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MARSHALL ISLANDS

Marshall Islands, also known More mapping was done by Russians Association. From 1948 to 1958, the US
as Majol is an island nation in in the early 1800s. U.S. and Hawaiian conducted nuclear tests on Bikini and
the Central Pacific Ocean. There missionaries began efforts to convert Enewetak Atolls. The USA continues to
are more than 1200 islands and the islanders in the mid 1800s, and be the protector of The Marshalls, and
islets in two parallel chains of even Germany had influence in the maintains a missile range and base on
coral atolls. islands in the late 1880s. Japan seized the island of Kwajalein.
the islands in 1914, and remained
Marshall Islands were settled around until the United States liberated the To get to the Marshall Islands, there
the beginning of the Christian era, Marshalls during WWII. From 1947 are two major airlines flying in daily,
some 2000 years ago by Micronesians. to 1986, the islands remained under United Airlines and Nauru Airlines. Air
The islands were later sighted by a the jurisdiction of the United States. Marshalls fly routes between the Atolls
Spanish navigator in 1529. British Then it became the Republic of the in small commuter propeller planes.
naval captains explored the Marshall Marshall Islands, and remains friends The only two islands that have an
Islands in 1788 and did some mapping. of the USA with a Compact of Free international airport are Majuro and

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