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Whether the resident of Christmas Island eat the crab?

Whether the resident of Christmas Island eat the red crab？Why did Singapore sold the Island？

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1. I contacted a resident of Christmas Island to ask the same question...they taste bad. Don't know anything about Singapore selling the island, since it belongs to Chile...I think...
2. I am a Singaporean. What i heard was Christmas Island belonged to Singapore. Many years back, there was this man who sold Christmas Island to Australia and ran away and till today he is not found.
3. The Island is an Australian Territory and has been for over 50 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island They don't eat the crabs, just drive over them.
4. Make a donation to Wikipedia and give the gift of knowledge!Christmas Island From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the Australian territory. For other uses, see Christmas Island (disambiguation). For the island in the Pacific Ocean, see Kiritimati. Territory of Christmas Island Flag Coat of arms Anthem: Advance Australia Fair Capital (and largest city) Flying Fish Cove ("The Settlement") Official languages English (de facto) Demonym Christmas Islanders Government Federal constitutional monarchy - Queen of Australia Elizabeth II - Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia Quentin Bryce - Administrator Neil Lucas PSM JP - Shire President Gordon Thompson Territory of Australia - Sovereignty transferred to Australia 1957 Area - Total 135 km2 52 sq mi - Water (%) 0 Population - 2006 estimate 1,493 (n/a) - Density 11.06/km2 (n/a) 28.7/sq mi Currency Australian dollar (AUD) Time zone (UTC+7) Internet TLD .cx Calling code 61 The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located 2600 kilometres (1600 mi) northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, 500 kilometres (300 mi) south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and 975 km (600 mi) ENE of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It has a population of approximately 1,600 residents who live in a number of "settlement areas" on the northern tip of the island: Flying Fish Cove (also known as Kampong), Silver City, Poon Saan, and Drumsite. The island’s geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism amongst its flora and fauna, which is of significant interest to scientists and naturalists,[1]. Guano has been mined on the island for many years. 63% of its 135 square kilometres (52 sq mi) is National Park and there are large areas of primary rainforest. Contents [show] 1 History 1.1 Exploration and annexation 1.2 Settlement and exploitation 1.3 Japanese invasion 1.4 Transfer to Australia 2 Refugee and immigration detention 3 People 4 Postage stamps 5 Government 6 Economy 7 Geography 8 Flora and fauna 9 Communications and transportation 10 Tourism 11 Education 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External links [edit] History British and Dutch navigators first included the island on their charts in the early seventeenth century, and Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary, named the island when he arrived on Christmas Day, 25 December 1643.[citation needed] The island first appears on a map produced by Pieter Goos and published in 1666. Goos had labelled the island Moni.[citation needed] The earliest recorded visit was in March 1688 by William Dampier of the British ship Cygnet, who found it uninhabited. An account of the visit can be found in Dampier's Voyages, which describes how, when trying to reach Cocos from New Holland, his ship was pulled off course in an easterly direction and after 28 days arrived at Christmas Island. Dampier landed at the Dales (on the West Coast) and two of his crewmen were the first recorded people to set foot on Christmas Island. The next visit was by Daniel Beekman, who described it in his 1718 book, A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, in the East Indies. In 1771, the Indian vessel, the Pigot, attempted to find an anchorage but was unsuccessful. The crew reported seeing wild pigs and coconut palms, however, pigs are not known to have been introduced to the island at the time. Thus, it is thought[who?] that the Pigot may have found a different island.[citation needed] [edit] Exploration and annexation Poon Saan in the evening Poon Saan shopsThe first attempt at exploring the island was in 1857 by the crew of the Amethyst. They tried to reach the summit of the island, but found the cliffs impassable. During the 1872-76 Challenger expedition to Indonesia, naturalist Dr John Murray carried out extensive surveys. In 1887, Captain Maclear of HMS Flying Fish, having discovered an anchorage in a bay that he named Flying Fish Cove, landed a party and made a small but interesting collection of the flora and fauna. In the next year, Pelham Aldrich, on board HMS Egeria, visited it for ten days, accompanied by J. J. Lister, who gathered a larger biological and mineralogical collection. Among the rocks then obtained and submitted to Sir John Murray for examination were many of nearly pure phosphate of lime, a discovery which led to annexation of the island by the British Crown on 6 June 1888. [edit] Settlement and exploitation Soon afterwards, a small settlement was established in Flying Fish Cove by G. Clunies Ross, the owner of the Keeling Islands (some 900 kilometres to the south west) to collect timber and supplies for the growing industry on Cocos. Phosphate mining began in the