Future Christmas Island administrator of Mac Holten was born 29 March 1922
#OnThisDay 29 March 1922 Rendle McNeilage "Mac" Holten was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He served as Administrator of Christmas Island from 1980 to 1982. #OTD #history #christmasisland #auspol #auspolitics #politics
Two #ChristmasIsland veterans being held at arms length until they die. That is the #UK Establishment treating people as the expendables they were when deployed. #NuclearTesting
#BBCNewsnight
Bill Taylor became administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories on 4 February 1999
#OnThisDay 4 February 1999 William Leonard "Bill" Taylor took office as Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, succeeding Graham Nicholls, who stepped down as Acting Administrator the day before. #OTD #history #christmasisland #cocos #auspol #auspolitics #politics
Bill Taylor became administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories on 3 February 1999
A slightly late #OnThisDay. On 3 February 1999 Graham Nicholls stepped down as Acting Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, having served since 1998. He was succeeded the next day by William Leonard "Bill" Taylor. #OTD #history #cocos #christmasisland #auspol #auspolitics
Future Christmas Island administrator Harry Webb was born on 2 February 1908
#OnThisDay 2 February 1908 Charles Harry Webb was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England. He served as Administrator of Christmas Island from 1974 to 1975. #OTD #history #christmasisland #auspol #auspolitics #politics
#OnThisDay 1 February 1910 John William Stokes was born. He served as Official Representative of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands from 1958 to 1960, and as Official Representative of Christmas Island from 1960 to 1966. #OTD #history #cocos #christmasisland #auspol #auspolitics #politics
Neil Lucas became administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories on 30 January 2006
Evan Williams retired as administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories on 31 October 2005
#OnThisDay 30 January 2006 Neil Bedford Lucas took office as Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, succeeding Evan John Williams, who retired the year before. #OTD #history #indianocean #cocos #christmasisland #auspol #auspolitics #politics
It's former Australian Indian Ocean Territories administrator Natasha Griggs' 57th birthday
It's the 57th birthday of Natasha Louise Griggs, who was born #OnThisDay 24 January 1969 in Adelaide, South Australia. She served as Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories from 2017 to 2022. #OTD #history #cocos #christmasisland #auspol #auspolitics #politics
Future Christmas Island administrator Don Taylor was born on 24 January 1928
#OnThisDay 24 January 1928 Alexander Donald "Don" Taylor was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He served as Administrator of Christmas Island from 1986 to 1990. #OTD #history #christmasisland #wapol #wapolitics #auspol #auspolitics #politics
#wapolitics #straitssettlements #malaysia #singapore #christmasisland #sapol #sapolitics #saparli #parlisa #politics
Aviation weather for Christmas Island airport (Christmas Island) is “YPXM 060500Z AUTO 02007KT 340V040 9999 // FEW021 BKN027 30/24 Q1012” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ypxm/en #christmasislandairport #airport #christmasisland #ypxm #xch #metar #aviation […]
BTW (late news): 🍾 #Kiribati #ChristmasIsland #NewZealand #Fiji #Australia (and all the rest) 🙂
Happy New Year to the citizens of Pacific islands, including Samoa and Kiribati Island. #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026
#PacificIslands #Kiribati #ChristmasIsland #kiritimati #Samoa
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All we want for Christmas is... a safe future for the Christmas Island Flying-Fox! 🦇
They are critically endangered, one of the island's keystone species, and successful monitoring is crucial to conservation efforts! doi.org/10.1071/WR24...
#ChristmasFlyingFox #ChristmasIsland #WildlifeResearch
#OnThisDay 13 December 1912 William Worth was born in Perth, Western Australia. He served as Administrator of Christmas Island from 1975 to 1977. #OTD #history #auspol #auspolitics #christmasisland #seato #politics
Films watched this year: 354 #yearofmovies #dvd #dvdcollection #tvandfilmadventcalendar #day5 #christmasisland #andrewwalker #rachelskarsten #katedrummond #jeffersonbrown #petermacneill #laurenhammersley #brittloder #lincolnmacneill #willcoombs #drama #romance #hallmark #christmas #davidweaver
Aviation weather for Christmas Island airport (Christmas Island) is “YPXM 280530Z AUTO 17008KT 9999 // FEW019 27/22 Q1012” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ypxm/en #christmasislandairport #airport #christmasisland #ypxm #xch #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
It's former Australian Indian Ocean Territories administrator Barry Haase's 80th birthday
Today is the 80th birthday of Barry Wayne Haase, who was born #OnThisDay 19 November 1945 in Southern Cross, Western Australia. He served as Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories from 2014 to 2017. #OTD #history #auspol #politics #cocos #christmasisland
Former Christmas Island administrator Harry Webb died today in 2000
#OnThisDay 15 November 2000 Charles Harry Webb died at the age of 92. He served as Administrator of Christmas Island from 1974 to 1975. #OTD #history #auspol #politics #christmasisland
@edzitron.com An AI datacentre on Christmas Island? This is beyond fucked.
#bloodinthemachine #noAI #christmasisland #google
Google plant strategisch AI-datacenter op Christmas Island #Google #AIdatacenter #ChristmasIsland #duurzameenergie #technologie
#ChristmasIsland
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* www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g... #Google #ChristmasIsland #DataCenter #EnergyVampire #tech #AI #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #environment
Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs https://arstechni.ca #AIinfrastructure #ChristmasIsland #machinelearning #cloudcomputing #subseacables #datacenters #AIandwork #australia #Military #redcrabs #defense #Biz&IT #google #SubCom #crabs #AI
