Ailinginae
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Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
archipelago | Marshall Islands | |
Geographical location | 11 ° 10 ′ N , 166 ° 20 ′ E | |
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Number of islands | 25th | |
Main island | --- | |
Land area | 2.8 km² | |
Lagoon area | 105.96 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited |
Ailinginae is an uninhabited atoll in the Ralik chain of the Marshall Islands . The atoll is 27 by 9 km in size, it has a land area of 2.8 km², which encloses a lagoon of 105.96 km².
geography
The entire atoll is surrounded by a coral reef that extends mainly from west to east. The lagoon has two navigable accesses to the sea, Mogiri and Eniibukku , in the southern reef rim . The nearest atoll, Rongelap , is 16 miles away. The northern edge of the atoll is almost completely under water and only one well-known reef island (Motu Bokonikaiaru ) marks the northwest corner of the atoll. Most of the other motu are on the southern edge of the reef. Well-known are: Sifo , Mogiri , Enibuk , Pigessharukku , Bokanchinre , Churea (Knox Island), Majokoryaan , Bokoryuren and Charaien .
Casuarines and coconut palms grow on the atoll .
history
After the Bravo bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll , the fallout also reached Ailinginae. He was described as "like a fog". Eighteen residents of Rongelap who were fishing and collecting copra on the island of Ailinginae were severely contaminated by the radioactive dust, including four pregnant women. They were exposed to an average radiation exposure of 69 x-rays .
Individual evidence
- ^ Radioactive Fallout in the Marshall Islands. Science, New Series 122 (No. 3181, Dec. 16) 1955, 1178
- ^ Radioactive Fallout in the Marshall Islands. Science, New Series 122 (No. 3181, Dec. 16), 1955, 1178
- ^ Stuart Kirsch, Lost Worlds: Environmental Disaster, "Culture Loss," and the Law. Current Anthropology 42/2 (April 2001), 169
- ^ Radioactive Fallout in the Marshall Islands. Science, New Series 122 (No. 3181, Dec. 16) 1955, 1178