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Kaben or Kaven is a small island in the Maloelap Atoll
Maloelap Atoll

The Maloelap Atoll is an atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is only , but that encloses a lagoon of ....
  in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Together with a few other small islands, it is grouped together as a part of the "outer islands" of the Marshalls and is situated at the northwestern most tip of the atoll. It is the largest island and one of the few inhabited ones on the atoll
Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
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Kaben is a small island, no more than 2.5 kilometers long and a kilometer across.






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Kaben or Kaven is a small island in the Maloelap Atoll
Maloelap Atoll

The Maloelap Atoll is an atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is only , but that encloses a lagoon of ....
  in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Together with a few other small islands, it is grouped together as a part of the "outer islands" of the Marshalls and is situated at the northwestern most tip of the atoll. It is the largest island and one of the few inhabited ones on the atoll
Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
.

Kaben is a small island, no more than 2.5 kilometers long and a kilometer across. The island has around 1 square mile in area. It is almost rectangularly-shaped, with a slight hooklike protruberance on the northeastern region of the island. Kaben is lightly inhabited, having had a few man-made structures erected along its southeast coast.

Historically, the island has been claimed by the Iroij, royalty of the islands, as their personal property prohibiting peasant islanders from fishing the island's waters. Fishing by local islanders only resumed when an official government for the islands was formed and permisible fishing was officially declared. As the largest island in the atoll, Iroij coronation events have traditionally taken place on Kaben. The island has several myths and legends surrounding it and its remote waters.

The fauna of the island is similar to that of the other islands in the Marshalls. Terrestrial fauna is limited to small crustacean
Crustacean

Crustaceans are a large group of arthropods, comprising almost 52,000 described species , and are usually treated as a subphylum . They include various familiar animals, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles....
s such as the hermit crabs Coenobita
Coenobita

The genus Coenobita contains about thirteen species of terrestrial animal hermit crabs. They are able to live on land because of their modified gills, although they still require a warm, humid environment....
 and land crabs from the family Gecarcinidae. Historically, the island has been cited as the home for a large population of edible coconut crab
Coconut crab

The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world and is probably at the limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can get under the prevailing conditions....
s.

The island has an airport, Kaben Airport . However, airport is a misnomer. It is a simple landing strip
Landing strip

A landing strip is a type of hairstyle.For woman, a landing strip typically refers to a cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle....
 without any major airport facilities. In a 2000 technical assistance report by the Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank is a Multilateral development bank established in 1966 to promote economic and social development in Asian and Pacific countries through loans and technical assistance....
, it was suggested that for infrastructure development, the runways of several airstrips throughout the Marshall Islands including the one on Kaben be rehabilitated. This rehabilitation was suggested to include de-forestation of the vegetation surrounding the airstrip and the construction of adequate aero-navigational facilities.

See also

  • Geography of the Marshall Islands
    Geography of the Marshall Islands

    The Marshalls consist of 29 atolls and five major islands, which form two parallel groups--the "Ratak" chain and the "Ralik" chain. Two-thirds of the nation's population lives in Majuro and Ebeye....


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