Ailinginae Atoll
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The average temperature of these islands is about Script error: No such module "convert". during daytime and slightly warmer during night-time due to cold weather associated with rain showers during daytime. The rainy season is from September through November. The island is covered with 29 species of plants[2] scrub, grasses and some stands of Pisonia grandis trees.
History
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The first sighting recorded by Europeans was by the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Saavedra on 1 January 1528. Together with Utirik Atoll and Rongelap Atoll, they were charted as Islas de los Reyes (Islands of the Three Wise Kings in Spanish) due to the proximity of Epiphany[3]
Ailinginae Atoll was claimed by the German Empire along with the rest of the Marshall Islands in 1885.[4] After World War I, the island came under the South Seas Mandate of the Empire of Japan. Following the end of World War II, it came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986. Ailinginae Atoll has been uninhabited since 1954 when the few islanders were evacuated due to nuclear fallout fears from the Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll to the northwest.
See also
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- Also contaminated by Castle Bravo test: Rongelap Atoll, Utirik Atoll, Rongerik Atoll
- Desert island
- List of islands
References
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- ↑ Marshallese-English Dictionary - Place Name Index
- ↑ Releford, Jodi Stevens;Stevens, Jonathan;Bridges, K. W.;McClatchey, Will C.Flora of Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls, Republic of the Marshall Islands [https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8006[
- ↑ Brand, Donald D. The Pacific Basin: A History of its Geographical Explorations The American Geographical Society, New York, 1967, p.121
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External links
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- Marshall Islands site
- Map of Ailinginae Atoll 1893
- Geography of the Marshall Islands, including Ailinginae Atoll
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