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	Bikini Island History
		Bikini Atoll is one of the 29 atolls and five islands that compose the Marshall Islands.
		Throughout the conflict the Bikini station served as an outpost for the Japanese headquarters in the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein Atoll.
		The islands of Rongerik Atoll were uninhabited because, traditionally, the Marshallese people considered them to be unlivable due to their size (Rongerik is 1/6 the size of Bikini Atoll) and because they had an inadequate water and food supply.
	members.tripod.com /bikini_atoll/index.html (3761 words)

	Marshall Islands: Bikini Atoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bikini Atoll is one of two sites in the northern Marshall Islands used by the United States for testing of atmospheric nuclear weapons.
		During this period, predictive dose assessments for both Bikini and Enewetak Atolls clearly indicated that the most significant pathway for human exposure to residual fallout contamination in the Marshall Islands was ingestion of cesium-137 contained in locally grown produce such as coconut, breadfruit and Pandanus (Robison et al.
		Bikini Atoll is one of two sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands that was used by the United States for testing of atmospheric nuclear weapons.
	eed.llnl.gov /mi/bikini.php (1798 words)

	CDNN :: Dive Bikini Atoll, Dive Godzilla’s Home
		Indeed, Bikini's striking beauty is largely a result of its isolation, for it was virtually deserted until it was opened to tourists last year.
		After all, Bikini atoll became known in the 1940's and 1950's when the United States dropped 23 atomic and hydrogen bombs on it.
		Bikini atoll is a horseshoe-shaped string of 23 islands surrounding a spectacular turquoise lagoon.
	www.cdnn.info /news/article/a970330.html (1484 words)

	Bikini Atoll - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bikini Atoll was the site of extensive post-WWII US atomic bomb testing - a demonstration of might that served to cement the unprecedented power held by the US at the end of the war.
		Bikini is a symbol of nuclear colonialism in the Pacific; a time when weapons of poison and mass destruction were tested far from the home shores of the nations testing them, in the Pacific Islands and the deserts of Australia.
		The lagoon of Bikini Atoll remains home to sixteen ships sunk during Operation Crossroads in 1946- a remarkable assemblage of war technology; ten of these are accessible to divers, forming the basis of small-scale tourism operations.
	whc.unesco.org /fr/listesindicatives/2065 (427 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- 50 years on, nuclear blast felt on Bikini Atoll
		BIKINI ATOLL, Marshall Islands – At first glance, it looks like a tropical paradise: an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where palm trees encircling a pristine blue-green lagoon sway in the breeze.
		The atoll became a test site for what would turn out to be a total of 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests to gauge the effects the blasts would have on warships and to maintain America's nuclear superiority.
		The people of Bikini Atoll want the U.S government to fulfill a promise it made more than half a century ago – to restore their homeland to the way it was prior to nuclear testing.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040301-0500-life-bikiniatoll.html (1066 words)

	Scuba Dive Bikini Atoll - Wreck Dive Bikini Lagoon, Micronesia - Operation Crossroads - Scuba Dive Travel, Dive ...
		Bikini Atoll was opened for diving in 1996 allowing divers to experience some of the most historic and amazing wreck diving in the world.
		Bikini Lagoon is the final resting place of some of the finest WW2-era naval vessels.
		Amenities: Bikini Atoll Divers is a full-service PADI dive operator with a new dive boat and 30' fishing boat.
	www.diveadventures.com /pages/destinations/Micronesia/bikini_lagoon.htm (478 words)

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		Bikini Atoll is located in the northwestern Marshall Islands and was used by the Government of the United States as a testing site for nuclear weapons from 1946 to 1958.
		The Bikinians have not had use of their atoll since March 7, 1946, and this loss of use will continue on into the future until the necessary remediation takes place to restore full use and habitability.
		The period of relocation to Rongerik Atoll from 1946 to 1947 was the most severe with the Bikini community suffering from starvation.
	www.nuclearclaimstribunal.com /biksum.htm (757 words)

	Dive Girl: Bikini Atol - wreck diving, USS Saratoga, Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When Bikini Atoll opened for diving in 1996, after hearing from others how amazing the ships on Bikini were, I began to get the idea that I wanted to go back to my homeland to dive there.
		On Bikini Atoll there are nine ships to dive on, most notably is the USS Saratoga, a 900 foot long aircraft carrier that is bigger than the Titanic.
		Bikini is like a human to us, like a brother or a sister, and for that long period time when we were away from our islands, to my people, it was if a relative had died.
	www.divegirl.com /bikini.html (2081 words)

	Bikini Atoll - Example
		The story of the Bikinians relocations is probably the most notable of the Marchallese relocations as the people of the Bikini atoll have endured several moves since 1946 and still have not completely returned to their homeland.
		The distance (about 425 miles to the south) and quality of life are mentioned due to the fact that the Bikini Atoll had a total land area of about 3 square miles vs. Kili Island with a total land area of 0.36 square miles.
		March 14 1948: The Bikini evacuees are moved to a temporary camp on the Kwajalein Navy base.
	www.mste.uiuc.edu /users/dildine/lis450/bikini.html (584 words)

	Bikini Atoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bikini Atoll is known for its wonderful wreck diving.
		Bikini Atoll Divers is a full-service PADI dive operator with a new dive boat, air-conditioned accommodations and a good restaurant.
		All water on Bikini for drinking and bathing is made with a high-tech reverse osmosis plant.
	pacificislandtravel.com /micronesia/about_destin/marshall_bikini.html (555 words)

	Diving the Shipwrecks of Bikini Atoll
		Bikini Atoll is a part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
		Bikini is the second stop after the first stop on the Atoll of Kwajalien.
		Bikini airport is basically a wooden shack on the edge of a cleared field.
	www.bsac14.org.uk /bikini.htm (6188 words)

	Dildine - 450 atolls
		Finally, nearly 30 million years from the start of the process the island is completely submerged and the reef that is formed becomes an atoll consisting of several islands and a lagoon in the middle.
		Notably, the islands that make up these atolls (Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, Utrik) are located in the northern end of the Marshall Islands which is typically a drier and more temperate climate, and while still subject to frequent typhoons, are less likely than the southern atolls and islands.
		Like Bikini, this atoll was used as a nuclear test site and as such the population was evacuated to Ujelang.
	www.mste.uiuc.edu /users/dildine/lis450/atolls.html (549 words)

	Bikini History
		The Bikini islanders' life of harmony drew to an abrupt close when the Japanese decided to build and maintain a watchtower on their island to guard against an American invasion of the Marshalls.
		Throughout the conflict the Bikini station served as an outpost for the Japanese military headquarters in the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein Atoll.
		Kili differs substantially from Bikini because it is only a single island of one-third of a square mile in land area with no lagoon--compared to the Bikinians' homeland of 23 islands that form a calm lagoon and have a land area of 3.4 square miles.
	www.bikiniatoll.com /history.html (5180 words)

	Bikini Atoll
		The Bikini Atoll tests are probably one of the most controversial events that took place during World War II.
		Spring 1954: The Bravo test is performed on a reef in the northwestern Bikini Atoll, despite repeated warnings from weather stations.
		The Rongerik, Utirik, Ujelang, and Likiep Atolls are all declared off-limits.
	home1.gte.net /lisaiman/connections/bikini.htm (990 words)

	Earlham College - Geology 211 - Template
		Atolls are coral islands that form around the flanks of volcanic islands.
		Atolls form on basaltic foundations close to sea level, however as they sink the reef keeps building.
		Enewetak Atoll, along with Bikini, consists of 1200 meters of Tertiary and Quatenary carbonate sidements overlying an olivine basaltic foundation.
	www.earlham.edu /~danglha/BikiniandAnewetakAtolls.htm (815 words)

	Bikini Atoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 6.0-square-kilometer atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean at 11°30′N 165°25′E.
		In the episode Dying for Pie, a bomb disguised as a pie violently explodes on impact with the Squidward character.
		Brief footage of the Crossroads BAKER A-Bomb test at Bikini is shown, and in Pressure (Spongebob Squarepants episode) Sandy tells Spongebob Squarepants (character), Patrick Star, Eugene H. Krabs, and Squidward Tentacales to go on Bikini Atoll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bikini_Atoll (619 words)

	Conditions at Bikini Atoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bikini Atoll is located 850 kilometers northwest of Majuro on the northern fringe of the Marshall Islands and is composed of more than 23 islands and islets.
		Bikini and Eneu are the only islands of the atoll that have had a permanent population.
		By this means, Bikini Atoll, as well as all other atolls in the Republic, were to be monitored for radioactive residues.
	www-ns.iaea.org /appraisals/bikini-atoll.htm (1310 words)

	New Partisan - New Partisan - - The Spoiled Coconuts of Bikini Atoll
		Lowry, 48, was a major Bikini Atoll landholder and village leader when we shared that midday snack in 1969 on the island of Airukiraru – a smiling nuclear nomad who thought he had come home at last.
		Between 1946 and 1958, the pleasant atoll 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii was scrubbed of vegetation and badly scarred by nuclear firestorms.
		Since their beloved atoll was found still unsafe in the 1970s, the twice-exiled people have insisted that the entire island of Bikini be excavated and the toxic topsoil gouged out to a depth of 15 inches.
	www.newpartisan.com /home/the-spoiled-coconuts-of-bikini-atoll.html (1209 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Bikini Atoll bomb test remembered
		The US test on tiny Bikini Atoll in the Marshall islands contaminated a passing Japanese fishing boat and showered nearby villagers with radioactive ash.
		Both the surviving Japanese fishermen and the former inhabitants of Bikini Atoll are still agitating for compensation.
		Tibon Bejiko, a 72-year-old islander, who left Bikini in 1946, told the BBC that the atoll's inhabitants agreed to co-operate with the US then because they were promised that Washington would look after them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3522243.stm (581 words)

	Planet Ark : 50 Years Later, Nuclear Blast Felt on Bikini Atoll
		BIKINI ATOLL, Marshall Islands - At first glance, it looks like a tropical paradise: an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where palm trees encircling a pristine blue-green lagoon sway in the breeze.
		But to the native islanders, Bikini Atoll is more like an exhausted, scorched wasteland, where they eke out an existence in a place that today is forgotten by much of the world.
		The people of Bikini Atoll want the U.S government to fulfill a promise it made more than half a century ago - to restore their homeland to the way it was prior to nuclear testing.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/24077/story.htm (1312 words)

	Dive Global Destination :: Bikini Atoll
		Bikini Atoll is located approximately 600 miles northwest of Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Island Group.
		At Bikini, you will witness firsthand the effects of a nuclear explosion on warships, as these are the only ships in the world ever sunk by an atomic bomb.
		Bikini's second largest wreck and perhaps, the most historically significant, the Nagato was the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
	diveglobal.com /explore_destinations/destinations/micronesia/bikini.asp (650 words)

	Operation Crossroads, Nuclear Tests at Bikini
		The islands of the Bikini Atoll were used primarily as recreation and instrumentation sites.
		Before the first test, all personnel were evacuated from the target fleet and Bikini Atoll.
		These men were placed on units of the support fleet, which sortied from Bikini Lagoon and took safe positions at least 10 nautical miles (18.5 kilometers) east of the atoll.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq76-1.htm (1152 words)

	Bella Union \| Artists \| Bikini Atoll
		Bikini Atoll are the brainchild of vocalist / guitarist / songwriter Joe Gideon, a man possessed by some dark but beautiful demons.
		Bikini Atoll are named after the island in the north Pacific that was bombed to hell by the USA as part of a series of atom and hydrogen bomb tests between 1945 and 1962 ‘for the good of Mankind’.
		Bikini Atoll will also be heading out on a full european tour in spring 2006.
	www.bellaunion.com /artist.php?artcode=bikiniatoll (376 words)

	California Diving News - Travel: Bikini Atoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bikini Atoll and the Bikini Lagoon is the most famous of these islands due to the large number of naval vessels sunk there during the US testing of atomic bombs just after the conclusion of WWII.
		Bikini is a wreck diver’s paradise and the ultimate place to get away from it all.
		Bikini is also home to a plethora of history, including the largest diveable ship wreck in the world, the aircraft-carrier USS Saratoga.
	www.saintbrendan.com /cdnapril04/BikiniAtoll.html (440 words)

	Bikini Atoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1946 Bikini atoll was the location selected for "Operation Crossroads", a sequence of tests designed to investigate the effect of atomic bombs on warships.
		Fallout from Operation Crossroads and subsequent bomb tests made the islands of Bikini atoll uninhabitable, but contamination has now declined to a point where it is once again safe to visit.
		Underneath the upturned hulls of the battleships Nagato and Arkansas are enormous main gun turrets.
	www.liddiard.demon.co.uk /photoix/bikini/bikini.htm (449 words)

	Bikini Atoll with Marshalls Dive Adventures
		Bikini was once the site of the postwar nuclear tests code named "Operation Crossroads" and its lagoon now offers a collection of wrecks with major historical significance.
		Bikini Atoll is located approximately 600 miles northwest of Majuro, the capital.
		Check out The Bikini Atoll Home Page for all the information you need to know about the Bikinian People, their islands, their history, nuclear testing and the ships in the lagoon.
	www.rreinc.com /bikini.html (1550 words)

	Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bikini Atoll (and two near-by atolls) adopted in 1987 a flag to recall the American government's responsibility in the nuclear pollution and its obligations to the islanders.
		The 23 white stars in the field of blue in the upper left hand corner of the flag represent the islands of Bikini Atoll.
		It seems that the peculiar (anti)US-shaped flag of the Bikini Atoll is official.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/mh-xbn.html (342 words)

	Bikini — Infoplease.com
		Bikini was declared safe for habitation in 1969.
		How to look great in a bikini: you may not believe it, but even this British actress-model-goddess has had a hard time facing the......
		Our crash course on the bikini: this wet wear is as close as you can get to being naked in public without risking arrest.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0807551.html (335 words)

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