The following are a list of books that have been written over the years about Christmas Island.

THE ESSENTIAL CHRISTMAS ISLAND TRAVEL GUIDE Beth & Shaun Tierney, Linda Cash (ed) Christmas Island Tourism Association 2007

WE WERE THE CHRISTMAS ISLANDERS Marg Neale, Publisher Bruce Neale

THE EARLY YEARS Marg Neale & Jan Adams Publisher Bruce Neale

CHRISTMAS ISLAND WILDLIFE GUIDE Neville Coleman World of Water 2006

NATIVE PLANTS OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND Jeff Claussen Flora of Australia Supplementary Series Number 22 Australian Biological Resources Study 2005

CHRISTMAS ISLAND CULTURAL HANDBOOK – A guide to the cultural life of Christmas Island Anne Price (ed) 2002

CHRISTMAS ISLAND NATURALLY (SECOND EDITION 1994) Gray, H. & Clark, R. 1995

A VISITORS GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND, INDIAN OCEAN. Barry J. Reville.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND-EXPLORERS GUIDE (1966) Lone Island Publications

FISHES OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND (2nd Edition) Dr Gerald R. Allen, Roger C. Steene & Max Orchard (1988) CI Natural History Association

CHRISTMAS CRABS John Hicks, Holger Rumpff, and Hugh Yorkston, 1990

CHRISTMAS SHELLS Fred E. Wells, Clayton W. Bryce, John E. Clark, and Glad M. Hansen

THE UNION OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND WORKERS (1983) Les Watters

TAI KO SENG- GORDON BENNETT OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND Cyril Ayris.

GOLDEN LEAVES, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHINESE CEMETERIES OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND Helene Bartleson

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND – FIFTY YEARS AUSTRALIAN 1958 – 2008 Michael Zekulich, Phosphate Resources Ltd, 2008.

Need More Information?

You will be allocated a buddy on the island who you can contact to ask for any information you need about the island. Every endeavour is made to match people with appropriate buddies. Please remember buddies volunteer to help new arrivals and many holiday off-island during the Christmas period. This means that if you arrive on Christmas Island early to mid January your buddy may not be on island to help you. Most teachers will also be off island during this time.

You will also be sent information about your accommodation once houses have been allocated. In the mean time you can ring the school and ask to speak to the Principal Ian Francis or Deputies, Alan Thornton, Greg Graffin or Amy Leutich. They will try to give you as much information as they can.

There are also quite a few websites of interest if you do a search for Christmas Island. Some sites that you may wish to browse can be found at;

http://www.christmas.net.au/ - information from the CI Tourist Association.

http://www.shire.gov.cx    - information from the Shire of CI including strategic plans for the island, public notices and the local newspaper online.

www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Territories_of_AustraliaChristmas_Island - Christmas Island comes under the administration of the Attorney Generals Department. This is their website.

http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/christmas/index - This is the site for CI Parks

http://www.traveldocs.com/cx/ - information about travel to Christmas Island

http://www.fishdive.com/christmas_isl - if you‟re interested in fishing

http://www.cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~austeco - if you‟re interested in birdlife

http://www.christmasislanddivers.com – if you‟re interesting in diving

http://www.divingchristmas.com.cx – if you‟re interested in diving

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island - general information on CI

Good luck and we look forward to meeting you.