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Aontenaa

human settlement in Kiribati

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2023
Entity authorityQ4778708 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aontenaa is a settlement located on Tabuaeran atoll, Kiribati. Paelau is to the north; with Tenenebo to the south.

In the 2010 census 190 people were recorded as living in Aontenaa.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Aontenaa” as human settlement in Kiribati. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Aontenaa, human and settlement can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Kiribati. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4778708. Authority coordinates are 3.850, -159.361. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aontenaa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.