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Ujelang Atoll is an atoll of 30 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....
. The largest island is also called Ujelang. Eimnlapp, Kalo and Daisu are much smaller. 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 0.67 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 25.47 miles².

Ujelang Atol is uninhabited since some years after 1980. It was the private property of German trading companies since 1880, who maintained copra-plantations on the largest island, also called Ujelang.






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Ujelang Atoll is an atoll of 30 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....
. The largest island is also called Ujelang. Eimnlapp, Kalo and Daisu are much smaller. 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 0.67 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 25.47 miles².

Ujelang Atol is uninhabited since some years after 1980. It was the private property of German trading companies since 1880, who maintained copra-plantations on the largest island, also called Ujelang. In 1935 there were only some 40 inhabitants left. The island became the relocation island for the people of Eniwetok Atoll in 1947 (due to atomic tests on that island from 1948-1958). The population on Ujelang grew from 145 in 1947 to 342 in 1973, despite near-famine and epidemics, especially in the fifties, due to the scarce supply of fish and vegetables. After the clean-up of Eniwetok all inhabitants returned to that island in 1980. A hundred or so soon returned back to Ujelang because Eniwetok could not support them, but their stay on Ujelang was short-lived. In 1989 Ujelang was uninhabited. It is now very rarely visited and has only the former headquarters of the German copra company on the main island as a reminder of its past.