Ujelang Atoll

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Ujelang Atoll is a remote coral atoll in the Marshall Islands, historically used as a relocation site for displaced islanders from other nuclear-affected atolls.

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Label Occurrences
Ujelang Atoll canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coral atoll
administeredBy Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
surface form: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (historical)

United Nations Trust Territory
surface form: United States (historical trusteeship)
affectedBy displacement due to nuclear testing
climate tropical marine
country Marshall Islands
distanceFromMajuro over 1000 kilometers west-northwest (approximate)
governedAs Ujelang Atoll municipality
governedBy local council (historical)
hasAccessMode by boat
by small aircraft (occasional, historical)
hasCapital Ujelang (village)
hasEcosystem coral reef ecosystem
hasHighestElevation approximately 3 meters above sea level
hasISOCode MH-UJA (local code, non-ISO standard)
hasLagoonArea approximately 185 square kilometers
hasLandArea approximately 1.7 square kilometers
hasNumberOfIslands approximately 30
hasReefType barrier reef
hasSettlement Ujelang (abandoned village)
hasVegetation coconut palms
tropical shrubs
hasWildlife crustaceans
marine fish
seabirds
historicalEra Cold War nuclear testing period
historicalUse relocation site for displaced islanders
locatedIn Pacific Ocean
Ralik Chain
locatedInRegion Micronesia
locatedInTimeZone UTC+12
locatedWestOf Bikini Atoll
Enewetak Atoll
nativeLanguage Marshallese
nearbyAtoll Bikini Atoll
Enewetak Atoll
partOf Marshall Islands
surface form: Republic of the Marshall Islands
partOfAdministrativeDivision Ralik Chain
surface form: Ralik Chain legislative district
partOfIslandGroup Marshall Islands
previouslyPopulatedBy Micronesians
surface form: Marshallese people
sovereignState Marshall Islands
uninhabited true
usedAsRelocationSiteDuring nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands
usedAsRelocationSiteFor Bikini Atoll inhabitants
Enewetak Atoll inhabitants
usedFor copra production (historical)
subsistence fishing (historical)
wasEvacuated 1980

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Ralik Chain hasPart Ujelang Atoll
Marshall Islands archipelago contains Ujelang Atoll