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Christmas Island is still known as Christmas Island. It was named by Captain William Mynors when he sighted the island on Christmas Day of 1643 as the Royal Mary was heading home from the East Indies. However, records of 1615 by the master of the Thomas, Richard Rowe show it was sighted much earlier. This island is not to be mistaken for the Christmas Island located in the Pacific Ocean, 2,000 km south of the Hawaiian Islands, where nuclear tests had been conducted. That island was discovered on Christmas Eve of 1777 by Captain Cook, and is now known as Kiritimati.
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First name of Disney's A Christmas Carol?
first name of Disney's A Christmas carol ?
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galah
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Phospates.
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