Utirik Atoll

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Utirik Atoll

Utirik Atoll (also Utrik or Utrok) is an atoll of 10 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 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....
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 0.94 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 22.29 miles².

The population of Utirik Atoll is 409http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Indiv%20Atolls/Republic%20of%20the%20Marshall%20Islands%20-%20Utirik%20Atoll.htm; it is one of the northernmost Marshall Islands with permanent habitation.

The larger islands are:

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