Ralik chain

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Ralik chain
Map of the Marshall Islands, to the west the Ralik chain
Map of the Marshall Islands, to the west the Ralik chain
Waters Pacific Ocean
archipelago Marshall Islands
Geographical location 8 ° 28 '  N , 167 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 8 ° 28 '  N , 167 ° 48'  E
Number of islands 18th
Main island Ebeye ( Kwajalein )
Total land area 93.31 km²
Residents 19,266
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The Ralik chain ( Marshallese Rālik ) is a chain of islands in the west of the territory of the Marshall Islands . The word rālik , which comes from the Marshallese language , means "sunset" (west). About 21,100 people live on the islands of the group.

Many of the islets that make up the atolls are uninhabited or uninhabitable for an indefinite period of time due to the high levels of radioactive radiation resulting from numerous American atomic bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s (e.g. Bikini Atoll ).

The Ralik chain is made up of the following atolls and isolated, that is, individual islands that do not belong to atolls:

Marshal flag

Flag of the Ralik Islands (Marshal flag) 1878–1894

From November 19, 1878 to March 7, 1894, the indigenous population of the Ralik Islands carried their own flag. It was recognized by the German Korvettenkapitän Bartholomäus von Werner , the commander of the SMS Ariadne , whose sailmaker presumably made it, "subject to the approval of the Imperial German Government" as a national flag. On March 7, 1894, the governor of the Marshall Islands, which had meanwhile become part of the German colony of German New Guinea , forbade the tour . The highest cabinet order of September 19, 1893 granted the locals the right to fly the imperial flag.

See also

  • Ratak chain (eastern chain of islands of the Marshall Islands)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The flag of the Ralik Islands. Jörg M. Karaschewski, archived from the original on April 15, 2007 ; accessed on January 2, 2020 (original website no longer available).