Bokak

Bokak (Taongi)
NASA image by Bokak
Waters	Pacific Ocean
archipelago	Marshall Islands
Geographical location	14 ° 31 '  N , 169 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 31 '  N , 169 ° 0'  E
Number of islands	10
Main island	Sibylla Island (Bok-Ak)
Land area	2.0 km²
Lagoon area	48.5 km²
Residents	uninhabited (2002)
Map of the atoll

Bokak or Taongi (German outdated: Petrelinsel ; Gaspar Rico and Smyth Island) is the northernmost atoll of the Ratak chain and thus the northernmost land mass of the Marshall Islands . The uninhabited atoll has a land area of ​​1.25 km² with a lagoon area of ​​30.31 km². The atoll of Bikar, 280 km away, is closest to Bokak.

The main islands, seen from north to south, are:

• North Island
• Kamwome
• Bwdije (Bwideje)
• Sibylla Island (Jipila)
• Pokak (Bok-ak)
• Bwokwla (Bok-ḷā)

The atoll was discovered by Alonso de Salazar on August 21, 1526.

On the island are u. a. Frigate birds and the Australian tern are native.

literature

• James E. Maragos: Description of reefs and corals for the 1988 protected area survey of the Northern Marshall Islands, Atoll Research Bulletin, No. 419, August 1994 (PDF; 11.6 MB)
• David Stanley: Micronesien Handbuch; Verlag Gisela E. Walther; 1987; p.76

Web links

• Image and short description (Engl.) ( Memento of 23 December 2010 at the Internet Archive )
• Images and short description of birdlife (English)
• Geographical information (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Colonial Lexicon. Edited by Heinrich Schnee. - Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1920. - 3 vols.
2. ↑ Place Names of the Marshall Islands (from the PALI edition of the Marshallese-English Dictionary) (name variants)