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 Marshall Islands - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Republic of the Marshall Islands 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.
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.
open-encyclopedia.com /Marshall_Islands   (594 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Kili Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kili Island (also known as Kili Atoll) is a 0.93 square kilometer island located in the Pacific Ocean at 5°37′ N 169°07′ E.
It is a member of the Marshall Islands and is located in the Ralik Chain.
The Ralik Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kili-Island   (367 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Marshall Islands are scattered over 375,000 square miles of ocean while the total dry land area of all the atolls and islands is slightly less than 70 square miles.
The typical land parcel of a lineage's estate was a strip of land known as a "wato" that traversed the width of an island from lagoon beach to ocean reef.
On June 1 1948, Kili Island was chosen by a vote of fifty- four to twenty-two by the Bikinians as the site of their relocation.
www.oomind.com /courselets/0000000100.html   (3162 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
The atoll of Bikini, a necklace of 23 islands with sandy beaches and swaying palms that surround a tranquil, blue-green lagoon, presents a startling paradox for the nuclear age.
The remarkable legacy of these islands and their people began just after the second world war, in December 1945, when US President Harry S Truman issued a directive to army and navy officials that joint testing of nuclear weapons would be necessary "to determine the effect of atomic bombs on American warships".
Kili is a single island with no lagoon and is surrounded by rough seas for most of the year.
www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4476121,00.html   (1710 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lagoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Though Long Island Sound is a true sound, Great South Bay, between Long Island and the barrier beaches of Fire Island, is actually a lagoon.
In geography a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait).
Long Island Sound near Guilford, Connecticut Long Island Sound is an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean and various rivers in the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lagoon   (840 words)

  
 Bikini Atoll - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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. It is a member of the Marshall Islands.
It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 594.2 square kilometer lagoon.
Bikini Atoll is also the source of the name of the Bikini swimsuit, but it should be noted that the name of the atoll is pronounced with stress on the first syllable.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Bikini_Atoll   (177 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.
It is a member of the Marshall Islands.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the original islanders returned from Kili Island but were removed because of the high radioactivity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bikini_atoll   (244 words)

  
 Hula Dance Videos and DVD & Tahitian
Kili combines these with her favorite hip hop moves for a challenging and enjoyable dance fitness experience designed to help you stay slim and toned.
Kili demonstrates this unique dance method she calls her “secret weapon” for keeping in shape and having a bathing suit-ready body all year long.
Kili teaches Hula, Tahitian Dance, Yoga, Acrobatics and Aerobics classes on the island of Maui and is a featured performer in the famous award winning show Ulalena.
www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/hula_dance_videos.htm   (1309 words)

  
 ZNet | Japan | Bikini and the Hydrogen Bomb:
Kili is a single island, while Bikini Atoll has 23 islands and a 243-square mile lagoon.
Kili has no sheltered fishing grounds, so our skills for lagoon life are useless on Kili.
Their chief, known by the single name Juda, said then they were agreeing to it because he'd been told that the bombs would produce "kindness and benefit to all mankind," and his people could return after the tests.
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 WISE NC: MARSHALL ISLANDS 1946-1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The disadvantages of the island include a lack of a lagoon and protected anchorage, and the heavy winter surf which isolates and halts offshore fishing from november to late spring.
The protest later spreads to other islands, including Kwajalein island itself, where the round of social events of the North American civilians are disrupted for the first time by the protesters.
They declare that a total of five islands of the Enewetak Atoll were partially or totally destroyed by nuclear bomb tests while Runit Island was made uninhabitable because tonnes of plutonium-saturated sand and debris were dumped into a crater on the island and covered with concrete.
www.antenna.nl /wise/454/4498.html   (7694 words)

  
 Hula Dance, Hula Dancing Lesson, Instruction on DVD & VHS. Hula for Everyone Your Complete Hula Lesson. Imagine ...
Kili has designed this program to allow you to learn a choreographed hula dance combined with an aerobic workout.
Kili has designed this program to allow the beginner to learn a choreographed hula dance while experiencing a fabulous aerobic workout at the same time.
Kili welcomes you to Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, to learn Cardio Hula.
www.hiphopmoves.net /page12.html   (381 words)

  
 Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 three fl stars in the upper right of the flag represent the three islands that were vaporized by the March 1, 1954, 15 megaton hydrogen bomb blast, code named Bravo.
These two stars are symbolically far away from Bikini's stars on the flag as the islands are in real life (both in distance and quality of life).
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/mh-bk.html   (342 words)

  
 Pacific Islands
By the end of 2002, residents of Kili — a one-third of a square mile island — will be dialing their relatives in the U.S. direct, and tapping out messages via Internet chat rooms.
The U.S. government gives the Marshall Islands $300,000 annually for telecommunications development, and this year the Marshall Islands is planning to spend $500,000 on improving outer island communications systems, according to Transportation and Communications Minister Brenson Wase.
Kili was selected as the initial outer island for satellite communications because its population of about 1,000 is wealthy by outer island standards — the Bikinians receive regular compensation payments from a US-funded nuclear test trust fund — and it has a power plant to supply electricity for the service.
www.pacificmagazine.net /pm12002/pmdefault.php?urlarticleid=0006   (510 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | October 1, 2003 - Contemporary Pacific: Marshall Islands RPCV Jack Niedenthal writes History of ...
After Ralph Waltz, Niedenthal was the second young American to arrive in the Marshall Islands as a Peace Corps volunteer, marry into the Bikini community, and come to devote his life to Bikinians.
After Namu, Niedenthal eagerly accepted an offer by Waltz to teach elementary school on Kili Island, where the people of Bikini Atoll were eventually resettled after their home atoll was selected as an American nuclear test site in 1946.
He recalls that during his teaching years on Kili, he became aware that his students' knowledge of their own people was sketchy at best, and it was then that he decided to record Bikinians' history as remembered by the community's elders.
www.peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2016664.html   (1450 words)

  
 Educational Priorities of the people of Bikini
In 1984, the local government began to hire professional, university trained teachers to go to Ejit and Kili Islands to teach in the elementary school and provide adult education in the evenings.
This is the island where the Bikinians live who were moved off of Bikini in the late 1970's by the United States.
Kili Island has two Japanese volunteers teaching in their school.
www.bikiniatoll.com /Education.html   (457 words)

  
 Eldon Note
Bikini atoll is one of the 29 atolls and five islands that composed the Marshall Islands.
The radiological illnesses in the Marshall Islands include thyroid cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, cancer of the brain, cancer of the liver, cancer of the ovary, and cancer of the bone.
The people of Bikini, Enewetak, and Rongelap atolls relocated to other islands and atolls that they are not really free to do whatever they want to do because they do not have land rights.
www.prop1.org /japan/speeches/e-eldn.htm   (816 words)

  
 Bikini atoll Article, Bikiniatoll Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 594.2 squarekilometer lagoon.
On May 21, 1956 Bikini Atoll was nearlyobliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.
Department of Energy Marshall Islands Program  : Chronology of nuclear testing,relocation of islanders and results of radiation tests.
www.anoca.org /tests/islands/bikini_atoll.html   (254 words)

  
 Legends
There once lived a great lizard on Kili Island (now home of the people from Bikini).
There are two places of land on Moneak Island on the northeastern part of the island on the ocean side.
The next night, the lizard came again, and so the people knew that it had been the lizard from Kili who had stolen their nuts.
members.tripod.com /alelemuseum/Legends.html   (378 words)

  
 Trivia Games - Trivia
The native Micronesians of Bikini Atolls were relocated to Kili Island, about 500 miles southeast of the test spot.
The radioactivity remaining in the island environment made the atolls uninhabitable until just recently when scientists declared it safe for people.
One of the biggest ironies of the Bikini Atolls situation is that the natives greeted Americans enthusiastically when the soldiers arrived on the Japanese occupied island at the end of World War II.
www.triviaspot.com /Editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Trivia&action=page&jump=next&obj_id=2971&cat_id=1951&sub_id=0   (341 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ralik Chain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The total population of the Ralik islands as of 1999 is 19,915.
List of atolls and isolated islands in the chain:
Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ralik-Chain   (100 words)

  
 MARSHALL ISLANDS' 177 HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND NEW FULL-TIME DOCTORS AT RISK - July 28, 2003
This new program of sending full time doctors to Enewetak, Uterik, Mejatto [where the Rongelap population lives], and Kili Island [where the Bikinian people live] is simply tremendous and we all really applaud her efforts to make this happen.
The doctor for Kili Island is already there and working as of this past Friday.
The scary thing is this program and others such as the USDA feeding program are threatened and might be terminated within 6 months if they are not renewed under the new Compact.
166.122.164.43 /archive/2003/july/08-28-13.htm   (580 words)

  
 Bikini Atoll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
For examination of the fallout, several rockets of the types Loki and Asp were launched at 11°35′ N 165°20′ E.
Includes a history of the islands and the nuclear tests as well as information on efforts to clean up radioactive contamination and US reparations.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Eschscholtz_Atoll   (774 words)

  
 Hula Abs & Buns by Kili at Collage Video
As Kili says, “hula is all in the hips,” so that’s the focus of nearly every movement.
Within the hula, Kili often integrates a squat, lunge or knee lift series to better target the muscles in your lower body.
Tamilee Webb started her exercise video career in the late 1980's as the "Buns of Steel" instructor.
www.collagevideo.com /in-stock-videos/7387.htm   (416 words)

  
 MARSHALL ISLAND - 404 Error - File Not Found   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In-depth and authoritative information about the people, culture, environment, arts, history, health, politics and the economy of the Marshall Islands in Micronesia...
Sorry the URL you tried could not be found.
If you like, you can email dspennemann@csu.edu.au to help solve the problem.
marshall.csu.edu.au /html/Bibliographies/Special/BiblioBikini.html   (104 words)

  
 Bikini Day
Each year Bikini Day is celebrated by the people of Bikini Atoll to commemorate their movement from their homeland in March of 1946, and also the detonation hydrogen bomb, Bravo, that irradiated their atoll in March of 1954.
What follows is a short report of the 2002 festivities that occurred on Kili Island on Monday, March 4, the opening for Bikini Day.
A large number of Marshall Islands Nitijela [the governing body of the Marshall Islands] members were also in attendance.
www.bikiniatoll.com /BikiniDay.html   (389 words)

  
 Legends
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And not very far away, on Ebon Atoll in Moneak Island, a high chief lived with his people.
They leaped out and caught him, struck him with stones, spears, and cut him up in many pieces.
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