"This is Christmas, and this is Santa Claus," said Troiano as she looks at Lynch, 52, of Wildwood Crest, standing next ... wrap and deliver them around the island on the night before Christmas.

The Australian external territory of Christmas Island is largely made up of Christmas Island National Park. It is a spot full of luscious rainforests, diverse wildlife and beautiful beaches.

A sea of red has washed over picturesque Christmas Island - as tens of millions of red crabs march from the rainforests to the coast to breed. More than 65million red crabs are beginning to make ...

As a remote tropical outpost teeming with unique wildlife, Christmas Island shouldn't have any trouble attracting visitors. Yet after more than a decade of hosting a detention centre that became ...

His is a humbler choice: the Christmas Island rat, a species that was wiped out from its island home in the Indian Ocean more than a century ago. Gilbert, an evolutionary geneticist at the ...