Marshall Islands
Population
11,628 peopleCapital
UligaCurrency
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Area in square kilometers
181 km2 Republic of the Marshall IslandsAolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ
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Motto: "Jepilpilin ke ejukaan" ("Accomplishment through Joint Effort")
Anthem: Forever Marshall Islands
Capital
Majuro (Delap)
7°7′N 171°4′E / 7.117°N 171.
The Marshall Islands were settled by Micronesians in the 2nd
millennium BC. Little is known of this early history. People traveled
by canoe between islands using traditional stick charts.
Administrative Center of the Marshall Islands atoll remained Jaluit.
The Japanese were unlike the German Empire, which had primarily
economic interests in Micronesia.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands covers nearly a million square
miles of coral atolls, islands and deep blue ocean and is one of the
most unique places in the world to visit.
The Marshall Islands is comprised of 29 atolls and five single
islands, which form two parallel groups-the "Ratak" (sunrise) chain
and the "Ralik" (sunset) chain. Two-thirds of the nation's population
lives in Majuro and Ebeye.
The Marshall Islands were claimed by Spain in
1874.
Germany established a protectorate in 1885 and set up trading stations
on the islands of Jaluit and Ebon to carry out the flourishing copra
(dried coconut meat) trade.
Marshall Islands, the United States recognized the constitution of the
Marshall Islands and the establishment of the Government of the
Republic of the Marshall Islands. The constitution incorporates both
American and British constitutional concepts.
Marshall Islands were made part of the UN Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands under U.S. jurisdiction in 1947. Bikini and Enewetak
atolls served as testing grounds for U.S. nuclear weapons from 1946 to
1958.
islands were later occupied, and the Marshall Islands remained under
U.S. control until the end of the war. In 1946, Bikini atoll, part of
the archipelago, was used by the U.S. as a nuclear testing ground. The
Marshalls became self-governing in 1979.
Marshall Islands, a group of coral atolls and reefs located 2,000
nautical miles southwest of Hawaii. Seized by Japan in 1914, the
Marshall Islands were granted as a mandate to Japan after World War I
by the League of Nations.
The Marshall Islands are a group of atolls and reefs in the Pacific
Ocean, about half-way between Hawaii and Australia.
The Marshall Islands consist of two island chains of 30 atolls and
1,152 islands, of low coral limestone and sand. Bikini and Enewetak
are former US nuclear test sites; Kwajalein, the famous World War II
battleground, is now used as a US missile test range.
time in the Marshall Islands and that you can pay for your way to
leave, or demonstrate that you've already purchased what you need to
leave the islands. When you leave the islands, you must pay a $20 tax.
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The Marshall Islands is a
parliamentary democracy, and its close relationship with the United
States is memorialized in the Compact of Free Association between the
two nations. It has a developing agrarian and service-oriented
economy.
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The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located
north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of
Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island.
Marshall Islands' waters in the 1830s to 1850s. By the 1860s, the
production of copra (dried coconut) dominated European interest in the
islands.
Spain claimed the Marshall Islands in 1874. Following papal mediation
and German compensation of US$4.
Micronesia, including the Marshall Islands, as the Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands.
Between 1946 and 1958, the US tested 67 nuclear weapons in the
Marshall Islands, including the largest nuclear test the U.S.
short form: Marshall Islands local long form: Republic of the Marshall
Islands local short form: Marshall Islands abbreviation: RMI former:
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Marshall Islands District
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The Marshall Islands received more than $1 billion in aid from the US
from 1986-2002. Agricultural production, primarily subsistence, is
concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are
coconuts and breadfruit.
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The Marshall Islands Visitors Authority is pleased to announce that
the Marshalls Billfish Club’s Annual July Fishing Tournament,
celebrating its 29nd year, has been scheduled for July 1-2, 2011.
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Map of the Republic of The Marshall IslandsMap of Marshall Islands
President: Kessai H. Note (2000)
Total area: 70 sq mi (181 sq km), includes the atolls of Bikini,
Eniwetok, and Kwajalein
Population (2010 est.): 65,859 (growth rate: 2.
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The Marshall Islands, east of the Carolines, are divided into two
chains: the western, or Ralik, group, including the atolls Jaluit,
Kwajalein, Wotho, Bikini, and Eniwetok; and the eastern, or Ratak,
group, including the atolls Mili, Majuro, Maloelap, Wotje, and Likiep.
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is a sovereign Micronesian
island nation located in the
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands was first settled in about 1,000
BC by people of Mayo/Polynesian stock. It was visited by Spanish
navigators in the 16th century seeking a westerly route to the Spice
Islands.
Marshall Islands canoe from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection
Japan governed the islands from WWI to WW2. Following WW2, the United
States serves as an administrator under the United Nations Trust
Territory created for all Micronesia.
The Marshall Islands occupy a vast expanse of
ocean in the west-central Pacific, from 2,000 to 3,000 miles (3,220 to
4,830 kilometers) south and west of Hawaii.
Since World War II the capital of the Marshall Islands has
been located on Majuro, in the southern part of the Ratak chain.
The independent Marshall Islands is perhaps too new to have
developed core symbols, metaphors, or traditions, but the image of the
rising and setting sun, emblematic of the Ratak "facing toward the
windward" (sunrise) and Rālik "facing toward the leeward" (sunset)
symbolism forms
In 1979, the Government of the Marshall Islands was officially
established and the country became self-governing.
In 1986, the Compact of Free Association with the United States
entered into force, granting the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(RMI) its sovereignty. The Compact provided for aid and U.S.
carrier Air Marshall Islands is based here in this airport but
operates domestic, inter-island flights only. Continental Airlines,
operated by its subsidiary Continental Micronesia, flies into Majuro
from Chuuk, Guam, Honolulu, Kosrae, Kwajalein and Pohnpei.
Air Marshall Islands provides domestic services between many of the
islands and atolls. The main hubs are Majuro and Kwjalein, between the
two it takes around 50 minutes one way.
By Car
Affordable cars can be rented at Majuro and most roads are paved.
secondary institution-the 2-year College of the Marshall Islands-has
experienced U.S. accreditation problems since 2003. However, thanks to
an increase in funding, it has shown steady improvement since and is
heading toward full accreditation.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has four court systems: Supreme
Court, high court, district and community courts, and the traditional
rights court. Trial is by jury or judge.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands maintains an embassy at 2433
Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel. 202-234-5414). It
has a consulate at 1888 Lusitana St., Suite 301, Honolulu, HI 96813
(tel. 808-545-7767), and small embassies in Tokyo, Suva, and Taipei.
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(RMI), is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean,
located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of
Micronesia and south of the U.S.
Although the Marshall Islands were settled by Micronesians in the 2nd
millennium BC, little is known of their early history.
Map of the Marshall Islands Map of the Marshall
Islands
A German trading company settled on the islands in 1885, and they
became part of the protectorate of German New Guinea some years later.
The Marshall Islands form a ring of land only a few feet above sea
level, way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They're located
near the Equator and the International Date Line.
the Marshall Islands for testing nuclear weapons. In 1954 they ignited
the largest hydrogen bomb they'd ever built, doing it at a place
called Bikini Atoll.
This is where the Bikini swimsuit comes from.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands became a sovereign self-governing
nation in 1979. It's one of the most intriguing places in the world
for scuba divers, due to its coral reefs and graveyard of sunken naval
warships.
strategy not only in the Marshall Islands, but on all the other
mandated territories in Micronesia.
The Marshall Islands were in an important
geographical position, being the easternmost point in Japan's
defensive ring at the beginning of World War II.
In 1979, the Government of the Marshall Islands was officially
established and the country became self-governing.
In 1986, the Compact of Free Association with the United States
entered into force, granting the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(RMI) its sovereignty.
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