Series: Asian countries you never knew existed.... Episode 1

 The award for the most inconsistent blogger in town goes to..... my humble self😎😎. My

 beautiful ladies and stunning men, i'm back, back like i never left and i'm taking you to

 places you have never heard or seen💣💣. We are taking things slow though, you know

 good things are not meant to be rushed. Slow and steady gives you the fattest bones abi

 how do they say it😎.  Our first episode in this series is the beautiful CHRISTMAS

 ISLAND, yep, you saw it right, what you saw is what it is.

 Christmas Island is an Asian country with Australia as it's external territory. It is located

 in the Indian Ocean and has a population of 2000 residents.Their official language is

 English which is understandable because i can't imagine how messy it will be if each ethnic

 group spoke their individual languages. You will hear ni hao from a Chinese man and a

 Malaysian will reply with selamat , with a  corresponding sata sri akala from the Sikh😂,

 Tower of Babel is that you?😊. The Island is closer to Indonesia than Australia  but

 Australia owns and administers it. You might be wondering why Christmas Island is Asian

 when it  has an Australian territory, or why Australia owns it....well let's do some time

 travel.👀👀.

The story of Christmas Island starts with the European exploration. The name Christmas

 Island was given by captain William Mynors, an English sailor who saw the Island on a

 Christmas day in 1643 and decided to name it Christmas Island. I guess my man didn't

 want to do too much brainstorming  and just went with the easiest name😒 how boring Sir

 William. I wonder what he would have called it it if he saw it on a random day like

 Monday?. 

The Island was originally seen by Europeans in 1615 but they didn't care too much about it.

 It was in 1688 that anyone landed on it. William Dampier, an English explorer and pirate

 set foot on Christmas Island and found it uninhabited, he probably just ate crab with his

 crew and left😅. In 1888, our best friends the British government decided " oh, let's just

 take over this Island , it has no life anyways" so they decided to take possession of the

 Island, they do it best so i'm not surprised. Christmas Island wasn't a big land but they had a

 lot of phosphate ( a rock that contains one of the three nutrients used in making fertilizers),

 that was definitely a big catch for our best friends😎.

The British gave the Island to John Murray who was a naturalist and George Clunies Ross

 who was a property owner i guess. The two men set up the Christmas Island phosphate

 company and then brought in Chinese, Malay and Sikh migrants to work as servants. They

 were basically treated as slaves, more than 500 Chinese people died due to the poor

 working conditions and bad diets. The mine was forced to close temporarily because at one

 point workers were dying every single day. There were multiple Chinese graveyards and 

temples that are still fended to today. I feel like the British people find joy in torture and 

death because why would you make people work for you and still not treat them well, it's

 just pathetic.

Chinese people make up over 20% of the Island's population followed by 18% Malay and

 12.7% Anglo Australians.  The story doesn't get any better, because of the phosphate in 

Christmas Island, it was a target during world war II. In Nigeria we will just tell you to

go and do prayer and fasting because your village people are really on top your matter. The

Japanese bombed and invaded the Island in 1942 taking over the phosphate operations so

 they could make fertilizers for the Japanese empire. While 50 Asian and Australian families

 were taken to Perth, many were still on the Island and workers had to flee into the jungle

where they survived on eating birds and crabs. My stomach just tightened writing this, they

 are so going to hate crabs and birds for the rest of their lives😭. In 1943 , the Japanese

 struggled with managing the food supply so nearly two -thirds of the population were sent

 to prison camps in Java and we never heard of them again. The British regained control of

 the Island  in October 1945 and then in 1949, the phosphate was bought by the Australian

 and  New Zealand government.

The dots are connecting now right....you gerrit?.  The Island was closer to Singapore which

 was the British colony at that time so Singapore administered the Island.  The Island,

 Singapore, Australia and New Zealand were now  under the British, that's just crazy.

 Forward to today, Australia owns the Island despite being closer to Indonesia and that is

 because the Island was given to the Australians by the British so the Australians had to pay 

2.8 million pounds to Singapore as compensation to all the lost phosphate mining revenue.

 Hence, on October 1st 1958, Christmas Island officially became an Australian territory

 which the Christmas Islanders now celebrate for a whole week as territory day. Sounds like

 a happily ever after doesn't it?

The present day Christmas Island is a great tourist location with beautiful parks , great

 resorts and most importantly the crab bridge. You can imagine, they used to beg us to

 climb the bridge instead of crossing the express but our coconut heads like dying like rats,

 then we will say it's our village people but this crabs follow the bridge that was made for

 them to keep everywhere civilized😎😉. The crab bridge was specifically built for crabs

 to migrate from forests to oceans....mind blowing😯. I wonder how honoured those crabs

 will feel, with up to forty million crabs needing to go first simultaneously, this is definitely

 needed. It wouldn't be a bad idea to actually go to Christmas Island to see the crabs migrate

 and all but i think i suddenly developed a phobia for crabs gathered at a place💨 so no

 thanks. 

Let me know your thoughts about our first episode in the comment section💓. Is Christmas

 Island a place you will love to visit?