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Women in Christmas IslandWomen in Christmas Island was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 30 April 2020 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

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Alex Myers (3 January 2022). "This giant club-snapping crab might be the scariest form of wildlife ever seen on a golf course". Golf Digest. Retrieved 4 January 2022. "Robber" is a fitting term because it wound up snapping one golfer's driver in the following, horrifying clip that was captured by a group of guys playing on Christmas Island, which according to Wikipedia is "an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean." (By the way, we're glad Wikipedia is still around in 2022. Happy New Year, Wikipedia.)

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on December 25, 2010 and December 25, 2012.

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:08, 15 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Antipodal point, notable or trivial?

Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I noticed this new edit that begins Christmas Island is geographically notable within Australia for having a terrestrial antipodal point. Is it really notable for this, either in the Wikipedia sense or the real-world sense of the word? The question of what point on Earth is antipodal to some other point is of no practical consequence. It falls into the domain of geographic trivia, possibly meriting the reaction "Well, isn't that interesting?", but there isn't anything notable about it. Is this fact even sufficiently significant to be worth mentioning? If it is, is the word "notable" at least inappropriate here? Largoplazo (talk) 23:25, 26 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Trivia here, although it may be relevant on an article about antipodes. CMD (talk) 04:31, 27 December 2025 (UTC)Reply