tides.

By the Visit Kiribati desk · 4 min read

The Ships That Do the Real Work

Copra boats and passenger ships as the actual transport network between islands, and the timetable realities of moving across an ocean-sized country.

By the Visit Kiribati desk · 3 min read

Small propeller planes parked on a dirt airstrip surrounded by bushland

Flights, and Why They Are Not the Answer

Air links between groups, the runway constraints on small atolls, and why distance in Kiribati is measured in days rather than hours. No schedules quoted — they change.

By the Visit Kiribati desk · 3 min read

Sunlit ocean water meeting a hazy sky at the horizon

The Country That Moved the Date Line

Kiribati straddles 180 degrees, and in 1995 the line was redrawn so the whole country shared one date. What that solved and what it means for anyone reading a map.

By the Visit Kiribati desk · 4 min read

Distances That Do Not Look Like Distances

Why a map of the Pacific systematically understates how far apart these islands are, and what the real spacing does to daily life.

By the Visit Kiribati desk · 2 min read