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Map of the Marshall Islands Aerial view of Majuro, one of the many atolls that make up the Marshall Islands Beach scenery at the islet of Eneko, Majuro View of the coast of Bikini Atoll from above View of Marshall Islands Kwajalein atoll is another important population center for the Marshall islands Closer view of Kwajalein atoll reveals a ...
Location of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In the Marshall Islands , a country in Micronesia, there are currently 4 listed sites located in three of the 24 atolls that make up the archipelago.
World Heritage Sites; Site Image Location Year listed UNESCO data Description Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site: Ralik Chain: Cultural (iv) (vi) 2010 In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago.
The British ships Charlotte and Scarborough visited the islands in 1788 under the commands of captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall, respectively. [38] The vessels had been part of the First Fleet taking convicts from England to Botany Bay in New South Wales, and were en route to Guangzhou when they passed through the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands. [39]
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]
The Marshallese recognized four main ocean swells: the rilib, kaelib, bungdockerik and bundockeing. [2] Navigators focused on effects of islands in blocking swells and generating counterswells to some degree, but they mainly concentrated on refraction of swells as they came in contact with undersea slopes of islands and the bending of swells around islands as they interacted with swells coming ...
Marshallese navigational chart, on display in Alele Museum in 2008 Marshallese navigational chart on display at Alele Museum. The museum's collection includes traditional tools, objects relating to housing, jewellery, drums, fishing apparatus, tattooing, weaving, canoes (and model canoes), and navigation, including stick charts, a Marshallese nautical tool used to memorise wave patterns.
In the Eastern Caroline islands (Ponape, and including the Marshall Islands from 1911) June 1886 – 1887, Capriles; 14 March 1887 – 1887, Isidro Posadillo (d. 1887) October 1887 – January 1891, Luis Cadarso y Rey (d. 1898) c.1894, Concha; before November 1897 – after November 1898, J. Fernández de Córdoba