Marshall Islands
Oceania · Untouched
- Capital
- Majuro
- Population
- 42K
- Area
- 181 km²
About Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands scatter across the central Pacific in two parallel chains of coral atolls, the Ratak and the Ralik. The capital, Majuro, curls around a lagoon on one such ring of islets. This Oceanian nation of low-lying atolls pairs a deep seafaring heritage of master ocean navigation with a history entwined with the nuclear age.
- The bikini swimsuit takes its name from Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where nuclear tests made headlines in 1946.
- Marshallese navigators traditionally crossed the Pacific using stick charts — frameworks of sticks and shells encoding ocean swell patterns.
- Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands encloses the world's largest lagoon within a slender coral ring nearly 300 kilometers long.
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