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

The atolls and isolated islands in the chain are:

  • Bokak Atoll
    Bokak Atoll

    Bokak Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands, located in the North Pacific Ocean at . It is located 684 km north of Majuro Atoll, the Capital of the Marshall Islands, and 280 km north of Bikar Atoll, the closest atoll, making it the most northerly and most isolated atoll of the country....
  • Bikar Atoll
    Bikar Atoll

    Bikar Atoll is made up of 7 islands with a land area of 0.5 km? , surrounding a 37.4 km? lagoon. It is a part of the Ratak Chain of atolls of the Marshall Islands....
  • Utirik Atoll
    Utirik Atoll

    Utirik Atoll is an atoll of 10 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 0.94 miles?, but that encloses a lagoon of 22.29 miles?....
  • Taka Atoll
    Taka Atoll

    Taka Atoll is an atoll of 5 islets in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 0.57 km?, but that encloses a lagoon of 93.14 km?....
  • Mejit Island
    Mejit

    Mejit is one of the few islands in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. With an estimated population of 300 people, the island is lush in pandanus, breadfruit and taro....
  • Ailuk Atoll
    Ailuk Atoll

    Ailuk Atoll is an atoll of 57 islets in the Pacific Ocean, with a population of 488. It was also known as Krusenstern Island, though this may also refer to Krusenstern Island....
  • Jemo Island
    Jemo Island

    Jemo is an uninhabited island of the Marshall Islands north-east of Likiep Atoll. It is traditionally held as a food reserve for the family of Joachim and Lijoan deBrum,pass down from Iroijlaplap Jortoka Lobareo and is owned by the current Likiep land-owning families of Joachim debrum....
  • Likiep Atoll
    Likiep Atoll

    Likiep Atoll is an atoll of 65 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 3.96 miles?, but that encloses a lagoon of 163.71 miles?....
  • Wotje Atoll
    Wotje Atoll

    Wotje Atoll is an atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Wotje's land area of 3.16 sq mi is large and the main island is one of the widest in Marshall Islands....
  • Erikub Atoll
    Erikub Atoll

    The Erikub Atoll is an atoll located in the central area of the Ratak Chain in the Marshall Islands. The atoll lies slightly south of a slightly larger atoll called Wotje....
  • 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 ....
  • Aur Atoll
    Aur Atoll

    Aur Atoll is an atoll of 42 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 2.17 miles?, but that encloses a lagoon of 92.58 miles?....
  • Majuro Atoll
  • Arno Atoll
    Arno Atoll

    Arno Atoll is an atoll of 133 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is only 5 mi? ....
  • Mili Atoll
    Mili Atoll

    Mili Atoll is an atoll of 92 islands in the Ratak Chain in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is 6.15 mile? the second largest land area after Kwajelein, but it encloses a much smaller lagoon of 294.7 mile? ....
  • 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?....