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
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
Compact of Free Association
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The Compacts of Free Association are international agreements establishing and governing the relationships of free association between the United States and the three Pacific Island sovereign states o
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…the Marshall Islands independence by recognizing its constitution and president, Amata Kabua. Full sovereignty or self-government was achieved in a Compact of Free Association with the United States. The Marshall Islands has been a member of the Pacific Community (PC) since 1983 and a United Nations member state since 1991…
Representatives of the Compact states meeting in Kolonia, Micronesia, in August 2019. Left to right: U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo, Micronesian president David Panuelo, Marshallese president Hilda Heine, and Palauan vice president Raynold Oilouch
The USCGC Oliver Berry and the RMIS Lomor on a joint patrol