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	Marshall Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar was the first European to sight the Marshalls in 1526, but the islands remained virtually unvisited by Europeans for several more centuries, before being visited by English captain John Marshall in 1788; the islands owe their name to him.
		In 1979 the Republic of the Marshall Islands was established and a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. government was signed, becoming effective in 1986.
		The Marshall Islands are divided into 24 legislative districts, which correspond to the inhabited islands and atolls of the country.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Marshall_Islands (1105 words)

	Wikinfo \| Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands are an island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
		Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar was the first European to sight the Marshalls, but the islands remained virtually unvisited for several more centuries, before being visited by English captain John Marshall in 1788; the islands owe their name to him.
		In 1979, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and signed a Compact of Free Association with the American government, which became effective in 1986.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Marshall_Islands (624 words)

	Marshall Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island.
		The Marshall Islands have no formal administrative division, but are divided into 25 legislative districts, which correspond to the inhabited islands and atolls of the country.
		Marshall Islands · Micronesia · Nauru · New Zealand · Niue · Palau · Papua New Guinea · Samoa · Solomon Islands · Tonga · Tuvalu · Vanuatu
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Islands (1151 words)

	Resources on the Marshall Islands
		Chuuk (formerly Truk), Yap, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the...
		...the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI); the Marshall Islands (Republic of...
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is an Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/pacific/Marshall_Islands.html (1600 words)

	Forever Marshall Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Forever Marshall Islands is the national anthem of the Marshall Islands.
		National anthems of Oceania and the Pacific Islands
		Marshall Islands • Nauru • New Zealand (Also God Save the Queen) • Niue • Palau • Papua New Guinea • Samoa • Solomon Islands • Tonga • Tuvalu • Vanuatu
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forever_Marshall_Islands (184 words)

	The Marshall Islands Campaign
		Altogether, the Atoll consisted of 85 islands, extended 65 miles in length, and was 18 miles across at its widest point.
		The island of Roi measured 1200 by 1250 yards; Namur was 800 by 910 yards -- neither of them a square mile in size.
		The task force which accompanied the the Marine and Army Divisions to the islands was the largest assembled in the Pacific to date.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/5850/marshalls.html (1334 words)

	Marshall Islands - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands are an island nation in the
		United States invaded the islands (1944), and they were added to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
		In 1979 the Republic of the Marshall Islands was established and a Compact of Free Association with the American government was signed, becoming effective in 1986.
	www.gurupedia.com /m/ma/marshall_islands.htm (550 words)

	Travel to Virgin Islands
		Located on the west end of the island, Estate Whim Plantation is just one example of these "greathouses." With acres of rolling green hills, St.Croix's plantation estates also bore crops of okra, cabbage, corn, and other vegetables still prominent in Caribbean cuisine.
		In 1956, Laurance Rockefeller was so moved by the island that he bought and donated broad expanses of land to the National Park Service to keep St. John "a thing of joy forever." Today, two-thirds of St. John is part of the Virgin Islands National Park, featuring fascinating trails, secluded coves, and dazzling white beaches.
		Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is one of the most beautiful harbors in the world and the most visited port in the Caribbean.
	www.traveltowhere.com /carribean/VIRGIN_ISLANDS.html (628 words)

	National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But the island seems about to join others that already have sunk beneath the waves—a microcosm, say scientists, of the effects of rising sea levels around the world.
		Kearney's studies of historical records, along with such indicators as pollens found in sediment samples, show that islands in the bay were slowly eroding from the colonial period until around 1850, when the rate of land loss took a sudden and dramatic upturn.
		Around the beginning of the 19th century, Sharps Island was a roughly 600-acre (240-hectare) farming and fishing community at the mouth of Maryland's Choptank River.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2000/04/0428_islands.html (1414 words)

	Government
		The Council of Iroij is the upper house of the Marshall Islands bicameral parliament, while the Nitijela is the elected lower house.
		The Constitution of the Marshall Islands entered into force on May 1, 1979, at which time the parliament chose Amata Kabua to be the country’s first president.
		The government of the Marshall Islands operates under a mixed parliamentary- presidential system, which includes a head of state—the President, who is also the head of government—and a bicameral parliament—the Council of Iroij (the upper house) and Nitijela (the elected lower house).
	www.rmiembassyus.org /Government.htm (1741 words)

	The Republic of the Marshall Islands Climate Change Website: Statements
		AOSIS is the group with which the Republic of the Marshall Islands and all the other Small Island Developing States have the foremost cooperation at the international level, given the common interests and concerns of our countries.
		The Marshall Islands is in danger losing 80% of the Capital under this scenario.
		The larger islands as well as low-lying coastal areas would also be greatly impacted due to the concentration of their communities along the coast lines, including most economic activities.
	unfccc.int /resource/ccsites/marshall/resource/statements.htm (2267 words)

	Rongelap Atoll Marshall Islands Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The testing program in the Marshall Islands was equivalent to several Hiroshima bombs every week for 12 years.
		Our islands were ground zero in the Cold War, and we were on the front line in the fight to win the Cold War.
		The Marshall Islands is a democratic ally on all fronts in the current war that asks for nothing except just compensation for judicially determined claims.
	www.visitrongelap.com /MediaCenter/Press_Releases/2004_0312_matayoshi.htm (1579 words)

	Marshall Islands, The
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. island of Wake.
		Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar was the first European to sight the Marshalls, but the islands remained virtually unvisited by Europeans for several more centuries, before being visited by English captain John Marshall in 1788; the islands owe their name to him.
		Japanese is also widely spoken in many areas of Marshall Islands.
	creekin.net /n118-marshall-islands-the.html (623 words)

	Plants & Environments of the Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This very important wild growing and cultivated tree is sometimes referred to as the "screwpine," because of the twisted form in which the leaves are produced at the end of the branches and the general resemblance of the many-sectioned fruit to a large pine cone.
		Distribution: Although this species may be indigenous to the Marshall Islands, early Marshallese probably brought some important cultivated varieties of this very useful plant with them.
		Chamisso, a French artist and botanist, was among the first European visitors to come to the Marshall Islands in the early 19th century.
	www.hawaii.edu /cpis/MI/plants/bob.html (512 words)

	When I First Discovered Escape Artist Magazine I Was Looking To Do Just That, Escape!: Escape To The Marshall Islands ~ ...
		In 1944 Kwajalein Island was occupied by the Japanese.
		Roi-Namur Island is a “sub-detachment” of the main army installation on Kwajalein.
		Majuro is the capital of the Marshall Islands.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/77/Living_In_The_Marshall_Islands.html (1829 words)

	Jock Marshall: One Armed Warrior - CHAPTER THREE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dr Baker had visited the islands before; he was intrigued by the mystery and hoped to find clues to it with this scientific study.
		The other two aims of the expedition were to study the anthropology of the Sakau tribe, especially depopulation, and to climb and map the mostly unexplored mountain regions of the island wherever possible.
		Marshall for the age in which he lives because his answer is sure to be ready and sharp, though one does feel it hard that the generous impulses of a writer moved by beauty, and inclined to poetic diction should be so easily chilled by knowledge of facts that never respond to wine and song.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/exhib/marshall/m_ch3.htm (7913 words)

	The Islands of Summer \| Outside Online
		Kids will also get a charge out of the boat trip to view the island's unusually large flying fish, which are capable of reaching speeds of up to 40 miles per hour and of doing belly flops onto the deck of the boat.
		Because the island's entire ocean side is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, there are no houses directly on the Atlantic, but rental properties do exist on Pamlico Sound, the body of water that separates Ocracoke from mainland North Carolina.
		The island supports a wealth of wildlife: Bluefish and striped bass work the rips off the island's shoals; horseshoe crabs and Nantucket Bay scallops move through the warm shallows; wild turkeys and white-tailed deer roam the moors.
	outside.away.com /magazine/fvg99/99fvgislands.html (3009 words)

	Top20MarshallIslands.com - Your Top20 Guide to Marshall Islands!
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island.
		The U.S. started conducting nuclear tests on the islands immediately after the war, continuing until the 1960s as the Pacific Proving Grounds.
		Melanesia : Fiji Â· New Caledonia Â· Papua New Guinea Â· Solomon Islands Â· Vanuatu
	top20marshallislands.com (909 words)

	Rongelap Marshall Islands Ecotourism Diving Fishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		All of the islands in the lagoon are connected by shallow reefs.
		The waters around Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls is pristine territory for diving and fishing the Marshall Islands.
		Walk off the beach on the main island of Rongelap to a wealth of shallow reefs teeming with sea life.
	www.rongelapexpeditions.com /Scuba/diving.htm (479 words)

	Pacific Magazine: MARSHALL ISLANDS: Ebon Senator On Nuclear Legacy
		Speaker, my granddaughter represents a new generation of Bikinians who are forever cursed by the events of March 7, 1946.
		For them and their parents’ generation, their right to swim and sail the lagoon, and to walk the beaches, and the privilege to eat the fruits of the land, and to wash it down with the sweet juices of a coconut may never come to pass.
		And should her turn come to depart the land of the living, I pray that she will have passed to the land of her ancestors in peace, knowing that all is well.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=20862 (907 words)

	Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This tiny island in the middle of the pacific ocean is teaming with unique life (some found no place else on earth).
		Scott Faraday is shipwrecked in the Fiji Islands on an active volcano.
		A Magical Island of Rainbows in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
	www.lulu.com /browse/search.php?fKeywords=islands&fSort=vote (567 words)

	Wen plies Pacific islands with gifts - World - smh.com.au
		Mr Wen, who is the first Chinese premier to visit the Pacific islands, said fostering relations with the region was not a matter of "political expediency".
		China has proved and will continue to prove itself a sincere, trustworthy and reliable friend and partner of the Pacific island countries forever," he told the forum, which was attended by seven prime ministers from the region and about 600 officials and delegates.
		China would also cancel the debts of the least developed countries that matured at the end of 2005, and extend by 10 years the payment of debts of other countries in the region that matured at the end of 2005.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/wen-plies-pacific-islands-with-gifts/2006/04/05/1143916594748.html (557 words)

	NUCLEAR FALLOUT: House Recognizes Tremendous Sacrifice of Marshallese People :: Everything Marshall Islands :: ...
		Yesterday afternoon, a delegation from Bikini Atoll, sitting in the US House of Representatives Gallery, was recognized from the floor by Chairman of the House Resources Committee, Richard Pombo, during discussion of House Concurrent Resolution 364.
		The openness and kindness with which we were received will not be forgotten, as we were able to talk to some of the survivors of these nuclear tests and comprehend better the level of understanding that remains between the Marshallese and our government to this day.
		Representative Pombo was the sponsor of the Resolution along with 14 co-sponsors, many of whom entered their concerns for the islands for the record during House sessions of March 17 and 18.
	www.yokwe.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=739 (962 words)

	Rongelap Atoll Marshall Islands Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The marine science team from the College of the Marshall Islands recently returned from doing the second part of a series of surveys of the coral reefs of the atolls of RMI.
		I hope the pristine nature of these islands with their colors, pinnacles, lagoons, corals, sand, fishes, invertebrates, sound and power of the ocean, will remain for a long long time as they will be in my soul forever.
		The establishment of marine protected areas in the Marshall Islands is a positive step towards sustainable fishing and I have only praise for all involved.
	www.visitrongelap.com /MediaCenter/Press_Releases/2003_0822.htm (1227 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Regional Information - Australasia and Oceania - Oceania
		Palau, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
		The landmass is comprised of mostly small islands, often amounting to low-lying coral atolls, fringed by coral reefs and pristine white sand beaches with clear waters ideal for snorkeling and diving.
		Isolation means that many of the islands are uninhabited and many have no fresh water and very little arable land or natural resources, often resulting in the dependence of foreign aid.
	www.worldworx.tv /regional-information/australasia-oceania/oceania (207 words)

	Liveaboard Expedition Rongelap Atoll - Marshall Islands
		Our newly refurbished 40 meter (132 ft.) cruise ship the Oleanda, is ready to travel to the distant islands and waters of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.
		The Oleanda is the first dedicated vessel to operate diving expeditions exclusively in Marshall Island waters.
		The idyllic lagoon drops to 200 feet and is abound with awesome pinnacles and shallow coral playgrounds tucked in amongst wonderful islands.
	www.rongelapexpeditions.com /Liveaboard/liveaboard_package.htm (363 words)

	Boxer Departs Marshall Islands Following COMREL Projects
		While in the Marshall Islands, another team of Sailors went to local schools to read to the students and brighten their day with treats, coloring books and games.
		Marshall Islands firefighters spent two days working with Boxer’s damage control team on board the ship and at Majuro’s airport.
		Boxer’s stop in Majuro reinforced the can-do attitude of the ship’s crew and demonstrated the U.S. commitment to the longtime friendship with the Marshall Islands.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/09/mil-050902-nns02.htm (639 words)

	Marshalls Canoe Building Takes Off Resurgence of Interest in Outriggers Fueled by Youth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Such agencies as UNESCO, the Australian and New Zealand governments, College of the Marshall Islands Land Grant and other U.S. federally-funded job training programs have injected funding for the initial phases of WAM’s canoe house and training programs, while local businesses and residents donate breadfruit logs for the canoes and help with other program needs.
		As funds become available, the plan is to expand the canoe building area and to construct a facility that will serve as a center for women handicraft makers to both make and sell their wares, Kelen says.
		It’s now a vibrant part of everyday life for many Marshall Islanders whose stepped up building and racing activities are insuring that canoes will not go the way of the dinosaur.
	www.spc.org.nc /youth/Best_Practice/marshalls_canoe_building_takes_o.htm (640 words)

	Welcome to the Fall 2005 edition of NewsNotes
		She found many poor fl orphans and attempted to establish an asylum, which, however, miserably failed for lack of finances.
		Forever in search of “fields of usefulness,” she sailed to Jamaica in 1840.
		There she wanted to support emancipation and to teach children to read, write, work, and believe in God.
	www.marshall.edu /melus/NewsNotes/Fall_2005/fall-MESEA.htm (2221 words)

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