Google announced a major investment in the Dhivaru subsea cable system, a new Trans-Indian Ocean network that will link the Maldives, Christmas Island, and Oman.
Subsea Cables
The TalayLink will connect two underwater cables from Perth and Darwin to southern Thailand via Christmas Island.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Talisman Saber exercise will span 6,500 kilometers, from Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island to the Coral Sea on Australia's east coast.
ArabNews
Another $2 billion will be spent on the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to back major projects outside the south-east states, with the geography extended to include the Indian Ocean Territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands for projects yet to be revealed.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The war games will span thousands of kilometers from Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island to the Coral Sea on Australia's east coast, in a rehearsal of joint war fighting.
MarineLink
The Talisman Saber exercise will span 6,500 km, from Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island to the Coral Sea on Australia's east coast.
The Star
The Bali Agency for Meteorology, Climate, and Geophysics forecasts that the entire Island of Bali will be inundated with rain of varying intensities through the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Bali Discovery | News on Bali Tourism & Life Since 1998
The Kiritimati Island also known as the Christmas Island and 10 others mostly uninhabited islands of the central Pacific Ocean were the first to welcome 2024 and will be the first to ring in 2025.
Geo News
Australia Connect will consist of two cable systems: The Bosun submarine cable will connect Darwin, Australia, to Christmas Island with onward connections to Singapore, while a new interlink cable will connect Melbourne, Perth and Christmas Island.
Light Reading
A new interlink cable will connect Melbourne, Perth, and Christmas Island, while in Melbourne, the interlink cable will connect to the Honomoana cable system to create a new interconnection point for services from the US to Asia.
Business News Australia
Last week Google Cloud revealed its Australia Connect project, new cables that will connect Australia with Christmas Island and Fiji, Singapore and the US and Australia also announced it will spend $18m over four years on a cable connectivity and resilience center.
Ocean and Coastal Futures
A new interlink cable will connect Christmas Island, Perth, and Melbourne and into the Honomoana cable system, which extends out to the United States.
The Register
Another interlink cable will connect Melbourne, Perth, and Christmas Island, providing internet services between the U.S. and Asia through Australia.
Marine Insight
Christmas Island, sometimes described as the Galapagos Islands of the Indian Ocean for its biodiversity, could be free of feral cats by 2025.
ABC (Australia)
Kiritimati Island - also known as Christmas Island - and a string of 10 other mostly uninhabited islands in the central Pacific Ocean will be the first to ring in 2023.
India TV News
Bird species that are both morphologically unique and threatened include the Christmas Frigatebird, which nests only on Christmas Island, and the Bristle-thighed Curlew, which migrates from its breeding grounds in Alaska to South Pacific islands every year.
ScienceDaily
Some animals such as the blue-tailed skink are now only known to exist in captivity, while the central rock-rat and Christmas Island flying fox are among mammals considered most at risk of extinction in the next 20 years, largely due to introduced predator species.
DW.COM
Most of the long thick black hair, long dark whisker, and round ear phenotypes of the Christmas Island rat could likely be recreated if genome editing of a Norway rat was attempted.
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Last updated: 24 June 2026
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