Ailinginae Atoll

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Ailinginae Atoll

Ailinginae Atoll is an atoll of 25 islands in the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
. It is a legislative district of the Ralik Chain

Ralik Chain

The Ralik Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ralik means "sunset". , the total population of the Ralik islands is 19,915....
of the Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands , officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands , is a Micronesian island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator....
. Its total land area is only 1.08 miles², but that encloses a lagoon

Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
of 40.91 miles².

Ailinginae Atoll has been uninhabited since 1954 when the few islanders were evacuated due to nuclear fallout fears from the Castle Bravo

Castle Bravo

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a so-called dry fuel Nuclear fusion hydrogen bomb device, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, by the United States, as the first test of Operation Castle ....
at Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll is an atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Marshall Islands. It consists of 36 islands surrounding a lagoon....

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