Mili Atoll

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Mili Atoll

Mili Atoll is an atoll

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
of 92 islands in the Ratak Chain

Ratak Chain

The Ratak Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ratak means "sunrise". , the total population of the Ratak islands is 30,925....
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 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 6.15 mile² (16 km²) the second largest land area after Kwajelein, but it encloses a much smaller lagoon

Lagoon

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Mili Atoll is an atoll

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
of 92 islands in the Ratak Chain

Ratak Chain

The Ratak Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ratak means "sunrise". , the total population of the Ratak islands is 30,925....
in the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Marshall Islands

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....
(compared to Kwajelien) of 294.7 mile² (763 km²). It has more land than most of the other atolls. On Mili, Mili the main airstrip actually runs across the widest part of the island. The original concrete airstrip built by the Japanese is still largely intact. However, the remaining branches off this airstrip are covered by jungle.

The main village is also called Mili. Mili, Mili (like New York, New York

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is littered with thousands of old World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
relics. The law forbids these items from being removed from the island. Mostly what remains are large bunker

Bunker

A military bunker is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks....
systems, rail systems, old artillery pieces and downed aircraft that remain intact today. Examples includes Japanese Zeroes and a B-25 Mitchell

B-25 Mitchell

The North American B-25 Mitchell was an American twin-engined medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. It was used by many Allies of World War II air forces, in every theater of World War II, as well as many other air forces after the war ended, and saw service across four decades....
bomber sitting in just several feet of water. The ground is still covered with craters created by the artillery

Artillery

Artillery is a military Combat Arms which employs any apparatus, machine, an assortment of tools or instruments, a system or systems used as weapons for the discharge of large projectiles in combat as a major contribution of fire power within the overall military capability of an armed force....
campaigns that lasted 30 days to "prep" the island for the Allied invasion. The Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese occupied the island from 1914 to 1944, heavily influencing the culture. Other well known villages are Nallu, Enejet, Lukonor, Tokewa, and Wau, Mili. Nallu, Enejet and Lukonwor are only accessible from Mili by land during lowtide. Only Mili, Mili and Enejet, Mili have runways for small planes.

The population of the islands in the atoll is 1032 as of 1999. The atoll is separated by a water channel

Channel (geography)

In physical geography, a channel is the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks.A channel is also the natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar , bay, or any shallow body of water....
called the Klee Passage

Klee Passage

Klee Passage is a shallow channel of water which separates Knox Atoll from Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands.A submarine sand bank is located directly under the water channel....
from the Knox Atoll

Knox Atoll

Knox Atoll is known as Nadikdik Atoll by the Marshallese. It is the southernmost atoll in the Ratak Chain in the Marshall Islands. It contains 18 islands as well as numerous smaller emergent islets with a total area of 0.98 km?, that enclose a largely sand-filled lagoonal basin which covers a total area of 3.42 km?....
which is considerably smaller.

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