| "Coming Home to Banaba" Images and Quotes 3 |
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"All we need is water, stability of water. You can see what was done here in eighty years of colonial rule - the technology here was the finest in the world. Let's bring that technology back and show the world what can be done to rehabilitate a place."
Stacey King - Homecoming Trip Organiser |
| Banaba is just four square miles in area. It has no natural water supply on its surface: collected rain water is the only readily available source of fresh water, and there may be no rain for years on end.
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"I'm the sixth generation of descendants of the miners who actually mined Banaba. And all of us Australians, we grew rich during those years in our wheatfields, in our production of sheep and wool, through Banaban phosphate. There's such a moral issue: it's a physical issue of actually putting that soil in Australia."
Stacey King - Homecoming Trip Organiser |
| The collapsed cantilever gantry in Home Bay. Once it carried processed phosphate across the treacherous reef, to ships tied to the deepest moorings in the world. Shipload by shipload, Banaba was spread over the fields of Australia and New Zealand to boost flagging fertility.
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