Fallout plume of 1954 nuclear test extending over Rongelap Atoll (centre). "Estimated total (accumulated) dose contours in rads at 96 hours after the BRAVO test explosion."[2]NASA astronaut photography image of Rongelap Atoll.
Rongelap Atoll/ˈrɒŋɡəlæp/RONG-gə-lap (Marshallese: Ron̄ļap, [rʷɔŋʷ(ɔ)lˠɑpʲ][3]) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 61 islands (or motus) in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is 8 square miles (21 km2). It encloses a lagoon with an area of 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2). It is historically notable for its close proximity to US hydrogen bomb tests in 1954, and was particularly devastated by fallout from the Castle Bravo test. The population asked the US to move them (several times) from Rongelap following the test due to high radiation levels with no success so they asked global environmental group Greenpeace to help. The Rainbow Warrior made four trips moving the islanders, their possessions and their homes to the island of Mejato in the Kwajalein Atoll, 180 kilometers away.
^"Republic of the Marshall Islands 2021 Census Report, Volume 1: Basic Tables and Administrative Report" (PDF). Pacific Community (SPC): Statistics for Development Division. Pacific Community. May 30, 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
^Glasstone, Samuel; Dolan, Philip J. (1977). The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (3rd ed.). U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. pp. 436–437. (page 436.) 9.107 A radiation dose of 700 rads over a period of 96 hours would probably prove fatal in the great majority of cases.
^"Marshallese-English Dictionary - Place Name Index". www.trussel2.com.
RongelapAtoll /ˈrɒŋɡəlæp/ RONG-gə-lap (Marshallese: Ron̄ļap, [rʷɔŋʷ(ɔ)lˠɑpʲ]) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 61 islands (or motus) in the Pacific Ocean...
the RongelapAtoll, which was subject to nuclear contamination after the test of the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb in 1954. In 1991, he and the Rongelap People...
Rongelap Airport is a public use airstrip at Rongelap on RongelapAtoll, Marshall Islands. Rongelap Airport has one runway measuring 3,950 x 100 ft (1...
across the inhabited islands of the Rongelap, Rongerik, and Utrik Atolls. The inhabitants of Rongelap and Rongerik Atolls were evacuated by servicemen two...
District. Ailinginae Atoll and Rongerik Atoll traditionally belong to RongelapAtoll Erikub Atoll belongs to the people of Wotja Atoll Jemo Island belongs...
Islands portal Also contaminated by Castle Bravo test: RongelapAtoll, Utirik Atoll, Ailinginae Atoll Desert island List of islands Marshallese-English Dictionary...
91 sq mi). It is located approximately 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) west of RongelapAtoll. The landscape is low-lying with only the top 3 meters (9.8 ft) above...
board the ship Florida on 29 December 1527. Together with Rongelap, Ailinginae and Toke atolls, they were charted as Islas de los Reyes (Islands of the...
Bikini Atoll, there was international concern over the radioactive fallout experienced by residents of nearby RongelapAtoll and Utirik Atoll and by the...
Bikini Atoll on 1 March 1954. The detonation unexpectedly rained nuclear fallout and two inches (50 mm) of radioactive snow on nearby RongelapAtoll, which...
against nuclear testing. After relocating 300 Marshall Islanders from RongelapAtoll, which had been polluted by radioactive fallout by past American nuclear...
persons exposed in 1954 on RongelapAtoll and Ailinginae Atoll, 10% (2.4% to 22%) for 157 persons exposed on Utirik Atoll, and 2.2% (0.5% to 4.8%) and...
operates flights to Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, RongelapAtoll and Jeh and Woja on Ailinglaplap Atoll. The flight schedule has most...
house of RMI's unicameral legislature, the Nitijela. (Majuro, the capital atoll, elects five senators.) The President, who is head of state as well as head...
James Matayoshi (born 1968) is the mayor of RongelapAtoll in the Marshall Islands. He was appointed as Rongelap's mayor in 1995 and has served as chairman...
contaminated crushed calcined coral, fell for about 12 hours upon the RongelapAtoll, depositing a layer of up to 2 cm. Residents developed beta burns, mostly...
Unanticipated winds carried lethal doses of Castle Bravo fallout over the RongelapAtoll, forcing its evacuation. The crew of Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a Japanese...
bomb test in the Marshall Islands was such that the inhabitants of the RongelapAtoll were forced to abandon their island. Three years later the islanders...
of residents of RongelapAtoll, who were victims of nuclear fallout stemming from the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1954. Eknilang...
branching scleractinian corals. It is only known from the lagoon of RongelapAtoll in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean. This coral forms colonies up...
was instrumental for 'Operation Exodus', the evacuation of about 300 RongelapAtoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from...
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