Christmas Island 1958-
- Admiral Pelham Aldrich (1978)
- Charles Andrews, naturalist (1978)
- Andrew Clunies Ross, first settler (1977)
- George Clunies Ross, phosphate miner (1977)
- William Dampier, explorer (1977)
- Fam Choo Beng, educator (1977)
- Edmond Halley, astronomer (1986)
- Richard Hanitsch, biologist (1978)
- Sir Rowland Hill, postage stamp pioneer (1979)
- J. J. Lister, naturalist - with Arenga listeri (1978)
- Vice-Admiral John MacLear, (1978) HMS Challenger (1858)
- Sir William May, admiral (1978, 1988)
- Sir John Murray, oceanographer (1978, 1989)
- Victor Purcell, Sinologist (1978)
- Henry Ridley, botanist (1977, 1990)
- Captain Joshua Slocum, yachtsman (1978)
- Sir Harold Spencer Jones, astronomer (1978)
- Queen Victoria (1958)
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Famous quotes containing the words christmas and/or island:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)