Enubuj
| Enubuj | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Kwajalein Atoll | |
| Geographical location | 8 ° 45 ' N , 167 ° 41' E | |
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Enubuj (also: CARLSON WW2 , Enebuoj , Enibujii , Eniibuji-tō , Eniibuuji To ) is an island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Ralik chain in the oceanic state of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
geography
The Motu is located in the southern edge of the atoll near the main island of Kwajalein in the east. West of the South Pass is the nearest island, Ennylabegan .
On Enubuj there is a historical radio station from the Second World War (Enubuj JP Radio Station WW2).
To the north of the island lies the wreck of the German cruiser Prinz Eugen , which capsized and sunk on December 22, 1946 and served as a target ship during Operation Crossroads . The stern of the ship is still clearly visible protruding from the water. For the atoll, the wreck represented an unsolved environmental problem for a long time. Inside the ship, around 1,000 m³ of oil were still in the bunkers . In 2018, almost all of the fuel was pumped out by a US Navy salvage unit. 159 of 173 tanks could be emptied in this way. The remaining 14 tanks (about 3% of the total stock) were inaccessible to the divers, but are classified as leakproof and therefore harmless in the long term.
climate
The climate is tropical hot, but is tempered by constantly blowing winds. Like the other places of the Kwajalein group, Enubuj is occasionally hit by cyclones .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enubuj. In: GeoNames . Retrieved January 14, 2021 .
- ↑ Ingo Bauernfeind: Radioactive for all eternity - The fate of the Prinz Eugen . ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8132-0928-0 , p. 93 .
- ↑ Marc von Lüpke: German cruiser "Prinz Eugen": The ship that survived the atomic bomb. In: Spiegel Online . March 22, 2017, accessed February 10, 2021 .
- ↑ Clyde Shavers: US Navy divers recover oil from wrecked WWII ship Prinz Eugen. In: cpf.navy.mil . October 15, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2019 .