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  2. Geography of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    The sea around Pacific islands has risen 7mm a year since 1993, which is more than twice the rate of the worldwide average. In Kwajalein , there is a high risk of permanent flooding; when sea level rise to 1 meter, 37% of buildings will be permanently flooded in that scenario.

  3. Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), [5] officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), [note 1] is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

  4. Outline of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Marshall Islands: Marshall Islands – sovereign Micronesian island nation located in the western North Pacific Ocean, north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim. [1]

  5. Ebon Atoll - Wikipedia

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    Ebon Atoll (Marshallese: Epoon, [ɛbʲɔːnʲ] [1]) is a coral atoll of 22 islands in the Pacific Ocean, forming a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is 5.75 square kilometers (2.22 sq mi), and it encloses a deep lagoon with an area of 104 square kilometers (40 sq mi).

  6. Namu Atoll - Wikipedia

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    Namu Atoll (Marshallese: Naṃo, [1]) is a coral atoll of 54 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.Its total land area is only 6.27 square kilometers (2.42 sq mi), but that encloses a lagoon of 397 square kilometers (153 sq mi).

  7. Knox Atoll - Wikipedia

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    Knox Atoll was claimed by the German Empire along with the rest of the Marshall Islands in 1885. [2] After World War I , the island came under the South Seas Mandate of the Empire of Japan . Following the end of World War II , it came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the ...

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  9. List of islands in the Pacific Ocean - Wikipedia

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    The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.