Gilbert Island Warrior wearing coconut fibre armour, resplendent in a puffer fish helmet and carrying a shark's tooth lance......think medieval jousting, but with blokes poking each other. Sadly the mining of guano by Europeans made several of the Gilbert Islands uninhabitable and then America set up a big army base there and evicted lots of inhabitants.......and now, to add insult to injury, the islands are under threat of being submerged due to rising sea levels/ climate change. It's enough to make you want to poke someone with a big stick.
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