If you're longing for an ideal Christmas gift, NASA's peacock blue satellite has noticed it within the southern ocean.

It is a coral coral reef — a circular reef, island or chain of islands created of coral — within the northern Line Islands and could be a territory of Australia.

When peacock blue flew over Christmas Island Nov eleven, 2014, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MRIS) took a noticeable image of the little coral reef.

The island is just one hundred thirty five sq kilometer in space - smaller than town of Washington, DC.

The island features a tropical equatorial climate with a wet season that runs from Dec to Gregorian calendar month. throughout the island's time of year, heat and wetness ar tempered by trade winds.

Although AN Australian territory, Christmas Island is found two,600 kilometer north-west of state capital, Australian state.

The island is legendary for land-dwelling red crabs that scramble to the ocean every Nov to unleash eggs.