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Christmas Island get its name on Christmas day?

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1. As a matter of fact it did. For centuries, Christmas Island's isolation and rugged coasts provided natural barriers to settlement. British and Dutch navigators first included the island on their charts from the early seventeenth century, and Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary, named the island when he arrived on Christmas Day, 25th December, 1643. The island first appears on a map produced by Pieter Goos and published in 1666. Goos had labelled the island Moni.
2. I don't know. But i bet they raise xmas trees there, and I also heard that is where Santa REALLY lives with his elfs.