Mili

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Mili
NASA image by Mili
NASA image by Mili
Waters Pacific Ocean
archipelago Marshall Islands
Geographical location 6 ° 5 '  N , 171 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 6 ° 5 '  N , 171 ° 44'  E
Mili (Marshall Islands)
Mili
Number of islands 92
Main island Mili Island
Land area 15.93 km²
Lagoon area 763 km²
Residents 738 (2011)
Map of the Mili Atoll (1967)
Map of the Mili Atoll (1967)
Template: Infobox Atoll / Maintenance / HoeheFehlt

Mili (German outdated: Mulgraveinseln ) is an atoll of 92 islands in the Ratak chain in the Pacific Ocean . Administratively it belongs to the Marshall Islands .

The land area is 16 km², the area of ​​the lagoon 763 km². The largest town is also called Mili. Mili is littered with relics from the Second World War (bunkers, railway lines, artillery, aircraft). There are still some Japanese Zeros and an American B-25 bomber there. The island is still covered in craters from a 30-day bombardment that preceded the Allied invasion in 1944. The island was occupied by Japan from 1914 to 1944 . Other localities on Mili are Nallu, Enejet, Lukonor, Tokewa, and Wau. Nallu, Enejet and Lukonwor can only be reached from Mili at low tide. Mili and Enejet have small airfields.

In 2002 the population was 854. The atoll is separated from the smaller Knox Atoll by a canal, the Klee Passage .

The Globe Mutiny

1823 was the whaler Globe from Martha's Vineyard brought by his mutinous crew under Samuel B. Comstock by Mili, after he had killed the captain and three officers. A few days after landing, Comstock was murdered by his fellow mutineer, Silas Payne. Six crew members then fled by ship and left nine sailors on the island. By the time a rescue ship (the Dolphin clipper ) reached the island two years later, seven of them had been killed by locals.

literature

  • Thomas F. Heffernan: Mutiny on the Globe. The fateful journey of Samuel Comstock , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8333-0390-5
  • Hussey / Lay: A narrative of the mutiny on board the ship Globe , New London 1828, ( Download )
  • Carmen CH Petrosian-Husa: Anthropological Survey of Mili Atoll. (Anthropological Survey of Mili Atoll), Report 2005/3, Historic Preservation Office Majuro, Marshall Islands. ( Download )
  • Carmen CH Petrosian-Husa: Anthropological Survey of Mili Atoll, Appendices. (Anthropological Survey of Mili Atoll, Appendix), Report 2005/2, Historic Preservation Office, Majuro, Marshall Islands. ( Download )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Colonial Lexicon. Edited by Heinrich Schnee. - Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1920. - 3 vols.

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