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	ratak chain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Ratak Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands.
		The total population of the Ratak islands as of 1999 is 30,925.
		The atolls and isolated islands in the chain are:
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /ratak_chain.html (100 words)

	Ratak Chain: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Austral Islands are a chain of five islands in French Polynesia...Lucayans, thus depopulating the entire island chain by 1520.
		...the mid-1880s, the Marshalls, a double chain of atolls scattered at the eastern end...ashore on the atoll of Lae in the Ralik chain of the Marshalls, where they were set...hove in view of Ujae Atoll in the Ralik chain of the Marshalls.
		Next in the chain of command was Vice Adm. Raymond A. Spruance...operational phase, his position in the chain of command was ambiguous.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/ratak-chain.jsp?l=R&p=1 (524 words)

	Pacific Ocean : Marshall Islands
		The group consists of two loose chains of atolls: the Ratak Chain (in the east) and the Ralik Chain (in the west).
		The easterly Ralik Chain consists of the 15 atolls of Ailinginae, Ailinglapalap, Bikini, Ebon, Enewetak, Jaluit, Kwajalein, Lae, Namorik, Namu, Rongelap, Rongerik, Ujae, Ujelang, and Wotho; and the three small islands of Jabwot, Kili, and Lib.
		In the west, the Ratak chain consists of the 14 atolls of Ailuk, Arno, Aur, Bikar, Bokak, Erikub, Knox (Nadikdik), Likiep, Majuro, Maloelap, Mili, Taka, Utrik and Wotje; and the two islands of Jemo and Mejit.
	oceandots.com /pacific/marshall (293 words)

	Taongi Island: Statistics
		The southeast "ratak" or "sunrise" side of Taongi atoll has the vegetation covered islands that remain as high as 20 feet above sea level which is similar to the elevation of the capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro Atoll, some 425 miles south of Taongi.
		Taongi atoll is one of 30 atolls and 1,152 islands positioned among two archipelagic island chains -- the Ralik and Ratak Chains.
		Taongian defense is according to the Constitution of the Dominion of Melchizedek in joint cooperation with the Northern Ratak Authority.
	www.melchizedek.com /taongi/index_taongi.to.htm (1277 words)

	Marshall Islands Municipalities
		It also shows two chains of islands, which are a higher level of subdivision than the municipalities (i.e., each chain includes numerous municipalities).
		Chain: The atolls of the Marshall Islands lie in two rows, the Ralik
		chain (ISO code: L) to the west and the Ratak chain (T) to the east.
	www.statoids.com /ymh.html (357 words)

	EnenKio National Symbols
		The white ray stands for the Ratak Chain, the orange for the Ralik Chain; "sunrise" and "sunset" respectively.
		One shield (right side) contains the flag and shows a sunrise depicting the Ratak chain and the dawning of hope for liberation from foreign domination.
		The other shield contains blue and yellow, the colors of war, conflict, piracy, domination, the seeds of nature to destroy the spirit of the native people by "superior" and "benevolent" foreign armies, depriving them of their lands.
	www.enenkio.org /symbols.htm (479 words)

	Majuro -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		atoll in the Ratak (eastern) chain of the Marshall Islands and capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean.
		The official languages are Marshallese, or Kajin-Majol, and English, though use of the latter is not widespread.
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050217?tocId=9050217 (524 words)

	Jon G. O'Neill, Likiep Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands-- A Photo Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		However, with a third partner, Charles Ingalls, they continued to trade through the Ratak chain from their base on Likiep.
		Ingalls died in Honolulu sometime in the 1890s and his share of the business was transferred to the Jaluit Gesellschaft because Capelle and De Brum were unable to fund its purchase.
		Subsequently it was returned to them in a complicated long-term commercial arrangement involving trading operations in the Ratak chain.
	marshall.csu.edu.au /html/ONeill/Likiep.html (1544 words)

	Environment - HPO - Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The eastern group is the Ratak (Sunrise) Chain and the western is the Ralik (Sunset) Chain, which together extend about 700 miles (1,130 km) north to south and approximately 800 miles (1290 km) east to west.
		Underwater ocean maps show that there is also an abundance of underwater seamounts, some of which reach almost to the surface, such as Keats Bank east of Mili Atoll.
		Most of these guyots are aligned along the same axes as the Ralik and Ratak Chains, so that these underwater features as a whole have recently been termed Ralik and Ratak Ridge.
	www.alele.org /HP/environment1.html (433 words)

	OIA: Chapter 8
		The Ratak Chain consists of fourteen atolls and two islands, while the Ralik Chain consists of fifteen atolls and three islands.
		The capital of the Marshall Islands is in Majuro Atoll which is one of the atolls in the Ratak Chain.
		The other urban area is in the Ralik Chain, Ebeye Island, part of Kwajalein Atoll, many of whose other islands military forces of the U.S. Government have used since 1945.
	www.doi.gov /oia/StateIsland/chapter8.html (2586 words)

	Marshall Islands bed and breakfast inns \| Bed and Breakfast Center
		The Marshall islands form two vast parallel chains of atolls scattered over 750,000 square miles of the tranquil Central Pacific.
		The chains are called the Ratak (sunrise chain) and Ralik (sunset chain) and together, they encompass 29 atolls and 5 individual islands totaling abut 1,225 islands and 870 reef systems.
		The most important atoll of the Ralik chain is the Kwajalein atoll.
	www.bedandbreakfastcenter.com /search.cfm/r/139/t/m/World/Marshall-Islands.htm (316 words)

	Medical and Nursing jobs in Kwajalein - MedHunters
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands is made up of two north-south running island chains – the Ratak Chain to the east and the Ralik Chain to the west – which are located in the west central Pacific.
		These chains are comprised of 30 atolls (low-lying coral islands, each consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon) and 1,152 islets and...
		Kwajalein is located about 700 miles north of the equator, in the same general latitude as the southern Philippines and the same general longitude as the southern tip of New Zealand's South Island.
	www.medhunters.com /jobs/kw-mhl.html (249 words)

	Kingdom of EnenKio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Utilizing a format derived from the Marshallese Republic flag, yet distinct in its own right, the "royal" blue background, representing the vastness of Pacific Ocean waters surrounding the islands of EnenKio Atoll, is penetrated by two expanding diagonal "Rays" of color, depicting the two island chains of the Republic, our closest southern neighbor.
		A single white star, symbolizing Eneen-Kio Atoll, stands at the pinnacle of the archipelago, as a jewel in the "crown" of the Monarch, one of the most treasured atolls of his ancestral heritage of the King's 10 atolls in the Ratak chain.
		The white color in the star stands for the dawning of the light of justice, freedom, prosperity and truth.
	fotw.hostname.no-ip.org:8000 /flags/um!wake.html (352 words)

	Bokak Atoll - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bokak Atoll (also known as Taongi Atoll) is an is an uninhabited 3.2 square kilometer atoll located in the Pacific Ocean at 14°32' N, 169°00' E. It consists of eleven islands surrounding a 78 square kilometer lagoon.
		It is a member of the Marshall Islands and is located in the Ratak Chain.
		The first European to record discovering Bokak was Alonso de Salazar, a Spanish explorer, on August 21, 1526.
	www.free-definition.com /Bokak-Atoll.html (132 words)

	DigeratiCafe: Ratak Chain :Online Reference Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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	www.digeraticafe.com /reference/Ratak_Chain (135 words)

	Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For convenience, they are grouped into two chains: the Ratak Chain on the east, and the Ralik chain on the west.
		The Ratak (Sunrise) chain stretches from Mili to Taongi, and includes Majuro.
		The Ralik (Sunset) chain stretches from Ebon to Enewetak (Eniwetok).
	www.statoids.com /umh.html (191 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ratak Chain (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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	Search Results for Ratak - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Marshalls are composed of two parallel chains of coral atolls—the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the...
		The islands are coral caps set on the rims of submerged...
		Atoll (pop., 1999: 23,676) in the Ratak (eastern) chain of the...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Ratak&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (165 words)

	Irony of a Wave Hunt
		Throughout my years on Kwajalein, while we surfed our favorite spots, I always imagined the northeast atolls, the Ratak (Sunrise) chain, as having more consistent and epic waves – a little wave is steeper in the other atoll syndrome.
		Kwajalein on the other hand is located in the Ralik (Sunset) chain of the Marshall Islands tucked southwest of the Ratak chain.
		I surmised that these northeast atolls were responsible for blocking many swells from reaching Kwaj.
	www.svcherokee.com /pages/Bogerik.htm (950 words)

	Dominion of Melchizedek
		Claims to be an ecclesiastical and constitutional sovereignty inspired by the principles of the Melchizedek Bible.
		Consists of the Taongi Atoll, in the Ratak chain of the northern Marshall Islands, and Karitane Island, a previously unnamed island south of the territory of the Cook Islands.
		Dominion of Melchizedek - Claims to be an ecclesiastical and constitutional sovereignty inspired by the principles of the Melchizedek Bible.
	wolist.com /wo/society/issues/micronations/oceania-24243/375991.html (206 words)

	HyperWar: USMC Operations in WWII: Vol III--Central Pacific Drive [Chapter III-1]
		The Marshalls consist of two island chains, Ratak (Sunrise) in the east and Ralik (Sunset) in the west.
		Those of the greatest military importance by late 1943 were Mille, Maloelap, and Wotje in the Ratak chain, and in the Ralik chain, Jaluit, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok.
		In May 1943, at the Washington Conference, the CCS recommended to the Allied heads of state that an offensive be launched into the Marshalls.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/III/USMC-III-III-1.html (10179 words)

	Dominion of Melchizedek: Government Statistics
		Typhoons (known elsewhere as hurricanes or cyclones) seldom originate in or pass over this area, and gales are infrequent coming from the southeast when they occur.
		The southeast "ratak" or "sunrise" side of Taongi atoll has the vegetation covered islands that remain as high as 20 feet above sea level which is two times the elevation of the capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro Atoll, some 425 miles south of Taongi.
		Murjel Hermios, the recognized "Iroijlaplap" [king or paramount chief] and owner of the Northern Atolls of the Marshall Islands' Ratak Chain, grants a Special Power of Attorney to his adopted brother Robert Moore, wherein Mr.
	www.melchizedek.com /gvmtdocs/statistics.htm (3094 words)

	Partnering With Jaluit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands has two major atoll chains, the Ratak Chain and the Ralik Chain.
		Jaluit Atoll is in the southern part of the Ralik chain.
		There is no telephone service -- long-distance communication is accomplished by radio.
	www.tighar.org /Projects/Devastator/Jaluitneed.htm (689 words)

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		Atoll scrub, Casuarina; mangroves; windward and leeward atoll reefs (CRD) and lagoon.
		Plants: 44 native species, 81 introduced Birds: possible remnant population of Ducula oceanica ratakensis (Ratak Micronesian Pigeon) Indeterminate (RDB)
		Atoll scrub; windward and leeward atoll reefs and lagoon.
	islands.unep.ch /ILL.htm (420 words)

	Dirk H.R. Spennemann & Ian G. Marschner, Stormy Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Marshall Islands (Aelon Kein Ad), comprising 29 atolls and 5 islands, are located in the north-west equatorial Pacific, about 3790km west of Honolulu, about 2700km north of Fiji and 1500km east of Pohnpei.
		With the exception of the two northwestern atolls, Enewetak and Ujelang, the Marshall Islands are arranged in two island chains running roughly NNW to SSE: the western Ralik Chain and the eastern Ratak Chain (figure 1).
		Majuro Atoll, with its close neighbour, Arno Atoll, is located on the northern margin of the southern group of atolls of the Ratak Chain (or Ratak-rak).
	marshall.csu.edu.au /html/typhoon/Stormy_Years.html (9276 words)

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