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Islands and atolls of the Marshall Islands. Uninhabited ones are labeled in grey. Population distribution in the 2010s. The Republic of Marshall Islands consists of 30 atolls (each made up of many islets) and 5 islands, which can be divided into two island chains, Ralik Chain and Ratak Chain.
The Ratak Chain (Ratak [rˠɑːdˠɑk], [1] Marshallese for 'sunrise') is a chain of islands and atolls within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ratak means "sunrise". It lies to the east of the country's other island chain, the Ralik Chain. In 1999, the total population of the Ratak islands was 30,925. [citation needed]
The Marshall Islands are the site of a number of seamounts. These volcanoes form several groups, including the Ralik Chain , the Ratak Chain and some seamounts around Anewetak . [ 1 ] These seamounts are in turn part of a larger province that extends from the South Pacific to the Mariana Trench and is characterized by unusually shallow ocean ...
The Marshall Islands consist of two archipelagic island chains of 30 atolls and 1,152 islands, which form two parallel groups—the "Ratak" (sunrise) chain and the "Ralik" (sunset) chain. The Marshalls are located in the North Pacific Ocean and share maritime boundaries with Micronesia and Kiribati.
Map from National Atlas of the United States. Kwajalein is the 14th largest coral atoll as measured by area of enclosed water. Comprising 97 islands and islets, it has a land area of 16.4 km 2 (6.3 sq mi) and surrounds one of the largest lagoons in the world, with an area of 2,174 km 2 (839 sq mi).
People from the Marshall Islands by island chain (2 C) R. Ralik Chain (6 C, 23 P) Ratak Chain (6 C, 17 P) U. Uninhabited islands of the Marshall Islands (10 P)
Namdrik Atoll or Namorik Atoll (Marshallese: Naṃdik, [nʲɑmˠ(wi)rʲik] [2]) is a coral atoll of two islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 2.8 square kilometers (1.1 sq mi), but it encloses a lagoon with an area of 8.4 square kilometers (3.2 sq mi).
Ebeye is the most populous island of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the center for Marshallese culture in the Ralik Chain of the archipelago. It comprises 80 acres (32 ha). Kwajalein is one of the largest coral atolls in the world, consisting of 97 main islands, of which Ebeye is one.
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