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  Ebeye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ebeye is the most populous island of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the center for Marshallese culture in the Ralik Chain of the archipelago.
Some of the residents of Ebeye are refugees or descendants of refugees from the effects of the cataclysmic 15 megaton "Bravo" nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
Originally, Ebeye was called and written Ebeje, but the colonial German administration mispronounced the J as if it were German language pronunciation, and foreign observers phonetically recorded the name as Ebeye.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ebeye   (272 words)

  
 HRI/CORE/1/Add.95 - Core Document - Marshall Islands
Ebeye has a population of more than 12,800 on 0.14 square miles of land - a population density of over 90,000 people per square mile.
The population of Ebeye has continued to grow over the years as people from throughout the Marshall Islands (and elsewhere in Micronesia) are attracted to job opportunities at the nearby military base.
The per capita income in the urban centres of Majuro and Ebeye is over $1,700 per year, whereas the per capita income in the outer islands is between $200 and $600 per year.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/documentation/coredocs/hri-core-1-add95.htm   (3767 words)

  
 Ebeye -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Some of the residents of Ebeye are refugees or descendants of refugees from the effects of the cataclysmic 15 megaton "Bravo" (Click link for more info and facts about nuclear test) nuclear test at (Click link for more info and facts about Bikini Atoll) Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
The (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American authorities promptly evacuated Rongelap, and Ebeye was the final destination for many of them.
Originally, Ebeye was called and written Ebeje, but the (A resident of a colony) colonial (A person of German nationality) German administration mispronounced the J a if it were (The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic) German language pronunciation, and foreign observers phonetically recorded the name as Ebeye.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eb/ebeye.htm   (195 words)

  
 Arkansas Online: Leaving the Marshall Islands
On the urban islands of Ebeye and Majuro, the churches are full on Sundays, and singing reverberates in the streets.
Ebeye and Majuro are still divided into wetos, which are still run by alaps and iroij.
On Ebeye, the iroij still have the power to evict residents from the land, making the kings more powerful in many ways than the municipal government.
www.ardemgaz.com /ads/mi/articles/trad.html   (2543 words)

  
 East Asia and the Pacific: Micronesia Immersion PAAM/NAPAD by Michael Simon
On Ebeye, one of the members of our group received an infectious insect bite to his leg and popped the wound to release the poison.
Life on Ebeye is pretty hard, but you would never be able to tell by the way people smile and how happy the kids are playing basketball, or with playing a bicycle tire rolling it up and down the street.
I was also informed Ebeye is not as nice as the other Islands of the Marshall Islands and it is not all that big either.
www.globalministries.org /eap/ea121503.htm   (7229 words)

  
 Building the Navy's Bases Online: Kwajalein Atoll, in the Marshall Islands
Ebeye Island lies 2½ miles north of Kwajalein, and is separated from the latter by an unbroken reef.
On January 30 and 31, Kwajalein Atoll was subjected to heavy surface bombardment and air attack prior to landings by the Fourth Marine Division on Roi and Namur Islands and by the Seventh Army Division on Kwajalein, on February 1.
Further installations on Ebeye consisted of Housing in floored tents and Quonset hut, a 150-bed dispensary, four magazines, 24,000 square feet of covered storage, and a 4,000-barrel aviation-gasoline tank farm.
microworks.net /pacific/bases/btnb_online/kwajalein.htm   (1641 words)

  
 Ebeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ebeye is another one of the many islands of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Whole islands of people were displaced from their land due to nuclear fall out.
Many of these people ended up on Ebeye which is one reason it is so densly populated.
www2.hawaii.edu /~antalis/ebeye.htm   (188 words)

  
 Safe water handling key in controlling cholera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In December 2000, the first known outbreak of cholera in the Republic of the Marshall Islands was reported on Ebeye Island.
Interestingly, the military water came from a chlorinated source that was considered to be safe from cholera contamination.
In support of this hypothesis, the authors found that drinking water transported in a cooler with a tight-fitting lid reduced the risk of cholera infection, presumably because the secure seal slowed the loss of chlorine that occurs with evaporation.
healthinfo.carolinas.org /healthnews/reuters/20040107elin016.htm   (395 words)

  
 Anrohasa Hotel
Situated on the edge of the largest coral atoll in the world, the Anrohasa Hotel on the island of Ebeye is one of the newest hotels in Micronesia.
Ebeye is a paradise for scuba divers and sports fishermen.
And don't leave Ebeye without a boating adventure to one of the remote outer islands where you can snorkel in the clear shallows and enjoy a picnic lunch or evening barbeque on white sandy beaches.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /micronesia/hotels/anrohsa_hotel.html   (271 words)

  
 Reunion Hall - LORSTA Kwajalein
I was stationed on Ebeye 66 thru 67 as a fireman.
Hello i was stationed on ebeye in 1960 as a seaman.good duty.
CGLTS Ebeye Island was the name for Kwajalein Lorsta in 1951, when it went on the air.
www.fredsplace.org /reunion/d14/0260.shtml   (751 words)

  
 Health Stream Web Bonus Summary - Issue 33 March 2004
On the Island of Ebeye in the Republic of the Marshall Islands a sudden increase in the number of acute, severely dehydrating cases of diarrhoeal illness occurred among adults during early December 2000.
Controls were excluded if they had not resided on Ebeye during all 5 days before the onset of diarrhoea in their matched case or if anyone in their household reported diarrhoea in the month before the case's diarrhoea onset, or if they had received a cholera vaccination, or had declined to provide a blood sample.
As there are no fresh water springs in Ebeye, chlorinated water from the US military facility on the neighbouring island of Kwajalein is transported by individuals, often children, in containers via a ferry to Ebeye.
www.waterquality.crc.org.au /HSarch/HS33_b4.htm   (680 words)

  
 Ebeye Island
The first is upside down in 80 feet of water, it shows considerable strafing damage but the body is relatively intact.
Located in 1965, it is just off the southern end of Ebeye, and is almost completely destroyed, and broken into several pieces.
Lies in shallow water near shore 50 yards south of the pier of Ebeye.
www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/marshall_ebeye.html   (132 words)

  
 KPUA.net - KPUA Hawaii News - Probe launched to find cocaine that disappeared from police station
Police Commissioner George Lanwi says investigators from the capital of Majuro were to fly to Ebeye to investigate the disappearance.
Police officials on Ebeye claim their station, which is staffed on a 24-hour basis, was robbed.
Officials at the U-S Army's missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll, where Ebeye is located, said they believed virtually all of the drugs involved in the arrests came from cocaine that washed ashore in March.
www.kpua.net /news.php?id=2777   (173 words)

  
 Kokan: Youthful Female Runaways in the Marshalls
Americans familiar with Ebeye asserted that that prostitution begins at an earlier age there and confirmed Alexander's observation that it is part of a pattern of deviant behaviors including alcohol abuse, theft, fighting, and suicide.
It would be unreasonable to expect natural social evolution to generate institutions to cope with the new stresses of overpopulation in the few decades in which the population growth has occurred.
Outer islander may mean one born away from urban Majuro or Ebeye and raised in an urban area or it may mean one who arrives in an urban area in adolescence.
www.micsem.org /pubs/counselor/kokan.htm   (4183 words)

  
 Tropical Islanders Getting Hooked On Washed-Up Cocaine
But the residents of the tiny tropical nation are now struggling to deal with an entirely unexpected ocean bounty: a huge consignment of cocaine.
The neatly-wrapped bricks, which police believe were dumped overboard by drug runners fleeing the US Coast Guard, weighed 60lb and were seized by the authorities.
Although the Marshall Islands were described by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1889 as "the pearl of the Pacific", Ebeye is now little more than a slum.
www.rense.com /general65/wash.htm   (304 words)

  
 WISE NC: MARSHALL ISLANDS 1946-1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The population on the island of Ebeye, a 66 acre island less than a mile long and 650 feet wide, grows to 1000 people as the Kwajalein base offers employment for 220 Marshallese.
Being the chief executive of Kwajalein Atoll Development Cooperation and the mayor of Ebeye and the one responsible for the wellbeing of these people, I'd rather they went to the US and learned some new things, learned how to be themselves, rather than stay here and commit suicide in my face.
Ebeye population estimated at 7,049 living in "deteriorating and substandard" housing units according to a Trust Territory study.
www.antenna.nl /wise/454/4498.html   (7694 words)

  
 Marshall Islands - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most important atolls and islands form two groups: the Ratak Chain and the Ralik Chain (meaning "sunrise" and "sunset" chains).
Two-thirds of the nation's population lives on Majuro (which is also the capital) and Ebeye.
The outer islands are sparsely populated due to lack of employment opportunities and economic development.
open-encyclopedia.com /Marshall_Islands   (594 words)

  
 1997 Annual Report: Ebeye School's Transformation: REL Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The problems at Ebeye Public School in the Republic of the Marshall Islands were legion: leaky roofs, broken windows, exposed electrical wiring, damaged classroom flooring, no running water, nonworking bathrooms, and missing steps in the stairwell.
The bottom line: fifth-graders were barely able to write complete sentences in English, with fewer than half of them graduating; eighth-grade students were unable to pass the national high school entrance test; and overall student achievement was low.
Based on the principles of strategic alliance and partnership, Project Al Maron is a first-of-its-kind effort toward improving education in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific and returning the community to its traditional cultural approach to education, where everyone has a critical role to play.
www.relnetwork.org /1997ar/12.html   (636 words)

  
 www.aspower.com/Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
All of the atoll's pwer lines are now placed under-ground-"to protect them from corrosion" and the back-up generators at the Ebeye hospital have been upgraded.
The loaders, compactors and excavator equipment was due to arrive in Ebeye last October.
The good news at ASPA is that the new Deutz generator finally arrived on island in December and is at the Tafuna power plant.
www.aspower.com /issue9pg3.htm   (921 words)

  
 seahunt
Due to the storm, the waves were running about six feet, which did not make for an auspicious beginning for this leg of the trip.
Ebeye Island is a fairly small island (about one square mile or less) where the natives who work on Kwajalein Island live.
This was appreciated as the generator on Ebeye was running at half capacity.
www.diver.net /seahunt/f_bik2.htm   (1830 words)

  
 US Department Of State Post Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With just 0.14 square miles, Ebeye Island is the most densely populated area in the Marshall Islands, with an equivalent population density of 66,750 persons per square mile.
This social network allows relatives from the outer islands, whether invited or not, to join family members in Ebeye or Majuro, and be assured of a home and food, even if the newcomer does not plan to work or make a contribution to the host family.
The modern sector is largely a service‑oriented economy located in Majuro and Ebeye, sustained by expenditure of the Marshall Islands Government and the U.S. Army installation at Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA).
foia.state.gov /MMS/postrpt/pr_view_all.asp?CntryID=95   (11048 words)

  
 Actualites sur la Jeunesse Oceanienne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
More than 12,000 people live on Ebeye’s 80 acres, making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
Because of the approximately 1,400 jobs for Marshall Islanders at the missile testing facility three miles from Ebeye, the island has been a magnet for islanders from many distant, rural islands who see the prospect of possible employment, and better medical and educational opportunities.
The new police project is involving a group of about 30 "at-risk" youth in the 18-21 age group in a pilot four-month program that includes four hours a day of math and English studies, and four hours on-the-job experience with local businesses and government agencies.
www.spc.org.nc /youth/Youth_in_the_News/ebeye.htm   (386 words)

  
 Weapons in space: impact on the Pacific
Ebeye has an area of approximately 66 acres - it is a very small island and currently more than 14,000 people are crammed onto it.
Ebeye has been described as “the slum of slums” and a “biological time- bomb ready to go off”.
When missile testing is going on the people on Ebeye and Enniburr are not permitted to use the lagoon nor the islands in it to gather food.
www.converge.org.nz /pma/rob00118.htm   (1828 words)

  
 Utwe Christmas Marching and the size of the overseas Kosraen community
There are an estimated 60 to 70 Kosraens, primarily from Lelu, married into the Ebeye population.
The children born to Kosraens living and working on Guam are considered American citizens and were also not counted.
Like Ebeye, the connections between Kosrae and Nauru are by marriage and blood.
www.comfsm.fm /~dleeling/kosrae/utwe_christmas.html   (1340 words)

  
 » Blog Archive » It’s All in the Spam!
In those days, Ebeye Marshallese crossed the three miles of water to attend the celebration at the Kwajalein base with the Americans.
Hundreds of people were displaced and sent to strange islands, and thousands of their descendents still have not returned to their homelands.
Ebeye is a very good example of our culture and way of life gone wrong.
yokweblog.net /?p=10   (1403 words)

  
 ADB Loan to Marshall Islands for Health and Infrastructure Project - ADB.org
Ebeye is a small islet in the Kwajalein Atoll which is densely populated with 13,500 people, or 25 percent of the national population.
The Ebeye Health and Infrastructure Project will finish the new Ebeye Hospital on which construction started in 1994 but ceased in early 1997 because of insufficient funds and implementation problems.
As well as improving health care services, the project will provide a more reliable water supply and power generation to help ensure proper operation of the hospital.
www.adb.org /Documents/News/1999/nr1999071.asp   (316 words)

  
 Lost At Sea | Outside Online
The streets on Ebeye were narrow and packed with children, many of them wheeling on a single roller skate while a friend used the other.
The tropical heat was merciless, and there was nowhere to hide from the sun, since virtually all of the island's palm trees were chopped down long ago to make room for shanties.
In the sprawling residential warrens of Ebeye, the shanties are tagged with sun-faded graffiti: "Fuck your mama, yes, yes," "Homeboyz," and "Crips," the language of Watts and Compton filtered through Hollywood and rendered, here, merely sad.
outside.away.com /magazine/0397/9703fesea.html   (6298 words)

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