Christmas Island, Naturally all in an effort to

all in an effort to find an “acceptable” partner for their child to marry

Published by The Institute of Critical Zoologists

Her photographs have appeared in local and international publications

Woong Soak Teng

Christmas Island, Naturally all in an effort toDiscovered on Christmas Day in 1643, Christmas Island is an external territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean. The first settlers arrived on the island in 1887 and with the advent of the phosphorus mining industry, the population grew to 2,072 residents around 2001. Christmas Islands communities inhabited a number of settlement areas on the northern tip of the island. The majority of the population were ethnic Chinese and Malays who