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	Kwajalein Control Facility - Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands
		Kwajalein Atoll is located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 2,100 miles southwest of Hawai'i and 1,400 miles east of Guam.
		The island is home to USAKA(United States Army Kwajalein Atoll), the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, and about 2,000 support personnel and family members on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur islands.
		Kwajalein Range Services (KRS) is the primary contractor.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/kwa (250 words)

	Kwajalein Island
		The intercept took place approximately six minutes after the interceptor was launched, at an altitude in excess of 140 miles above the earth, and during the midcourse phase of the target warhead's flight.
		Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 4,800 miles away.
		Kwajalein, Island 1961, part of the Marshal Islands, located at the southern end of the Kwajalein, Atoll.
	www.williamson-labs.com /kwaja.htm (2293 words)

	Marshall Islands Scuba Diving Trips Kwajalein Liveaboards Information
		Kwajalein is not easily accessible to most divers but we have received permission for the Oleanda to travel the waters of Kwajalein Atoll from January through April 2006.
		Kwajalein Atoll is the largest atoll in the world circling a lagoon of nearly 850 square miles.
		Kwajalein Island is leased to the U.S. Army and is closed to the general public.
	www.rongelapexpeditions.com /destinations/kwajalein.htm (281 words)

	Building the Navy's Bases Online: Kwajalein Atoll, in the Marshall Islands
		The Kwajalein area includes Kwajalein Island and the islands on the reef for 12 miles to the north and 10 miles to the northwest.
		Kwajalein Island, crescent-shaped and open to the lagoon on the northwest, is about 3 miles long and varies in width from 1,000 to 2,500 feet.
		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.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/bases/btnb_online/kwajalein.htm (1641 words)

	Exotic Islands in the South Pacific
		The experiments included a series of rocket launches at Kwajalein Atoll to generate and to measure the irregularities of ionized gas in the upper atmosphere, the ionosphere, a region spanning from approximately 100 to 1000 kilometers above the surface of the Earth.
		The connection between the suit and the atoll was made in 1946 when the suit was first shown by a French couturier at a pool in Paris, and had the similarly explosive impact as a nuclear test did at the atoll.
		It is said that the first successful ABM test was conducted at Kwajalein Atoll on June 10, 1984, when a missile launched from California was destroyed 160 km out in space by another missile fired from the atoll.
	sunsite.nus.sg /mw/iss03/pacific.html (1847 words)

	Kwajalein Atoll - Marshall Islands January 29, 1944
		The Atoll of Kwajalein is one of the largest Atolls in the Pacific with a large lagoon in its center.
		Kwajalein Atoll is one of several islands that make up the Marshall Islands group.
		The Atoll is made up of several islands which had been occupied and fortified by Japanese forces.
	www.vf31.com /sorties/kwajalein_atoll.html (893 words)

	GLobal Network - Traditional Leaders Request Support for Environmental Assessment on Kwajalein - 23/8/05
		This is the first time that the four paramount chiefs of Kwajalein Atoll and the Ralik Chain have made a public statement and took a stand on the Kwajalein Land Use Agreement (LUA) issue.
		Kwajalein Atoll is presently under a Land Use Agreement (LUA) between (landowners) and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMIG).
		The Kwajalein traditional leaders and landowners proposed that a third independent scientific party, "that is unbiased, and familiar with issues similar to our case, undertake assessment and evaluation of the impact of past and present US military activities in Kwajalein Atoll."
	www.space4peace.org /articles/kwajalein_request.htm (494 words)

	Battle for Kwajalein in Pictures-1944
		From Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, 1944, the atoll was a battlefield where U.S. troops stormed beaches and fought their way through bomb- and shell-ravaged jungle and bunkers.
		Meanwhile, near Kwajalein, Navy ships fired 7,000 shells into the island's defenses on the morning of Feb. 1, alone, not counting the heavy bombardment days before the attack.
		Furthermore, many Japanese positions were bypassed as a result of the success at Kwajalein Atoll, allowing U.S. forces to concentrate on other targets, including successful assaults on the Philippines and Marianas.
	www.coretek.org /gsmith/kwajaleinbattle.html (762 words)

	Bechtel Briefs—August 2003—Kwajalein Atoll
		But Kwajalein’s role in the military activity of the United States is not limited to the past.
		The vast coral ring of Kwajalein is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, which lies just west of the International Date Line between the Philippines and Hawaii.
		The community at Kwajalein comprises a mixture of U.S. civilians, Department of Defense and Army personnel, and Marshallese citizens.
	www.bechtel.com /Briefs/0803/Data_Base.htm (998 words)

	USAcv2
		Kwajalein Atoll is one of the 34 West Central Pacific Ocean atolls that make up the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		Kwajalein Atoll is a coral reef formation in the shape of a crescent loop, enclosing the world's largest lagoon with a surface area of 1,100 square miles.
		Kwajalein Island, one of the three largest islands in the atoll, is 1/2 mile wide and 3 miles long (approximately 1.5 square miles in area.) Kwajalein Atoll lies 2100 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.
	oc-kahuna.com /Kwajalein.html (1157 words)

	Bikini History
		Bikini Atoll is one of the 29 atolls and five islands that compose the Marshall Islands.
		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.
		Atoll to Kili Island, would have to be made against the Bikinian leaders and not against the U.S government.
	www.bikiniatoll.com /history.html (5180 words)

	Kwajalein atoll travel guide
		Kwajalein Atoll consists of 97 islands with a total land mass of just 6.5 sq miles (17 sq km) that surround an immense 1100 sq mile (2850 sq km) lagoon.
		The atoll is used by the US Army for testing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) fired from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California, 4200 miles (6700km) away.
		Bikini Atoll natives now reside on the NE end of Kwajalein Atoll where the EPA gives them annual physicals.
	www.world66.com /australiaandpacific/marshallislands/kwajaleinatoll (249 words)

	Kwajalein Atoll and the new arms race
		Kwajalein Atoll is made up of nearly 100 coral islands surrounding a 2,300-square-kilometre lagoon (the largest lagoon in the world).
		Costello sees Kwajalein as becoming more important in the future because of TMD and NMD: "Kwajalein is the singular place where all the capabilities exist to gauge the success or failure of missile defence systems.
		Kwajalein lagoon's shallow waters make for easy retrieval of test objects, and the very deep surrounding ocean provides secure disposal of missiles and warheads not to be recovered.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/stkwaj.htm (6007 words)

	Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Land of Tomorrow
		Kwajalein Atoll became the eyes and ears of the military in the Australian hemisphere, currently the most highly developed installation of it's kind in the world.
		Kwajalein currently houses about 1,500 civilian employees, under USAKA domain, working in two separate entities, KLS and IRE, KLS being the logistic support group, and IRE being the missile group.
		Kwajalein is located in the Central Pacific Ocean, about 2,500 miles west of Hawaii and 1,500 miles east of Guam - See Map - The island is home to USAKA (United States Army Kwajalein Atoll), Kwajale in Missile Range, and over 2,500 military and civilian support personnel.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam4/Kwajalein.html (622 words)

	About The Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		X=Kwajalein Island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
		Kwajalein Atoll is a coral reef formation in the shape of crescent
		from Kwajalein Island to Ebadon Island and it's average width is 15 nmi.
	member.newsguy.com /~kwajpipe/kwaj.htm (268 words)

	McGrath Images - Locations - Kwajalein Atoll
		Kwajalein Atoll is located in the west central Pacific Ocean, about 2,100 miles southwest of Hawaii and 1,400 miles east of Guam (view map).
		The island is home to USAKA (United States Army Kwajalein Atoll), the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, and about 1,400 support personnel and family members on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur islands.
		Kwajalein Serenity: A cornucopia of scenes, both from land and air, of the Kwajalein Atoll.
	www.mcgrathimages.com /Gallery/Locations/Kwajalein (712 words)

	RTS Weather Station
		As Kwajalein residents probably recall, the month of October was very soggy.
		Last month, residents of Kwajalein pulled out their sweatshirts and raingear as the sky opened up and attempted to set a new weather record for the rainiest and coolest day in November.
		Kwajalein just experienced about 4 ½ months worth of thunderstorms this past October when the seventh thunderstorm for the month occurred during the early morning hours of the 31st.
	www.rts-wx.com (398 words)

	Reagan Test Site
		With nearly 40 years of successful support, RTS provides a vital role in the research, development, test and evaluation effort of America's missile defense and space programs.
		RTS hosts a suite of unique instrumentation, located on eight islands throughout the Kwajalein atoll.
		This instrumentation includes a comprehensive suite of precision metric and signature radars, optical sensors, telemetry receiving stations, and impact scoring assets.
	www.smdc.army.mil /RTS.html (208 words)

	marshall Islands map and information page
		The United States used some of these isolated atolls for nuclear testing between 1947 and 1962.
		The Kwajalein Atoll, with a huge central lagoon, is the largest coral atoll on the planet.
		Rain falls throughout the year and is heaviest in the southern atolls where totals do approach 160 inches per year.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/mh.htm (521 words)

	Kwajalein Atoll Information from QuiteWright.com
		Kwajalein is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, approximately half way between Hawaii and Australia.
		Kwajalein Island, pictured above, is the southern-most, and biggest, island of the 100+ islands that make up Kwajalein Atoll.
		The United States Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) and Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site (RTS) are located on Kwajalein and several other islands in the Atoll.
	www.quitewright.com /kwaj.shtml (213 words)

	America at War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Japanese submarine chasers No.s 18, 19, 21 and 28 are sunk by aircraft and surface vessels in the Marshalls.
		The Japanese submarine RO-108 is sunk by the destroyer escort USS England (DE-635) north of the Bismarck Archipelago.
		The Japanese frigate Kursagaki is sunk by the submarine USS Guitarro (SS-363) in the Philippines.
	www.america-at-war.net /wwii1944.html (14650 words)

	The Marshall Islands
		Preparatory to air strikes on the northern Marshalls, cruisers SANTA FE and MOBILE joined Task Group 50.3 on 26 November, left the Tarawa area on the 28th, and sped northeast to rendezvous with a similar carrier and fueling group.
		Approaching Kwajalein Atoll from the north, the carriers began launching their planes at 0630 on 4 December.
		Japanese installations on Roi one of the Kwajalein ring's low, sandy islands, were her objectives.
	santafe.paintrock.net /Docs/the_marshall_islands.htm (1371 words)

	Kwajalein Atoll
		An atoll is a ring shaped island surrounding a lagoon.
		Kwajalein’s lagoon is over 90 miles long and 30 miles wide, enclosing a kidney shaped area of 1,350 square miles.
		Kwajalein Atoll is central to the ‘Star Wars’ missile defense system.
	hotplantconsulting.com /articleseventeen.html (1207 words)

	U.S.M.C.- WWII Marine Amphibious Soldiers. First Armored Amphibian Battalion
		This was the first American attack on prewar held lands of the Japanese in World War II as the Marshall Islands were entrusted to Japan by the League of Nations after World War I. This was the first usage of the armored amphibian tanks in battle.
		The Marshall Islands is the largest group of atolls in the world, which made spontaneous attacks in the Kwajalein Atoll on several different islands necessary.
		This group of atolls and reefs in the North Pacific Ocean are about one-half the way from Hawaii to Australia.
	www.marineamphibians.com /marshalls.htm (512 words)

	SPACE.com -- SpaceX Private Rocket Shifts to Island Launch
		A projected Kwajalein liftoff date for the firm's two-stage Falcon 1 rocket on its maiden flight is late September.
		Now en route by barge to Kwajalein is the Falcon 1 first stage, with the second stage to arrive by air transportation.
		Also, any orbit is achievable from Kwajalein, with being close to the equator an advantage too, he said.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/050812_spacex_island.html (1511 words)

	Amazon.com: Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll (World War II): Books: S. L. A. Marshall,Joseph G. Dawson III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After the Seventh Infantry Division drove across Kwajalein Atoll in the first days of February 1944, successfully wresting control of the strategic southern tip from the Japanese, Marshall was charged with producing an accurate and comprehensive account of the fight.
		Island Victory: The Battle Of Kwajalein Atoll by Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall (1900-1977) is a rare primary historical source, written by at-the-time Lieutenant Colonel S. Marshall at the time of the deadly Pacific fight in World War II.
		When the Seventh Infantry Division battled the Japanese across Kwajalein Atoll in February 1944, Marshall was given the official task of creating a written record of the battle.
	www.amazon.com /Island-Victory-Battle-Kwajalein-Atoll/dp/0803282729 (1092 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - MARSHALL IS: Restrictions remain in Kwajalein missile range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The islands are leased by the US military, actually leased by the RMI government, the Marshall Islands government for the use of the US Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) in its ballistic missile testing operations.
		MACLELLAN: Some chiefs and landowners on Kwajalein have been seeking an increase in the amount of rental payments for land leased for the US military installations.
		As you know we have an agreement, the Military Use and Operating Rights Agreement with the Marshall Islands government on the use of Kwajalein Atoll for the US Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) and for the testing and space tracking facilities.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1410172.htm (545 words)

	WAPA - Kwajalein Atoll
		Amphibious landings on Roi- Namur and Kwajalein islets followed on 1 February 1944.
		Undefended Majuro- today the capital of the Republic of the MarshallIslands- was taken for use as an advanced base.
		Elements of the Seventh Infantry Division under Major General C.H. Corlett, USA, stormed Kwajalein islet at the southern extreme of the atoll as Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC, led the 4 th Marine Division against Roi-Namur islet in the north.
	www.nps.gov /archive/wapa/indepth/PacTheaterCAmp/Kwaj.htm (169 words)

	Robert Reimers Biography
		Soon after their marriage, the two went to Lupe's home atoll of Likiep, where Robert started his first business with $500 worth of goods brought from Jaluit.
		Navy officials on Kwajalein learned of Robert's boat building and carpentry prowess from another Likiep Islander who was working at Kwajalein, and brought Robert to the Navy base to work at the boat pool a couple of years after the war ended.
		In 1950, the Navy moved Robert and the boat pool operation to Majuro to the spot in Delap near the Assembly of God Church.
	www.rreinc.com /Robert.html (1059 words)

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