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Christmas Island National Park
Christmas Island National Park is an Australian national park that includes most of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia. The park is home to many species of animal and plant life, including the eponymous Christmas Island red crab, whose annual migration sees around 100 million crabs move to the sea to spawn. Christmas Island is the only nesting place for the endangeredAbbott's booby and critically endangeredChristmas Island frigatebird, and the wide range of other endemic species makes the island of significant interest to the scientific community.