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Marshall Islander fish trap, circa 1940s. The culture of the Marshall Islands forms part of the wider culture of Micronesia. It is marked by pre-Western contact and the impact of that contact on its people afterward. The Marshall Islands were relatively isolated. Inhabitants developed skilled navigators, able to navigate by the currents to ...
The Marshall Islands is the only country in the world that does not have a national football team. [149] The Marshall Islands is therefore the only sovereign country in the world that does not have a record of a national football match. [150]
The Marshall Islands is a dynamic place with a dark past and uncertain future, yet not many people know about it. You probably never heard of this destination: 6 cool facts about The Marshall ...
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.
Man acting out a word in the game of charades. Charades (UK: / ʃ ə ˈ r ɑː d z /, US: / ʃ ə ˈ r eɪ d z /) [1] is a parlor or party word guessing game.Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades : a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed.
The 2010 Micronesian Games were initially due to be held in Majuro (Marshall Islands), until the hosts withdrew. The 2010 Games were hosted by Palau . [ 1 ] The Federated States of Micronesia won the bidding to host the 2014 Micronesian Games in Pohnpei State , and later won again against CNMI for the 2018 Micronesian Games, held in Yap State .
The remaining 11 atolls/islands are currently uninhabited. According to the Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the uninhabited atolls/islands Narikrik, Erikub, Jemo, Taka, Bikar, Bokak, Rongrik and Ailinginae shall each be included in the electoral district with which it is most closely associated, pursuant to the customary law or any traditional practice. [2]
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.