Ailinglaplap Atoll
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Ailinglaplap or Ailinglapalap is a coral atoll of 56 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain in the Marshall Islands. It is located 152 kilometres northwest o
NASA picture of Ailinglaplap Atoll
Marshall Islands
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The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an archipelagic country in Oceania. The sovereign state lies west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in t
Ailinglaplap Atoll
…Ailinglapalap (Marshallese: Aelōn̄ļapļap, ) is a coral atoll of 56 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain in the Marshall Islands. It is located 152 kilometres (94 mi) northwest of Jaluit Atoll. Its total land area is only 14.7 square kilometers (5.7 sq mi), but it encloses a…
Marshall Islanders sailing, with sails brailed (reefed), c. 1899–1900
A Marshallese stick chart. Most were made from a grid of coconut frond midribs with small shells representing the relative location of islands.
Manila Galleon in the Marianas and Carolines, c. 1590 Boxer Codex
Offices of the Pacific Navigation Co. at Jaluit Atoll in the late 1880s